Pantano takes pole at Monza
Giorgio Pantano continued his domination of the GP2 Series whenever it visits his home track of Monza by setting pole position for Saturday's feature race
Pantano, who won both races here last year for FMS, lapped his Campos Grand Prix car in 1:30.545, over three-tenths clear of his nearest rival, Lucas di Grassi (ART Grand Prix).
Championship contender di Grassi set his time early in the session, but he couldn't better it as Pantano managed to do, finally setting the standard with three minutes to go.
Pantano's teammate, Vitaly Petrov, was third fastest, setting exactly the same time as di Grassi, but he will start behind the Brazilian as he set his time later.
Kazuki Nakajima (DAMS) will start fourth, just a couple of hundredths shy of the di Grassi/Petrov time. Adam Carroll was fifth fastest for FMS, spinning at Turn 1 just after setting his best time as he did in free practice this morning.
Xandi Negrao (Minardi/Piquet) will join Carroll on row three, ahead of Luca Filippi (Super Nova), who spent much of the session driving across chicane run-off zones. He just pipped series leader Timo Glock (iSport) by 0.042 seconds to seventh.
Adrian Zaugg (Arden) and Andi Zuber (iSport) will start from row five, ahead of Sebastien Buemi (ART) and Mike Conway (Super Nova).
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:30.546 14 2. Di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:30.879 + 0.333 11 3. Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:30.879 + 0.333 13 4. Nakajima DAMS 1:30.941 + 0.395 15 5. Carroll FMS International 1:30.981 + 0.435 12 6. Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:31.006 + 0.460 13 7. Filippi Super Nova International 1:31.048 + 0.502 16 8. Glock iSport International 1:31.090 + 0.544 15 9. Zaugg Arden International 1:31.190 + 0.644 15 10. Zuber iSport International 1:31.202 + 0.656 15 11. Buemi ART Grand Prix 1:31.219 + 0.673 15 12. Conway Super Nova International 1:31.289 + 0.743 16 13. Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:31.445 + 0.899 16 14. Senna Arden International 1:31.499 + 0.953 15 15. Garcia Durango 1:31.631 + 1.085 15 16. Martinez Racing Engineering 1:31.670 + 1.124 15 17. Villa Racing Engineering 1:31.733 + 1.187 14 18. Chandhok Durango 1:31.826 + 1.280 12 19. Lapierre DAMS 1:31.837 + 1.291 15 20. Hirate Trident Racing 1:31.851 + 1.305 15 21. Tung BCN Competicion 1:31.958 + 1.412 15 22. Risatti Trident Racing 1:31.971 + 1.425 16 23. Pla DPR 1:32.125 + 1.579 14 24. Tahinci FMS International 1:32.314 + 1.768 11 25. Niemela BCN Competicion 1:33.578 + 3.032 18
26. Soucek DPR 1:38.111 + 7.565 5 (*)
Outside 107%
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