Matsushita quickest on day two of GP2 test

ART Grand Prix's Nobuharu Matsushita set the quickest time on the second day of GP2 testing in Bahrain.

The Honda-backed Japanese driver, the reigning Japanese Formula 3 champion, led the way with a time of 1:40.191, posted in the afternoon, when all the quickest times were set after difficult conditions in the morning.

The running was delayed by an hour at the start of the day after the track had to be cleaned following a sandstorm overnight.

Arthur Pic finished second for the Campos Racing team, with Italian Raffaele Marciello third for Trident.

The quickest times of the day were all set in the final 15 minutes of running, when most drivers switched to Pirelli's soft tyres for qualifying simulations.

Russian Sergey Sirotkin, who had led a morning session in which only 18 cars set a time, was fourth quickest for Rapax.

Marco Sorensen completed the top five in the quickest of the Carlin cars.

The test continues tomorrow.

Morning times

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sergey Sirotkin	Rapax	1'41.797		10
2	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1'42.289	0.492	10
3	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1'42.427	0.630	9
4	Rio Haryanto	Campos Racing	1'42.437	0.640	15
5	Arthur Pic	Campos Racing	1'42.483	0.686	21
6	Stoffel Vandoorne	ART Grand Prix	1'42.557	0.760	12
7	N.Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1'42.588	0.791	14
8	Julian Leal	Carlin	1'42.736	0.939	5
9	Rene Binder	Trident	1'43.104	1.307	16
10	Alexander Rossi	Racing Engineering	1'43.390	1.593	15
11	Robert Visoiu	Rapax	1'43.580	1.783	12
12	Raffaele Marciello	Trident	1'43.749	1.952	4
13	N.Berthon	Lazarus	1'43.868	2.071	8
14	Nick Yelloly	Hilmer Motorsport	1'43.877	2.080	9
15	Pierre Gasly	DAMS	1'43.963	2.166	4
16	Marco Sørensen	Carlin	1'44.511	2.714	4
17	Sergio Canamasas	MP Motorsport	1'44.954	3.157	6
18	Zoel Amberg	Lazarus	1'45.070	3.273	8

Afternoon times

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	N.Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1'40.191		31
2	Arthur Pic	Campos Racing	1'40.350	0.159	27
3	R.Marciello	Trident	1'40.446	0.255	16
4	Sergey Sirotkin	Rapax	1'40.561	0.370	24
5	Marco Sørensen	Carlin	1'40.658	0.467	25
6	S.Vandoorne	ART Grand Prix	1'40.666	0.475	26
7	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1'40.927	0.736	20
8	Sergio Canamasas	MP Motorsport	1'40.958	0.767	33
9	Rio Haryanto	Campos Racing	1'40.981	0.790	29
10	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME	1'41.034	0.843	24
11	Richie Stanaway	Status Grand Prix	1'41.086	0.895	21
12	Rene Binder	Trident	1'41.097	0.906	25
13	Robert Visoiu	Rapax	1'41.128	0.937	27
14	Norman Nato	Arden International	1'41.183	0.992	32
15	Nick Yelloly	Hilmer Motorsport	1'41.227	1.036	22
16	Alexander Rossi	Racing Engineering	1'41.341	1.150	21
17	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1'41.352	1.161	22
18	Mitchell Evans	RUSSIAN TIME	1'41.372	1.181	16
19	Zoel Amberg	Lazarus	1'41.440	1.249	35
20	Julián Leal	Carlin	1'41.497	1.306	21
21	Pierre Gasly	DAMS	1'41.606	1.415	31
22	M.Stöckinger	Status Grand Prix	1'41.669	1.478	33
23	N.Berthon	Lazarus	1'42.467	2.276	5
24	André Negrão	Arden International	1'42.509	2.318	23
25	Nigel Melker	Hilmer Motorsport	1'43.631	3.440	13
26	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1'44.181	3.990	34