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GP2 Hungaroring: Red Bull's Gasly converts practice pace into pole

Red Bull Formula 1 junior Pierre Gasly stormed to pole position for the Hungaroring GP2 opener with Prema

The team sat back in the pits as rivals squabbled over provisional pole in the early minutes.

Then Gasly emerged and backed up his commanding practice pace with a 1m25.662s lap that put him 0.685 seconds clear of previous benchmark Sergey Sirotkin.

Renault's Russian F1 tester Sirotkin managed to close in a touch later on, but Gasly trimmed a further 0.060s off his time to emphasise his advantage.

He then went faster still through the first sector of a subsequent lap that faded.

Sirotkin held onto second, his ART car in a Prema sandwich between Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi.

That symmetry was completed by Sirotkin's team-mate Nobuharu Matsushita in fourth.

Norman Nato and Luca Ghiotto filled the remaining top six places, with 2014 Hungaroring GP2 winner Arthur Pic next up.

Championship leader Oliver Rowland had his worst qualifying performance of the year so far and was only 17th, three places behind fellow struggling title contender Mitch Evans.

Alex Lynn was among the frontrunners early on, then went for his second run in the mid-session lull while most others were in the pits.

While last year that tactic delivered a pole that set him up for Saturday victory, this time he made an error and had a time deleted for a track limits infringement, so lines up only 11th.

QUALIFYING RESULTS:

Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 1m25.612s - 9
2 Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 1m26.182s 0.570s 12
3 Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 1m26.438s 0.826s 10
4 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1m26.483s 0.871s 12
5 Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1m26.521s 0.909s 11
6 Luca Ghiotto Trident 1m26.557s 0.945s 12
7 Arthur Pic Rapax 1m26.633s 1.021s 11
8 Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME 1m26.657s 1.045s 11
9 Jordan King Racing Engineering 1m26.667s 1.055s 11
10 Marvin Kirchhofer Carlin 1m26.696s 1.084s 11
11 Alex Lynn DAMS 1m26.795s 1.183s 11
12 Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1m26.819s 1.207s 10
13 Gustav Malja Rapax 1m26.911s 1.299s 12
14 Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing 1m26.966s 1.354s 11
15 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 1m27.068s 1.456s 11
16 Sergio Canamasas Carlin 1m27.078s 1.466s 11
17 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1m27.176s 1.564s 11
18 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 1m27.207s 1.595s 11
19 Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing 1m27.246s 1.634s 10
20 Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 1m27.908s 2.296s 12
21 Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1m28.119s 2.507s 12
22 Philo Paz Armand Trident 1m28.415s 2.803s 11

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