Vitaly Petrov and Ben Hanley will be the drivers which Campos Grand Prix will race the next GP2 Series season, that will start next April 26 in Barcelona. For the new GP2 Asia Series, which January 25 will start in Dubai, the Brazilian Diego Nunes will be join the team as mate of Petrov.

For the Russian, will be his second season in the rows of Spanish team, with which he will dispute both championships, and for Hanley, who belongs to the prestigious program of Renault Development Driver (RDD), it will suppose his debut in a championship to which he comes after proclaiming a Vice Champion of the World Series by Renault in 2007.  Diego Nunes will be making also his debut in the GP2, category to which the jump gives as Vice Champion of the Euroseries 3000.

Petrov finished the GP2 Series in 2007 in thirteenth position, with big performances as the victory obtained in Valencia, where Campos Grand Prix obtained a great doublet. The Russian, of 23 years old, made debut in the category in 2006 after completing the last four events of the season, which he also competed in the Euroseries 3000, championship  that he finished in the third position with four victories.

Ben Hanley, who he´ll be 23 years on January 22, already tested the  Campos Grand Prix car in Paul Ricard's tests has obtained six podiums in the World Series, with two included victories, which given him the vice champion. The British RDD driver, gave the jump to the single-seater in 2005 after several years in Karting when disputed the Italian championship of Formula Renault 2.0, where he achieved nine podiums and six victories to give the jump on the year following the World Series, where in his) first season it he  achieved a victory.

Nunes makes debut in a category to which he comes as Vice Champion of the Euroseries 3000, where he obtained ten podiums, with four included victories The 21-year-old brazilian made début in this category in 2006, season in which he disputed the Formula 3 South American, that he finished in third position with three included victories. Before this championship, in which also he was present in 2005, Nunes disputed the Formula Renault in Brazil. Nunes had the opportunity to drive the GP2 in the tests of last November.

GP2 Series has eleven events, the first one of them in Barcelona on April 26 and 27, later to close the championship in Italy on September 13 and 14. .GP2 Asia Series, which are disputed by the cars that have been protagonists of the first triennium of the GP2 Series, will consist of a whole of five appointments, two of them close to the Formula 1, (Malaysia and Bahrain). The championship will start on January 25 and 26 in Dubai and after visiting Indonesia (February 16 and 17), Malaysia (March 22 and 23), and Qatar (April 5 and 6), will return to Dubai to finish the championship on April 11 and 12. 

Petrov and Nunes will be present in the first official tests of the Asia Series, on January 18 and 19 in Dubai. Hanley will be making his debut with the new car together Petrov in Paul Ricard's test on February 28 and 29.

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