GP2 testing: Norman Nato fastest for Racing Engineering at Jerez
Racing Engineering's Norman Nato was quickest on the opening day of the final GP2 pre-season test at Jerez
Nato set a quickest time of 1m25.811s ahead of Pierre Gasly and his team-mate Jordan King.
The drivers only had half an hour of proper running in the morning after foggy conditions brought out the red flag due to poor visibility.
Once the action picked up, Raffaele Marciello set the early pace before King managed to pull out a quicker lap as the track improved.
Nato and Gasly also improved in the final minutes of the session, both dipping under 1m26s to lead the times at lunch.
Alex Lynn was fourth quickest, while F3 graduate Antonio Giovinazzi rounded out the top five ahead of experienced drivers Mitch Evans and Sergey Sirotkin.
Gasly was quickest in the slower afternoon part of the session, setting a 1m26.375s ahead of Lynn and Nato.
Lynn led for most for most of the session from Nicholas Latifi before Jimmy Eriksson brought out the red flag an hour into the session after taking a trip through the gravel at Turn 1 and clipping the barrier.
Once the session resumed Giovinazzi improved his time to go fourth fastest, ahead of King and GP3 runner up Luca Ghiotto who was five tenths off the pace in sixth.
MORNING TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m25.811s | - | 14 |
2 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m25.961s | 0.150s | 10 |
3 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m26.124s | 0.313s | 15 |
4 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m26.280s | 0.469s | 8 |
5 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m26.322s | 0.511s | 10 |
6 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m26.350s | 0.539s | 18 |
7 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m26.405s | 0.594s | 15 |
8 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m26.650s | 0.839s | 15 |
9 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m26.674s | 0.863s | 7 |
10 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m26.706s | 0.895s | 17 |
11 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m26.762s | 0.951s | 12 |
12 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m26.805s | 0.994s | 9 |
13 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m26.888s | 1.077s | 15 |
14 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m26.928s | 1.117s | 15 |
15 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m27.065s | 1.254s | 13 |
16 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m27.273s | 1.462s | 18 |
17 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m27.421s | 1.610s | 15 |
18 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m27.657s | 1.846s | 13 |
19 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m28.193s | 2.382s | 16 |
20 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m28.744s | 2.933s | 15 |
21 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m35.360s | 9.549s | 4 |
AFTERNOON TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m26.375s | - | 29 |
2 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m26.442s | 0.067s | 43 |
3 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m26.558s | 0.183s | 31 |
4 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m26.566s | 0.191s | 19 |
5 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m26.617s | 0.242s | 34 |
6 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m26.855s | 0.480s | 18 |
7 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m26.883s | 0.508s | 29 |
8 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m26.989s | 0.614s | 21 |
9 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m27.101s | 0.726s | 18 |
10 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m27.112s | 0.737s | 28 |
11 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m27.151s | 0.776s | 21 |
12 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m27.154s | 0.779s | 46 |
13 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m27.222s | 0.847s | 34 |
14 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m27.224s | 0.849s | 41 |
15 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m27.275s | 0.900s | 18 |
16 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m27.487s | 1.112s | 24 |
17 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m27.734s | 1.359s | 13 |
18 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m27.824s | 1.449s | 34 |
19 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m27.838s | 1.463s | 28 |
20 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m27.846s | 1.471s | 28 |
21 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m28.352s | 1.977s | 8 |
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