Bumpy start to GP2 season

Though the return of Mikhail Aleshin is no doubt great news for both Carlin and the series, it highlights the great difficulties that teams are having to put a full season together with decent budgets.

Carlin may have, for now, avoided to start the season off on the wrong foot, but I would not be surprised if the Aleshin deal has more problems as the season wears on.    Other teams with outwardly clear issues are Super Nova (of which I wrote extensively last season) and Ocean, whose owners may be finding that running a profitable team together may be much more difficult than initially expected.

Up at the top, no problems for the series star teams, with full or nearly-full budgets as usual.

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