Venezuelan racer Johnny Cecotto took the first pole position of the year for him in GP2 Series on the Red Bull Ring, Austria.

The session opened with André Negrao set the early pace but the timesheet were improving every time with Marciello and Vandoorne who last year race here, setting the first position.

After 10 minutes of the session, Cecotto was leading the field followed by Palmer and Vandoorne. Meanwhile in the track a lot of drivers went off at 9 and 8 corners, as we saw some lock ups at turn 1.

Halfway through the session, with Abt and Trummer in the track and all drivers in the pits, the top positions were: Cecotto, Palmer, Vandoorne, Leal and Nasr.

Drivers came out to the track with 8 minutes remaining but no one have improved until Raffaele Marciello took the third place with 3 minutes to go and with some raindrops at first sector. Meanwhile, Series leader, Joylon Palmer did a spun off at final turn.

But any one couldn’t improve his lap time due to the spots of rain in the track which impeded Marciello improve the Cecotto pole position lap.

Results:

Pos. Car Driver Team Nation Laps Time Gap
1 23 Johnny Cecotto Trident VEN 17 1:15,312
2 7 Joylon Palmer Dams GBR 15 1:15,352 + 0,04
3 3 Felipe Nasr Carlin BRA 18 1:15,358 + 0,046
4 6 Stefano Coletti Racing Engineering MON 17 1:15,443 + 0,131
5 5 Raffaele Marciello R Racing Engineering ITA 18 1:15,449 + 0,137
6 10 Stoffel Vandoorne R ART Grand Prix BEL 17 1:15,481 + 0,169
7 26 Arhur Pic R Campos Racing FRA 17 1:15,608 + 0,296
8 1 Mitch Evans RT Russian Time NZ 17 1:15,614 + 0,302
9 19 Alexander Rossi EQ8 Caterham Racing USA 17 1:15,644 + 0,332
10 8 Stéphane Richelmi Dams MON 16 1:15,664 + 0,352
11 17 André Negrao R Arden International BRA 16 1:15,773 + 0,461
12 4 Julián Leal Carlin COL 16 1:15,784 + 0,472
13 18 Rio Haryanto EQ8 Caterham Racing IND 16 1:15,811 + 0,499
14 14 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax GBR 16 1:15,927 + 0,615
15 21 Tio Ellinas R MP Motorsport CYP 15 1:15,964 + 0,652
16 22 Sergio Canamasas Trident ESP 16 1:16,034 + 0,722
17 9 Takuya Izawa R ART Grand Prix JAP 17 1:16,092 + 0,78
18 2 Artem Markelov R RT Russian Time RUS 17 1:16,136 + 0,824
19 11 Daniel Abt Hilmer Motorsport GER 19 1:16,246 + 0,934
20 27 Kimiya Sato R Campos Racing JAP 17 1:16,274 + 0,962
21 16 Rene Binder Arden International AUT 17 1:16,331 + 1,019
22 20 Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport NED 14 1:16,334 + 1,022
23 12 Facu Regalia R Hilmer Motorsport ARG 18 1:16,497 + 1,185
24 15 Simon Trummer Rapax CHE 17 1:16,531 + 1,219
25 25 Conor Daly Venezuela GP Lazarus USA 14 1:16,539 + 1,227
26 24 Nathanaël Berthon Venezuela GP Lazarus FRA 16 1:16,654 + 1,342

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