Bruno Senna collected a single point from the weekend's GP2 Asia Series event at Sepang, seriously denting his championship ambitions, but the Brazilian still tried to find crumbs of comfort from his performance.
Making his debut at the Malaysian circuit, Senna set the fourth fastest lap in qualifying and was then handed an advantage at the start of Saturday's 34-lap feature race when iSport team-mate Karun Chandhok stalled at the start of the warm-up lap. When pole-sitter Romain Grosjean did exactly the same at the start, Senna powered down the inside of Adrian Valles to take the lead before the first corner, but his own race as soon to be compromised as a sudden shower meant that he was the first to hit the wet track.
Locking up and sliding wide, he lost positions and dropped to ninth, and then saw the race red-flagged on lap two after further accidents in the treacherous conditions. Restarting from ninth half an hour later, Senna himself stalled as the result of an overheating car and had to rejoin from the pit-lane. When he got going, he showed real pace but, pushing hard, hit a bump in the braking area for turn one and spun off track into the gravel trap.
"It's just a really frustrating day after qualifying well and being in the lead on the first lap," he sighed, "After the race was restarted, I could never have caught the frontrunners as I was already about three-quarters of a lap behind, so all I could do was push to the maximum. We were showing fantastic pace, but I just hit the bump into turn one and couldn't do anything to get out of the gravel."
![Bruno Senna spins the iSport International car at Sepang [pic credit: GP2 Series]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/419513.jpg)
