The second day of post season testing at Yas Marina Circuit saw a slightly different entry list than the previous day: first, Norman Nato moved to RT RUSSIAN TIME whilst 2014 GP3 Series Champion Alex Lynn had his first taste of GP2 at the wheel of the Carlin car. Jazeman Jaafar switched to Racing Engineering alongside Simon Trummer. Thai driver Sandy Stuvik tested with ART Grand Prix in car #10 whilst Nicholas Latifi and Emil Bernstorff both moved to Hilmer Motorsport. Rapax tested with Kevin Ceccon and Sergey Sirotkin. GP3 racer Dino Zamparelli partnered Raffaele Marciello at Status Grand Prix. For the first time ever at an official GP2 test, a female driver appeared in the field as Dutch Beitske Visser paired up with Nathanaël Berthon at Venezuela GP Lazarus. Finally, Rio Haryanto joined Campos Racing for the day.

The morning session opened and the twenty-six cars fed onto the track. Once again, it was Campos’ Arthur Pic who set the early pace in a 1:49.645. His time – set within the first 30 minutes of the session – was never bettered until the chequered flag dropped. It was a studious and trouble-free session except for a first brief red flag period in the final hour to pick up some debris left on the track. With five minutes left on the clock, the proceedings were halted again after Nato stopped at the top of the straight. The session was not re-started and Pic enjoyed the top of the timesheet ahead of Jordan King, Esteban Ocon, Haryanto, Berthon, Pierre Gasly, Rene Binder, Marciello, Lynn and Julian Leal.

The afternoon session saw a driver change at ART with Nobuharu Matsushita replacing Koudai Tsukakoshi in car #09. It was Haryanto who set the pace before an early red flag period interrupted the proceedings: Sergey Sirotkin went off at Turn 1 and made contact with the barrier at Turn 1. The Russian was unharmed, but his Rapax machine was badly damaged and Sirotkin had to sit out the rest of the session.

When the track was live again, Gasly moved up to P2, just a few hundredths off Haryanto’s time. On his next attempt, the Frenchman from DAMS went top, but Marciello went even quicker by 2 hundredths. Times kept on tumbling down, with Pic going P1 in a 1:49.204, however rookie Ocon went even quicker with a 1:49.048 to snatch the top spot. Halfway through the session, Gasly also found some extra pace to dip under 1m49s and sat pretty at the top until the chequered flag dropped, and for the second day in a row the DAMS driver ended the day as the quickest man on track. Behind Gasly, Ocon, Pic, Marciello, Binder, Jordan King, Daniel De Jong, Haryanto, Artem Markelov rounded up the top ten.

The final day of post season testing will take place tomorrow and will start at 12.00pm local time.

Morning results

Driver

Team

Laptime

Laps

1.

Arthur Pic

Campos Racing

1:49.645

21

2.

Jordan King

Arden International

1:49.759

29

3.

Esteban Ocon

DAMS

1:49.812

22

4.

Rio Haryanto

Campos Racing

1:49.821

24

5.

Nathanaël Berthon

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:49.834

27

6.

Pierre Gasly

DAMS

1:50.070

27

7.

Rene Binder

Trident

1:50.250

17

8.

Raffaele Marciello

Status Grand Prix

1:50.283

18

9.

Alex Lynn

Carlin

1:50.490

23

10.

Julian Leal

Carlin

1:50.496

28

11.

Nicholas Latifi

Hilmer Motorsport

1:50.584

23

12.

André Negrao

Arden International

1:50.632

22

13.

Artem Markelov

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:50.668

21

14.

Daniel De Jong

MP Motorsport

1:50.705

11

15.

Marlon Stockinger

MP Motorsport

1:50.835

16

16.

Jazeman Jaafar

Racing Engineering

1:50.864

28

17.

Sergey Sirotkin

Rapax

1:50.895

20

18.

Zoel Amberg

Trident

1:51.002

24

19.

Kevin Ceccon

Rapax

1:51.029

26

20.

Dino Zamparelli

Status Grand Prix

1:51.060

26

21.

Emil Bernstorff

Hilmer Motorsport

1:51.097

21

22.

Sandy Stuvik

ART Grand Prix

1:51.244

36

23.

Koudai Tsukakoshi

ART Grand Prix

1:51.386

36

24.

Beitske Visser

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:52.079

36

25.

Simon Trummer

Racing Engineering

1:52.186

20

Afternoon results

Driver

Team

Laptime

Laps

1.

Pierre Gasly

DAMS

1:48.663

30

2.

Esteban Ocon

DAMS

1:49.048

24

3.

Arthur Pic

Campos Racing

1:49.204

30

4.

Raffaele Marciello

Status Grand Prix

1:49.287

30

5.

Rene Binder

Trident

1:49.320

24

6.

Jordan King

Arden International

1:49.321

25

7.

Daniel De Jong

MP Motorsport

1:49.600

23

8.

Rio Haryanto

Campos Racing

1:49.639

28

9.

Artem Markelov

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:49.645

26

10.

André Negrao

Arden International

1:49.669

22

11.

Nobuharu Matsushita

ART Grand Prix

1:49.690

42

12.

Dino Zamparelli

Status Grand Prix

1:49.833

32

13.

Nathanaël Berthon

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:49.836

26

14.

Emil Bernstorff

Hilmer Motorsport

1:49.857

35

15.

Nicholas Latifi

Hilmer Motorsport

1:49.883

25

16.

Jazeman Jaafar

Racing Engineering

1:49.956

27

17.

Norman Nato

RT RUSSIAN TIME

1:50.010

28

18.

Marlon Stockinger

MP Motorsport

1:50.040

26

19.

Zoel Amberg

Trident

1:50.076

24

20.

Alex Lynn

Carlin

1:50.138

20

21.

Sandy Stuvik

ART Grand Prix

1:50.189

34

22.

Julian Leal

Carlin

1:50.190

29

23.

Kevin Ceccon

Rapax

1:50.226

25

24.

Simon Trummer

Racing Engineering

1:50.604

24

25.

Beitske Visser

Venezuela GP Lazarus

1:50.799

23

26.

Sergey Sirotkin

Rapax

1:51.937

5