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Gasly quickest again on final post season testing day

The final day of post-season testing saw once again a few changes in the field starting with Kimiya Sato joining RT RUSSIAN TIME for the day whilst Emil Bernstorff moved to Carlin. Raffaele Marciello re-joined Racing Engineering alongside Mitch Evans. 2014 GP3 Series Champion Alex Lynn tested with ART Grand Prix. After two days spent with Trident, Rene Binder switched to Hilmer Motorsport for the last day. Norman Nato moved to Arden international while Pal Varhaug returned to a GP2 car with Status Grand Prix. Jordan King moved to MP Motorsport and finally, Trident had a complete new line-up made up of Luis Sa Silva and Simon Trummer.

As the track went live, the cars quickly fed onto the track with Esteban Ocon setting the early pace until Kevin Ceccon demoted him to P2. Within the first hour, Pierre Gasly who has been the quickest man over the first two days was able to lap the track in a 1:49.455, a laptime good enough to go top. Ocon and Rio Haryanto both broke the 1m50s barrier too, but they were still five tenths slower than Gasly. In the final thirty minutes of the session, Gasly improved on his personal best whilst Jordan King and Marciello also improved to move up to P2 and P5 respectively. At the chequered flag, Sergey Sirotkin, Ceccon, Binder, Lynn and Nathanaël Berthon rounded up the top ten.

The second half of the day started with Ocon setting the pace in a 1:49.654 ahead of King and Evans. First Berthon and then Rio Haryanto improved on the Frenchman’s laptime, but it was once again Gasly who found the extra pace to dip under 1m49s and claim the top spot. The remainder of the session was studious with most of the drivers on long runs. The proceedings were red flagged in the final hour after Beitske Visser stopped at turn 3 following a gearbox failure.  At the chequered flag, Gasly enjoyed the honour of P1 once again ahead of DAMS teammate and rookie Ocon. Pic ended a strong P3 ahead of King, Sirotkin, Haryanto, Dino Zamparelli, Berthon, Marciello and Lynn (who caused a second red flag in the dying minutes of the session after he stopped at turn 19).

This concludes the 2014 GP2 Series season. The dates for pre-season testing and the 2015 GP2 Series calendar will be announced in due course.

Morning results

Driver

Team

Laptime

Laps

1.

Pierre Gasly

DAMS

1:49.346

29

2.

Jordan King

MP Motorsport

1:49.891

23

3.

Esteban Ocon

DAMS

1:49.939

24

4.

Rio Haryanto

Campos Racing

1:49.943

35

5.

Raffaele Marciello

Racing Engineering

1:49.993

27

6.

Sergey Sirotkin

Rapax

1:50.057

19

7.

Kevin Ceccon

Rapax

1:50.063

21

8.

Rene Binder

Hilmer Motorsport

1:50.063

28

9.

Alex Lynn

ART Grand Prix

1:50.132

26

10.

Nathanaël Berthon

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:50.221

27

11.

Arthur Pic

Campos Racing

1:50.255

33

12.

Norman Nato

Arden International

1:50.299

33

13.

Mitch Evans

Racing Engineering

1:50.303

22

14.

André Negrao

Arden International

1:50.367

30

15.

Emil Bernstorff

Carlin

1:50.404

28

16.

Artem Markelov

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:50.501

18

17.

Julian Leal

Carlin

1:50.589

18

18.

Kimiya Sato

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:50.618

31

19.

Simon Trummer

Trident

1:50.672

23

20.

Marlon Stockinger

MP Motorsport

1:50.691

31

21.

Nicholas Latifi

Hilmer Motorsport

1:50.794

25

22.

Dino Zamparelli

Status Grand Prix

1:50.825

30

23.

Luis Sa Silva

Trident

1:50.874

29

24.

Beitske Visser

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:51.156

26

25.

Pal Varhaug

Status Grand Prix

1:51.742

35

26.

Sandy Stuvik

ART Grand Prix

1:51.785

34


Afternoon results

Driver

Team

Laptime

Laps

1.

Pierre Gasly

DAMS

1:48.231

24

2.

Esteban Ocon

DAMS

1:48.798

27

3.

Arthur Pic

Campos Racing

1:49.091

32

4.

Jordan King

MP Motorsport

1:49.129

26

5.

Sergey Sirotkin

Rapax

1:49.200

27

6.

Rio Haryanto

Campos Racing

1:49.206

31

7.

Dino Zamparelli

Status Grand Prix

1:49.265

31

8.

Nathanaël Berthon

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:49.266

26

9.

Raffaele Marciello

Racing Engineering

1:49.285

32

10.

Alex Lynn

ART Grand Prix

1:49.306

30

11.

Kevin Ceccon

Rapax

1:49.369

25

12.

Artem Markelov

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:49.492

30

13.

Norman Nato

Arden International

1:49.537

30

14.

André Negrao

Arden International

1:49.577

25

15.

Mitch Evans

Racing Engineering

1:49.595

25

16.

Nicholas Latifi

Hilmer Motorsport

1:49.607

30

17.

Emil Bernstorff

Carlin

1:49.628

27

18.

Marlon Stockinger

MP Motorsport

1:49.672

36

19.

Rene Binder

Hilmer Motorsport

1:50.004

23

20.

Julian Leal

Carlin

1:50.026

27

21.

Kimiya Sato

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:50.165

32

22.

Pal Varhaug

Status Grand Prix

1:50.217

35

23.

Luis Sa Silva

Trident

1:50.313

24

24.

Simon Trummer

Trident

1:50.436

29

25.

Sandy Stuvik

ART Grand Prix

1:50.480

28

26.

Beitske Visser

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:50.624

20