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Like team-mate Jerome D’Ambrosio, it was a season of frustration for Loic Duval, although a decent end to the season meant he at least won the inter-team bragging rights.
The fact that Duval ended the season having scored two Visa Fastest Laps despite not having a car that was anywhere near the fastest, demonstrates how he season was interrupted by technical issues.
On both occasions, Duval’s car had stopped on track, leaving him with nothing else to play for aside from the fastest lap bonus point.
The team made a breakthrough in Berlin – where more tech woes left Duval once again searching for fastest lap – and this resulted in Duval delivering his and the team’s best result of the season with a well-judged run to fifth in New York.
That was his first top-10 finish since he beat D’Ambrosio in a wheel-to-wheel entertaining battle in Buenos Aires, in which he finished sixth. His best qualifying came in the penultimate race in Montreal, where for the only time in the season he cracked the top 10.
Perhaps fittingly after picking up a drive-through penalty for his role in an accident with Nick Heidfeld, he then focused on setting the Visa Fastest Lap, which he secured by a couple of tenths.