GP2 » GP2 Driver of the Year vote: 6th

21 December 2012
You voted Esteban Gutiérrez into 6th place in Crash.net's GP2 Driver of the Year poll!
GP2 Driver of the Year vote: 6th
Top 10 GP2 Driver of the Year 2012:
6. Esteban Gutiérrez

Birthplace: Monterrey, Mexico
Birthdate: August 5, 1991
Team: Lotus GP
2012 starts: 24
Poles: 0
Wins: 3
Podiums: 7
Fastest laps: 5
Championship points: 176
Championship position: 3rd
Crash.net GP2 Driver of 2011 position: 3rd

Ever since the start of the season, Esteban Gutiérrez has been walking around the paddock with the confident look of someone who knows that no matter what happened in 2012, Grand Prix stardom was just around the corner. And that's just what ended up happening, with Sauber calling him up to replace compatriot Sergio Perez in F1 in 2013.

You'd have thought that this would have given Gutiérrez the boost to really go for glory in the GP2 championship this year, but he never did quite live up to the expectations we had for him when he arrived in the feeder series after winning the inaugural GP3 championship in 2010. Indeed, there were points when he was looking embarrassingly overshadowed by his Lotus GP rookie team mate James Calado this season.

But Gutiérrez did come good in the end and finished the year with a consistent run of races just as Calado ran out of steam, which was enough to see him slip through and clinch third place in the final standings. Crash.net voters aren't so easily swayed, though, and have indicated that they expected just a little bit more from the Mexican this year for him to genuinely have earned his way into an F1 seat.

Top 10 GP2 Driver of the Year 2012 results so far:
5. Luca Filippi
6. Esteban Gutiérrez
7. Giedo van der Garde
8. Tom Dillmann
9. Max Chilton
10. Marcus Ericsson

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Related Pictures

Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) celebrates his victory in the Hungary sprint race. (World Copyright: Alastair Staley/GP2 Media Service)
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) celebrates his victory in the Hungary sprint race on the podium. (World Copyright: Andrew Ferraro/GP2 Media Service)
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) celebrates his race win. Round 6. Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia, Spain. June 23 2012 (Photo: Daniel Kalisz/GP2 Media Service.)
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) in the cockpit for the start of the second day of testing at Jerez, Spain on February 29, 2012. [Picture Credit: Daniel Kalisz/GP2 Media Service]
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) during day 3 of testing at Barcelona, Spain. Thursday 8th March 2012. [World Copyright: Alastair Staley/GP2 Series Media Service.]
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX, Lotus GP) celebrates his victory on the podium. Round 6. Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia, Spain. June 23 2012 (Photo: Daniel Kalisz/GP2 Media Service.)

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