One of the most famous circuit’s in the world, Monza, is the venue for this weekend’s GP2 Series races, round nine of the 2016 Championship and the Racing Engineering team and their two drivers, Norman Nato and Jordan King, are looking forward to the challenges of the Italian circuit where Racing Engineering won the Feature Race in 2015. For Norman the last round at Spa Francorchamps was a disappointment, a retirement in the Saturday race meant that he had to start 21st and although he drove as quickly as ever he was only able to move up to 8th and score a single point. Jordan took an excellent second place on Saturday but, although he finished 7th on the road, a post-race penalty dropped him to 12th. However so close is the 2016 Championship both men are still in contention for the Drivers’ Championship with Jordan lying 6th and Norman 8th.

The venue for this weekend is the historic circuit of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy. This exciting 5.793km track, built nearly ninety years ago, has been the location for the Italian Grand Prix for every race since 1922 (except for 1980). Famed for its long straights and legendary high speed corners such as the Curva Parabolica, Curva di Lesmo and Variante Ascari, Monza has been the site of some of the closest finishes in the history of Grand Prix racing.

Pirelli will be providing the P Zero White medium and the P Zero Yellow soft compound tyres this weekend. The cars run low downforce at Monza, in order maximise top speed on the long straights, so that mechanical rather than aerodynamic grip is key when it comes to direction changes. The Monza circuit asks a lot from the tyres with the first chicane requiring heavy braking, the Variante Ascari and its rapid changes of direction and the famous Parabolica: a long and open corner that generates high lateral forces.

Timetable:Practice: Fri 02 Sep 2016, 12:00 (GMT+2)Qualifying Session: Fri 02 Sep 2016, 15:55 (GMT+2)Race 1: Sat 03 Sep 2016, 15:40 (GMT+2)Race 2: Sun 04 Sep 2016, 10:25 (GMT+2)