Fisichella Motor Sport International - Andreas Zuber (2nd) Luiz Razia (DNF)

Andreas Zuber and Luiz Razia took to the track this weekend for Fisichella Motor Sport International at the Silverstone circuit in the UK for round four of the 2009 GP2 Series. The Italian squad returned to successful ways as Zuber picked up a podium in Sunday's sprint race, finishing in second place.

Silverstone is a circuit much loved by drivers due to its high-speed, fast flowing nature. The first sector is particularly quick, with drivers finding a real challenge. Free practice and qualifying took place on Friday, with the 36-lap feature race at 3pm on Saturday and the 24-lap sprint on Sunday morning at 9.30am.

Andreas Zuber: Andreas had a strong start to the weekend, finishing second fastest in practice, with a quickest lap was 1:27.025. Unfortunately he had problems with traffic in qualifying, which made it difficult to seize his full potential and set a time of 1:27.106, to line up 16th on the grid for the feature. In Saturday's race he made an excellent start and raced strongly, eventually crossing the line in 8th, picking up a point and pole position for Sunday's race. At the start of the sprint he was jumped by Pastor Maldonado, but maintained a strong second position until the chequered flag, stepping onto the podium once again for FMSI.

Luiz Razia: Luiz finished 22nd in Friday's practice session, setting a fastest time of 1:29.218 and completed a total of 13 laps of testing. Razia also suffered from traffic on his qualifying runs, and had to settle for starting 23rd for the feature after recording a lap of 1.28.789. He had a steady feature race, moving up three positions to finish in 20th. Starting from the tenth row in the sprint, he was progressing well until he was hit on the straight by Dani Clos, putting an end to his race.

Paolo Coloni, Team Principal, FMSI: We are really pleased with today's podium result for Andi. We could say we were disappointed to lose the race as we started on pole, but Maldonado made a fantastic start. After that both drivers drove a very good race and pushed hard so we are pleased. I've been amazed at the performance of our car this weekend and am delighted with the strong form. We were unlucky with traffic in qualifying so we had to cope with that but we are getting better and stronger. I'm sad for what happened to Luiz today. It has not been a lucky weekend for him but he has shown he is progressing and I'm sure he will be there at the next race. It's all looking positive.

Ocean Racing Technology - Karun Chandhok (3rd) Alvaro Parente (11th)

The Portuguese team in the GP2 Main Series championship secured its first podium 'courtesy of Karun Chandhok this morning on the Silverstone circuit in England which hosted the 4th round of the season this weekend. The team, directed by Tiago Monteiro and Jose Guedes, could finally translate their performance level into a strong result, confirming the potential displayed since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, Alvaro Parente fought his way gallantly up through the field to finish in eleventh place after starting on the last row of the grid.

With two points finishes and a podium, the Silverstone result shows that Ocean Racing Technology has all necessary qualities to fight regularly with the front runners.

Karun Chandhok's third place is the fruit of some excellent work carried out by the Indian racer yesterday when he finished the first race in sixth place. "It was a good race and I'm delighted to give the team its first podium. To fight for the win would have been complicated because the guys ahead of me were faster today. The team deserves this result and I hope the next step will be a victory," Karun declared.

Meanwhile, teammate Alvaro Parente knew that starting from last place on the grid, a result of his contact with Vitaly Petrov in the first race, would make a points finish virtually impossible. "I made a good start and I gradually made up several positions until I was in 11th. Once again I found Vitaly Petrov in my path but he defended himself really well. I did what I could."

For José Guedes and Tiago Monteiro, the Silverstone podium is... "A result that was well deserved and coming for a while. We always proved that we have what it takes to get good results and even fight for the win. This result is a reward for the team's hard work, from the technical team to the drivers. Every member plays an important role in the performance of our cars. We hope that this result will mark the end of our misfortunes. Congratulations to Karun for this podium and to Alvaro for a great comeback."

DAMS - Jerome d'Ambrosio (12th) Kamui Kobayashi (17th)

This weekend DAMS raced in the fourth round of the 2009 GP2 Series Championship on the Silverstone circuit in Great Britain. After a qualifying session marked by a big improvement in performance, the team tackled the first event in an optimistic frame of mind. Unfortunately, race incidents dashed their hopes.

On the first lap Kamui Kobayashi (10th on the grid) had to retire after a collision while Jerome d'Ambrosio in 4th place stalled. He restarted at the back of the field and his hopes of a podium finish that had looked on the cards, were dashed.

These disappointing performances in the first round prevented the DAMS' drivers from starting race 2 from high up on the grid. Jerome and Kamui set off in 19th and 25th positions respectively and were unable to perform miracles in the short event. The Belgian driver showed that he had the pace to fight at the front this weekend.