Latifi tops Day 2 of Abu Dhabi test for DAMS

Canadian racer Nicholas Latifi was the quickest driver on the second day of GP2's three-day post-season test at Yas Marina.

Latifi, running for perennial frontrunners DAMS, posted his best time of 1m47.860s in the afternoon - and, in doing so, narrowly surpassed the Day 1 benchmark of ART's Nobuharu Matsushita.

The Canadian was close to completing a sweep of the day's two sessions, but was denied by 0.017s in the morning, losing out to Russian Time's Artem Markelov.

Andre Negrao, driving for Rapax, was a tenth off of Markelov in third and had Richie Stanaway and Pierre Gasly within another tenth of his time.

In the afternoon, Latifi took over at the front for good and would be the only driver to surpass the 1m48s mark.

Norman Nato moved up to second for ART late on, demoting Sergey Sirotkin to third, as Alex Lynn and Nick Yelloly made up the top five.

Campos Racing's new signing Mitch Evans ended his first day with the team in ninth, while Jimmy Eriksson was the top rookie in 11th.

GP2 test times (Day 2):

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:49.025	1:47.860
2	Norman Nato	ART Grand Prix	1:49.318	1:48.035
3	Sergey Sirotkin	Rapax	1:49.570	1:48.108
4	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:53.358	1:48.265
5	Nick Yelloly	MP Motorsport	1:49.270	1:48.297
6	Andre Negrao	Rapax	1:49.103	1:48.347
7	Pierre Gasly	Russian Time	1:49.205	1:48.356
8	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:49.008	1:48.691
9	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1:49.910	1:48.696
10	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:49.717	1:48.754
11	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:49.695	1:48.769
12	Marlon Stockinger	ART Grand Prix	1:49.991	1:48.887
13	Dean Stoneman	Carlin	1:49.596	1:49.060
14	Alex Fontana	Status Grand Prix	1:49.392	1:49.119
15	Richie Stanaway	Carlin	1:49.137	No Time
16	Oliver Rowland	Prema Racing	1:50.347	1:49.156
17	Richard Gonda	MP Motorsport	1:50.362	1:49.278
18	Felix Rosenqvist	Prema Racing	1:50.461	1:49.296
19	Antonio Giovinazzi	Carlin	No Time	1:49.363
20	Gustav Malja	Arden International	1:49.895	1:49.378
21	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1:50.375	1:49.549
22	Luca Ghiotto	Racing Engineering	1:49.614	1:49.570
23	Artur Janosz	Trident	1:50.807	1:49.759
24	Patric Armand	Status Grand Prix	1:51.667	1:50.834
25	Zoel Amberg	Trident	1:52.192	No Time