Kamui Kobayashi participates at the GP2 series and GP2 asian series for the season 2008.
The most of GP2 races 2008 are held as Concurrent event with F1.
The specifications for the machine is very close to F1.
Many of F1 drivers such as LEWIS HAMILTON, NICO ROSBERG, HEIKKI KOVALAINEN, TIMO GLOCK, NELSON PIQUET JUNIOR, and KAZUKI NAKAJIMA, participated in GP2 races as the steppingstone to be a F1 driver.
The GP2 series mainly take places in Europe, and the GP2 Asian series take places in Asia .