Red Bull Formula 1 junior Pierre Gasly led the way on the second day of GP2 testing at Barcelona, for series newcomer Prema Powerteam.
Gasly was fastest in the afternoon session with a time of 1m27.703s, the only driver to improve after the lunchbreak having opted for a late run on the soft tyres.
The Frenchman’s effort was 1.076 seconds faster than Racing Engineering’s Jordan King in the session, but just 0.268s up on Sergey Sirotkin for the day.
ART Grand Prix driver Sirotkin was the fastest driver of the morning, having set the pace on Wednesday, and finished Thursday second overall.
King finished up third, with his 1m28.094s lap set in the morning, ahead of team-mate Norman Nato.
Russian Time’s Raffaele Marciello was fifth, ahead of the team’s former driver Mitch Evans, now with Campos.
On the day it announced it was leaving Formula V8 3.5 to focus on GP2, Carlin was seventh and eighth with Rene Binder and Marvin Kirchhofer.
The test concludes on Friday.
MORNING TIMES
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m27.971s | – | 34 |
| 2 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m28.084s | 0.113s | 39 |
| 3 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m28.093s | 0.122s | 36 |
| 4 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m28.106s | 0.135s | 39 |
| 5 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m28.194s | 0.223s | 38 |
| 6 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m28.403s | 0.432s | 47 |
| 7 | Rene Binder | Carlin | 1m28.591s | 0.620s | 36 |
| 8 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m28.862s | 0.891s | 33 |
| 9 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m28.871s | 0.900s | 41 |
| 10 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m28.873s | 0.902s | 26 |
| 11 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m28.890s | 0.919s | 28 |
| 12 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m28.902s | 0.931s | 17 |
| 13 | Sergio Canamasas | Status Grand Prix | 1m29.103s | 1.132s | 22 |
| 14 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m29.115s | 1.144s | 33 |
| 15 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m29.204s | 1.233s | 33 |
| 16 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m29.229s | 1.258s | 21 |
| 17 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m29.353s | 1.382s | 37 |
| 18 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m29.717s | 1.746s | 34 |
| 19 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m30.143s | 2.172s | 39 |
| 20 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m30.223s | 2.252s | 36 |
| 21 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m32.023s | 4.052s | 14 |
| 22 | Meindert van Buuren | Status Grand Prix | 1m32.077s | 4.106s | 18 |
| 23 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m33.952s | 5.981s | 41 |
| 24 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m34.714s | 6.743s | 40 |
AFTERNOON TIMES
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m27.703s | – | 25 |
| 2 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m28.779s | 1.076s | 31 |
| 3 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m28.827s | 1.124s | 38 |
| 4 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m29.023s | 1.320s | 34 |
| 5 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m29.130s | 1.427s | 22 |
| 6 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m29.198s | 1.495s | 21 |
| 7 | Rene Binder | Carlin | 1m29.616s | 1.913s | 27 |
| 8 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m29.632s | 1.929s | 20 |
| 9 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m29.794s | 2.091s | 37 |
| 10 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m29.879s | 2.176s | 25 |
| 11 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m29.991s | 2.288s | 26 |
| 12 | Sergio Canamasas | Status Grand Prix | 1m30.063s | 2.360s | 31 |
| 13 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m30.574s | 2.871s | 42 |
| 14 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m30.732s | 3.029s | 21 |
| 15 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m30.957s | 3.254s | 22 |
| 16 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m31.739s | 4.036s | 37 |
| 17 | Meindert van Buuren | Status Grand Prix | 1m32.700s | 4.997s | 25 |
| 18 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m32.966s | 5.263s | 43 |
| 19 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m33.471s | 5.768s | 43 |
| 20 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m33.700s | 5.997s | 47 |
| 21 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m33.969s | 6.266s | 38 |
| 22 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m34.478s | 6.775s | 40 |
| 23 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m34.727s | 7.024s | 41 |
| 24 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m34.948s | 7.245s | 48 |
