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Silverstone, Great Britain: India's Karun Chandhok scored a sensational podium finish in Saturday's GP2 feature race at Silverstone, after a storming drive to finish third from tenth on the grid in his iSport International car.
The 24-year-old from Chennai added to his previous podium finish this year (at another classic track, Monaco) with a stunning performance that included a vast array of passing manoeuvres. Chandhok is a regular visitor to Dubai for races and testing at the Dubai Autodrome.
"That has to be my best race ever in GP2," said Chandhok, who is already a winner in Formula 1's feeder formula after his victory at Spa-Francorchamps last year.
"My pace was really quick today. Considering it's meant to be difficult to overtake around Silverstone, I don't think I did too bad - I passed more cars in one day than I have all season!"
Chandhok gained one position at the start, when Mike Conway made a poor start, forcing Karun to swerve around his stranded car, and then began to carve his way through the field.
Leaving others behind
He passed Toyota F1 protégé Kamui Kobayashi at the Abbey chicane, Andy Soucek around the outside of the dauntingly-fast Stowe corner, Luca Filippi at Brooklands, Andi Zuber at Club, GP2 Asia champion Romain Grosjean at Brooklands and team-mate Bruno Senna during the pitstops.
"Apart from Giorgio Pantano, who won the race, we were faster than everyone else," said Karun.
It was such a great race to be involved with, there was so much going on, and it was brilliant to stand on the Silverstone podium."
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