2015 GP2 Pre-Season Test (Yas Marina) Day 2

Dams and Arden Dominate

After Gasly proved he'd lost no speed since last winter, he intended to go into the day with the same pace setting thought on his mind. It was however; Evans, Vandoorne and Rossi who were setting the early pace, as others got up to speed.

Throughout the morning session, many drivers decided to focus on set up and as a result few time improvements were seen at the top of the board. The exception to this was Lynn who beat the early pace drivers by half distance. While Gasly and Leal moved onto the quicker tyres toward the end of the morning. This saw a Dams 1-2 from Marciello at lunch.

However; unlike yesterday, many of the drivers had set their fast pace in the morning and Lynn's time would remain the fastest. Only half the field had set lap times after an hour and Gherelli's time was 3 seconds down on Lynn's morning pace. Only 15 competitive times had been set by the mid point of the session with Stanaway and Marciello on top.

The biggest action came from Haryanto who stopped on track at the back straight. He wasn't the only stoppage, with Nato bringing out the red flag after setting the fastest time. This interupted the Carlin's race runs. Times did fall towards the end, but Nato would remain fastest from his Arden teammate Negrao and the Trident drivers, who were split by Canamasas.

Pos.	Driver	Nat.	Team	Morning	Afternoon
1	Norman Nato	FRA	Arden International	1:52.319	1:49.697
2	Andre Negrao	BRA	Arden International	1:51.040	1:50.941
3	Raffaele Marciello	ITA	Trident	1:50.620 [3]	1:50.973
4	Sergio Canamasas	ESP	Hilmer Motorsport	1:52.360	1:51.171
5	Rene Binder	AUT	Trident	1:51.146	1:51.219
6	Stoffel Vandoorne	BEL	ART Grand Prix	1:50.620 [4]	1:51.251
7	Sergey Sirotkin	RUS	Rapax	1:52.192	1:51.264
8	Zoel Amburg	SUI	Lazarus	1:51.891	1:51.395
9	Nobuharu Matsushita	JAP	ART Grand Prix	1:51.908	1:51.556
10	Richie Stanaway	NZL	Status Grand Prix	1:51.620	1:51.648
11	Mitch Evans	NZL	Russian Time	1:50.625 [5]	1:51.656
12	Daniel De Jong	NED	MP Motorsport	1:51.758	1:51.675
13	Artem Markelov	RUS	Russian Time	1:51.623	1:51.783
14	Natanael Berthon	FRA	Lazarus	1:52.949	1:52.012
15	Vittorio Ghirelli	ITA	MP Motorsport	1:51.969	1:52.133
16	Robert Visoiu	ROM	Rapax	1:52.112	1:52.196
17	Marlon Stockinger	PHI	Status Grand Prix	1:52.764	1:52.694
18	Alex Lynn	GBR	Dams	1:49.648 [1]	1:53.223
19	Pierre Gasly	FRA	Dams	1:50.104 [2]	1:53.550
20	Jordan King	GBR	Racing Engineering	1:51.073	1:53.684
21	Rio Haryanto	IDN	Campos Racing	1:51.248	1:53.804
22	Alexander Rossi	USA	Racing Engineering	1:50.767	1:54.024
23	Arthur Pic	FRA	Campos Racing	1:50.996	1:54.354
24	Julian Leal	COL	Carlin	1:50.906	1:54.735
25	Marco Sorensen	DEN	Carlin	1:51.117	1:54.818
26	Axcil Jefferies	ZIM	Hilmer Motorsport	--	--
The Positions are the results of the Afternoon Session [1] – Position in Morning Session (only top 5 shown)

Also, congratulations as well to Jordan King who becomes Manor F1's development driver for the season.

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