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Pierre Gasly tops Day 1 at Yas Marina

DAMS quickest in opening pre-season test day
The 2015 GP2 Series pre-season tests got underway today at the Yas Marina Circuit. Day one of the three day test saw all twenty-six drivers eager to try out the brand new DRS on their cars. When the pitlane went green, Alexander Rossi was the first man out soon followed by the rest of the field for their installation laps on a dirty track and in windy conditions.
The first two hours were studious with teams focusing on aero testing. With one hour left on the clock, the session was suspended for thirty minutes for software adjustments. When it resumed, Jordan King went quickest, but his time was bettered first by Rene Binder and then by Rossi.
In the closing stages, the session was red flagged after Stockinger stopped on track at Turn 5. With eight minutes left on the clock, the track went live again and the cars enjoyed a cleaner track with Rossi topping the timesheet at the chequered flag with a laptime of 1:50.845 ahead of DAMS’ pair Pierre Gasly and Alex Lynn.
In the afternoon, Zoel Amberg fed onto the track first, but it was Stoffel Vandoorne who topped the timesheets in the first hour, dipping under 1m50s. Gasly went quicker in a 1:49.760 – 3 hundredths better than the Belgian driver. Halfway through the session, Mitch Evans found some extra pace to clock the circuit in 1:49.598. Rio Haryanto also improved, moving up to P2, but he remained 2 tenths slower than the New Zealander.
There was a red flag period in the final hour after Julian Leal stopped at turn 17. The proceedings resumed with 30 minutes left on the clock. King went top ahead of Sergey Sirotkin, but Gasly went even quicker to snatch P1 with ten minutes remaining with a laptime of 1:49.089. Arthur Pic broke into the 1m48s, but so did Gasly who remained top ahead of the Campos man with a laptime of 1:48.897.
At the chequered flag, Gasly and Pic were P1 and P2 ahead of Trident’s duo of Raffaele Marciello and Binder who moved up to third and fourth respectively in the dying minutes. Sirotkin finished fifth ahead of Evans, Haryanto, Rossi and Lynn.
Tomorrow’s morning session will start at 12.00, local time.
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Morning results
Driver
Team
Laptime
Laps
1.
Alexander Rossi
Racing Engineering
1:50.845
8
2.
Pierre Gasly
DAMS
1:51.298
12
3.
Alex Lynn
DAMS
1:51.544
13
4.
Raffaele Marciello
Trident
1:51.605
19
5.
Daniel De Jong
MP Motorsport
1:51.665
17
6.
Mitch Evans
RUSSIAN TIME
1:51.670
10
7.
Rene Binder
Trident
1:51.779
9
8.
Jordan King
Racing Engineering
1:51.822
10
9.
Nathanaël Berthon
Lazarus
1:52.001
10
10.
Arthur Pic
Campos Racing
1:52.020
13
11.
Julian Leal
Carlin
1:52.074
15
12.
Sergey Sirotkin
Rapax
1:52.103
15
13.
Richie Stanaway
Status Grand Prix
1:52.261
14
14.
Rio Haryanto
Campos Racing
1:52.273
15
15.
Artem Markelov
RUSSIAN TIME
1:53.059
16
16.
Robert Visoiu
Rapax
1:53.338
17
17.
Sergio Canamasas
Hilmer Motorsport
1:53.340
12
18.
Marco Sorensen
Carlin
1:53.366
6
19.
Zoel Amberg
Lazarus
1:53.565
15
20.
Marlon Stockinger
Status Grand Prix
1:53.701
15
21.
Vittorio Ghirelli
MP Motorsport
1:54.451
15
22.
André Negrao
Arden International
1:54.645
21
23.
Stoffel Vandoorne
ART Grand Prix
2:08.142
30
24.
Norman Nato
Arden International
2:15.901
30
25.
Nobuharu Matsushita
ART Grand Prix
2:25.398
23
26.
Axcil Jefferies
Hilmer Motorsport
Afternoon results
Driver
Team
Laptime
Laps
1.
Pierre Gasly
DAMS
1:48.897
23
2.
Arthur Pic
Campos Racing
1:48.955
18
3.
Raffaele Marciello
Trident
1:49.252
14
4.
Rene Binder
Trident
1:49.294
21
5.
Jordan King
Racing Engineering
1:49.303
21
6.
Sergey Sirotkin
Rapax
1:49.379
20
7.
Mitch Evans
RUSSIAN TIME
1:49.393
21
8.
Rio Haryanto
Campos Racing
1:49.456
24
9.
Alexander Rossi
Racing Engineering
1:49.474
22
10.
Alex Lynn
DAMS
1:49.480
24
11.
Stoffel Vandoorne
ART Grand Prix
1:49.579
23
12.
Norman Nato
Arden International
1:49.682
22
13.
Richie Stanaway
Status Grand Prix
1:49.771
16
14.
Daniel De Jong
MP Motorsport
1:49.865
18
15.
André Negrao
Arden International
1:49.916
18
16.
Marco Sorensen
Carlin
1:49.960
24
17.
Nathanaël Berthon
Lazarus
1:50.163
17
18.
Julian Leal
Carlin
1:50.307
4
19.
Nobuharu Matsushita
ART Grand Prix
1:50.674
22
20.
Vittorio Ghirelli
MP Motorsport
1:50.680
19
21.
Artem Markelov
RUSSIAN TIME
1:50.929
25
22.
Marlon Stockinger
Status Grand Prix
1:51.004
22
23.
Robert Visoiu
Rapax
1:51.069
23
24.
Sergio Canamasas
Hilmer Motorsport
1:51.178
24
25.
Zoel Amberg
Lazarus
1:52.651
14
26.
Axcil Jefferies
Hilmer Motorsport