The busy month of July ends this weekend with the GP2 paddock setting up at Hockenheim for the seventh round of the season. With last week's pole position and win in the Feature Race under his belt; Pierre Gasly is now the new Series leader.

The Frenchman has been consistent since the start of the season and seems on a mission to fly to his first GP2 crown. But his main rival is none other than his teammate Antonio Giovinazzi. The rookie has had been very reliable and has had a strong GP2 season so far only failing to score points in the first two rounds.

Since then, the PREMA Racing driver has pocketed two wins and he is frequently in the top 5. Both of them will also have to keep an eye on Raffaele Marciello. The Italian is the only driver to have scored points in eleven races out of twelve but has yet to win a race.

Behind this consistent top three, we have the MP Motorsport's Oliver Rowland who has finished on the podium and the Racing Engineering pair who are eager to repeat their top form from the past few rounds and be at the top of the standings. 27 points covers the top five from Gasly to Jordan King. Without forgetting our 2014 Hockenheim race winner Mitch Evans who is now seventh in the drivers' standings and is ready to repeat his winning weekend from two years ago.

Pirelli have selected Medium and Soft compounds for this event. It will be important to look after the tyres as there is lots of acceleration out of the slow corners. The track surface in Hockenheim is quite smooth which helps to limit wear and degradation but braking will be a key aspect. The tyres are subject to maximum deceleration.

Last time, the GP2 Series raced in Hockenheim was in 2014. At that time, Mitch Evans (RUSSIAN TIME) won the Feature Race and Stefano Coletti (Racing Engineering) the Sprint Race.

In 2014, The best laptime in qualifying was set by Jolyon Palmer (DAMS) in a 1:23.383.

There will be one driver change this week as Rene Binder moves to Carlin to replace Sergio Canamasas.

After he won the Budapest Feature Race, Pierre Gasly (PREMA Racing) is now leading the Series with 107 points, 11 points ahead of his
teammate Antonio Giovinazzi.

Pierre Gasly is the second driver to win a race this season from pole position (the first one was Antonio Giovinazzi in Baku Feature Race).

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Drivers Standings after Hungary

Pos	Name	Nat	Team	Points
1	Gasly	FRA	Prema Racing	107
2	Giovinazzi	ITA	Prema Racing	96
3	Marciello	ITA	Russian Time	85
4	Rowland	GBR	MP Motorsport	83
5	Nato	FRA	Racing Engineering	81
6	King	GBR	Racing Engineering	80
7	Evans	NZL	Pertamina Campos Racing	77
8	Sirotkin	RUS	ART Grand Prix	70
9	Markelov	RUS	Russian Time	65
10	Matsushita	JPN	ART Grand Prix	56
11	Lynn	GBR	DAMS	51
12	Ghiotto	ITA	Trident	38
13	Gelael	INO	Pertamina Campos Racing	24
14	Latifi	CAN	DAMS	21
15	Kirchhofer	GER	Carlin	19
16	Canamasas	GBR	Carlin	14
17	Pic	FRA	Rapax	14
18	Eriksson	SWE	Arden International	10
19	de Jong	NED	MP Motorsport	6
20	Malja	SWE	Rapax	3
21	Jeffri	MAS	Arden International	2

Team standings after Hungary

Pos	Team	Points
1	Prema Racing	203
2	Racing Engineering	161
3	Russian Time	150
4	ART Grand Prix	126
5	Pertamina Campos Racing	101
6	MP Motorsport	89
7	DAMS	72
8	Trident	38
9	Carlin	33
10	Rapax	17
11	Arden International	12