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Three Drivers Given Time Penalties

Twenty five seconds were added to the race time of Olivier Pla, Ferdinando Monfardini and Can Artam as a result of technical infringements during race two in Istanbul today

The time penalties were handed to the drivers because they failed to have all four tyres on their cars with five minutes remaining before the start of the race, as specified in the rules.

The race was due to start at 11:00 local time but was delayed by fifteen minutes after rain started just before the race was due to start, so as to allow the team to modify their set ups to run in the wet.

But despite the delay, the three drivers did not have all four tyres on their cars five minutes before the new start time.

Monfardini is unaffected by the penalty as he was classified last, while Artam and Pla each move back one place, to sixteenth and seventeenth respectively.

Pla's two points for setting fastest lap were unaffected, and no changes were made to the Championship standings.

Revised results of Race Two in Istanbul:

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Driver       Team                      Time
 1.  Kovalainen   Arden International       43:48.581
 2.  Carroll      Super Nova International  +   7.985
 3.  Rosberg      ART Grand Prix            +   8.556
 4.  Speed        iSport International      +   9.328
 5.  Garcia       Racing Engineering        +  11.341
 6.  Piquet Jr.   Hitech Piquet Sports      +  18.360
 7.  Lopez        DAMS                      +  21.618
 8.  Pantano      Super Nova International  +  24.032
 9.  Bruni        Coloni Motorsport         +  25.718
10.  Yoshimoto    BCN Competicion           +  34.197
11.  Piccione     Durango                   +  39.720
12.  Viso         BCN Competicion           +  39.750
13.  Lapierre     Arden International       +  40.095
14.  Premat       ART Grand Prix            +1:03.412
15.  Fauzy        DAMS                      +1:17.374
16.  Artam        iSport International      +1:28.799
17.  Pla          DPR                       +1:30.662
18.  Lauda        Coloni Motorsport         +   1 Lap
19.  Negrao       Hitech Piquet Sports      +   1 Lap
20.  Hernandez    Campos Racing             +  3 Laps

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Driver       Team                   On Lap
     Monfardini   Durango                  18
     Jani         Racing Engineering       14
     Alvarez      Campos Racing            10
     Mondini      DPR                       2

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