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Petrov dominates Monza qualifying

Vitaly Petrov kept his slim title hopes alive by claiming pole position for tomorrow's GP2 Series feature race at Monza with a dominant performance in qualifying

The Russian's best lap of 1m30.007s came relatively early in the session, and with an advantage of almost half a second over the rest of the field, the Addax driver was able to spend the final 10 minutes on the pitwall watching the others try to catch him. No one came close - the nearest challenger was iSport's Giedo van der Garde, and even he fell 0.391s short.

Points leader Nico Hulkenberg (ART) will start just behind Petrov in third after a relatively subdued afternoon, with fellow rookie Sergio Perez alongside him on the second row for Arden.

With most of the quick times being set in the opening minutes, it was not a session that will be remembered as one of the season's more exciting, although Ocean's Alvaro Parente did his bit to inject some late fun by grabbing too much kerb at Roggia and spinning with two laps remaining.

Newcomer Johnny Cecotto Jr will make his GP2 debut with DPR from a respectable 16th on the grid.

Pos  Driver               Team                Time       Gap
 1.  Vitaly Petrov        Addax               1m30.007s
 2.  Giedo van der Garde  iSport              1m30.398s  + 0.391s
 3.  Nico Hulkenberg      ART                 1m30.436s  + 0.429s
 4.  Sergio Perez         Arden               1m30.460s  + 0.453s
 5.  Lucas di Grassi      Racing Engineering  1m30.504s  + 0.497s
 6.  Pastor Maldonado     ART                 1m30.596s  + 0.589s
 7.  Roldan Rodriguez     Piquet              1m30.634s  + 0.627s
 8.  Diego Nunes          iSport              1m30.729s  + 0.722s
 9.  Davide Valsecchi     Addax               1m30.768s  + 0.761s
10.  Andreas Zuber        Coloni              1m30.803s  + 0.796s
11.  Javier Villa         Super Nova          1m30.831s  + 0.824s
12.  Alberto Valerio      Piquet              1m30 911s  + 0.904s
13.  Davide Rigon         Trident             1m30.922s  + 0.915s
14.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering  1m31.021s  + 1.014s
15.  Luca Filippi         Super Nova          1m31.024s  + 1.017s
16.  Johnny Cecotto       DPR                 1m31.080s  + 1.073s
17.  Luiz Razia           Coloni              1m31.112s  + 1.105s
18.  Alvaro Parente       Ocean               1m31.160s  + 1.153s
19.  Kamui Kobayashi      DAMS                1m31.303s  + 1.296s
20   Karun Chandhok       Ocean               1m31.325s  + 1.318s
21.  Michael Herck        DPR                 1m31.347s  + 1.340s
22.  Jerome d'Ambrosio    DAMS                1m31.455s  + 1.448s
23.  Edoardo Mortara      Arden               1m31.887s  + 1.880s
24.  Ricardo Teixeira     Trident             1m32.640s  + 2.633s

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