Wickens fastest, Ricciardo on pole

ISR's Daniel Ricciardo is promoted into pole at Wickens' expense after finishing 0.170s adrift of the Canadian. Ricciardo had a tough start to the day after being excluded from this morning's qualifying session for a technical infringement.

Championship leader Jean-Eric Vergne will join Ricciardo on the front row in the second Carlin entry.

Kevin Korjus equalled his first qualifying result of fourth for Tech 1 Racing and will be aiming to repeat his race one victory. Spaniard Albert Costa bounced back from an eventful first race to secure fifth. The Epic Racing driver damaged the front wing of his car in this afternoon's encounter when Daniel Zampieri's BVM Target machine cut across his bows at the first chicane.

The only Italian driver in the field, Zampieri has not shone on home ground. An engine problem caused his retirement in race one and the pre-season Monza test pace-setter again complained of a down on power engine this afternoon.

Frenchman Arthur Pic (Tech 1) completed the top-six. Pic was another driver to be pleased with a fresh opportunity to prove his worth after becoming entangled in an incident with Jan Charouz at the Parabolica in race one.

Nelson Panciatici was able to take to the track after sitting out of race one with engine maladies. His KMP Racing crew fitted a new engine for this afternoon's session.

The session was once again extremely closely contested, with the first 19 drivers covered by a second.

Pos  Driver               Team             Time       Gap
 1.  Daniel Ricciardo     ISR              1m37.040s  + 0.170  
 2.  Jean-Eric Vergne     Carlin           1m37.122s  + 0.252  
 3.  Kevin Korjus         Tech 1           1m37.140s  + 0.270  
 4.  Albert Costa         EPIC             1m37.175s  + 0.305  
*5.  Robert Wickens       Carlin           1m36.870s           
 6.  Arthur Pic           Tech 1           1m37.191s  + 0.321  
 7.  Alexander Rossi      Fortec           1m37.195s  + 0.325  
 8.  Sergio Canamasas     BVM Target       1m37.252s  + 0.382  
 9.  Cesar Ramos          Fortec           1m37.316s  + 0.446  
10.  Brendon Hartley      Gravity-Charouz  1m37.366s  + 0.496  
11.  Nathanael Berthon    ISR              1m37.378s  + 0.508  
12.  Daniil Move          P1               1m37.436s  + 0.566  
13.  Stephane Richelmi    Draco            1m37.452s  + 0.582  
14.  Oliver Webb          Pons             1m37.649s  + 0.779  
15.  Anton Nebylitskiy    KMP              1m37.714s  + 0.844  
16.  Chris van der Drift  Mofaz            1m37.788s  + 0.918  
17.  Jan Charouz          Gravity-Charouz  1m37.819s  + 0.949  
18.  Sten Pentus          EPIC             1m37.839s  + 0.969  
19.  Nelson Panciatici    KMP              1m37.847s  + 0.977  
20.  Walter Grubmuller    P1               1m37.876s  + 1.006  
21.  Daniel McKenzie      Comtec           1m37.964s  + 1.094  
22.  Daniel de Jong       Comtec           1m38.155s  + 1.285  
23.  Andre Negrao         Draco            1m38.199s  + 1.329  
24.  Jake Rosenzweig      Mofaz            1m38.301s  + 1.431  
25.  Filip Salaquarda     Pons             1m38.394s  + 1.524  
26.  Daniel Zampieri      BVM Target       1m38.415s  + 1.545  

* Wickens penalised four places for causing avoidable accident in Race 1