Glock storms to Barcelona pole
Timo Glock has been the man to beat around Barcelona in a GP2 car this weekend, but he rammed home his advantage in emphatic fashion in qualifying, outpacing the field by almost four tenths of a second
His biggest challenge came, predictably enough, from his iSport teammate Andreas Zuber. And while the Austrian held sway in the early stages, thrice recording times to keep him at the top of the pile, Glock was biding his time.
As the session neared its end, Glock pulled out a 1:27.713 lap to beat Zuber's best.
Third fastest, but not third on the grid, was Giorgio Pantano. The Campos Racing man was too quick under yellows for the stewards' liking this morning, so his five-place grid penalty scuppered his third fastest time, so he'll start eighth.
Even without taking Pantano's penalty into account, Glock's time was nearly eight-tenths faster than the first non-iSport car.
Promoted to best of the rest was ART's Lucas di Grassi, who looked ragged on his way to a 1:28.681 best, just outpacing DAMS' Kazuki Nakajima. But the Japanese will be hit with a 10-place grid penalty for shunting Ho-Pin Tung out of the sprint race in Bahrain, dropping him to 15th.
After the penalties, DAMS teammate Nicolas Lapierre was elevated to fourth from sixth on the grid.
However, he shunted in huge fashion at the high-speed Campsa right-hander, smacking the tyre wall hard with the rear of his car. Fortunately, given his back injury of last year, he walked away from the wreckage.
Behind Lapierre came Mike Conway, who did well to keep his Super Nova entry out of the Turn 3 tyres after an excursion of his own, ahead of Bruno Senna (Arden), Borja Garcia (Durango) and points leader Luca Filippi (Super Nova).
The latter nailed a last-ditch top-10 time on his final lap.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Timo Glock iSport International 1:27.713 2. Andreas Zuber iSport International 1:28.102 + 0.389 3. Lucas Di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:28.681 + 0.968 4. Nicolas Lapierre DAMS 1:28.712 + 0.999 5. Mike Conway Super Nova International 1:28.717 + 1.004 6. Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:28.484 + 0.771 7. Bruno Senna Arden International 1:28.762 + 1.049 8. Borja Garcia Durango 1:28.808 + 1.095 9. Luca Filippi Super Nova International 1:28.941 + 1.228 10. Karun Chandhok Durango 1:29.025 + 1.312 11. Antonio Pizzonia FMS International 1:29.146 + 1.433 12. Roldan Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:29.349 + 1.636 13. Alexandre Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:29.494 + 1.781 14. Kohei Hirate Trident Racing 1:29.574 + 1.861 15. Kazuki Nakajima DAMS 1:28.696 + 0.983 16. Adrian Zaugg Arden International 1:29.698 + 1.985 17. Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:29.717 + 2.004 18. Sakon Yamamoto BCN Competicion 1:29.552 + 1.839 19. Sergio Jimenez Racing Engineering 1:29.727 + 2.014 20. Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing 1:29.810 + 2.097 21. Michael Aleshin ART Grand Prix 1:30.026 + 2.313 22. Jason Tahinci FMS International 1:30.392 + 2.679 23. C.Bakkerud DPR 1:30.843 + 3.130 24. Ho-Pin Tung BCN Competicion 1:31.636 + 3.923 25. Andy Soucek DPR 1:30.130 + 2.417 26. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:32.173 + 4.460
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