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Practice report

Sepang GP2: Gasly leads dominant Prema 1-2 in practice

Prema duo Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi locked out the top two positions in GP2 practice for the championship's first visit to Sepang since 2013.

Pierre Gasly, PREMA Racing

Pierre Gasly, PREMA Racing

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Red Bull junior Gasly set his benchmark of 1m42.352s before the mid-session pitstops, as he failed to improve in the late stages, running wide at Turn 9.

His teammate Giovinazzi managed to lower his own fastest time with just a couple of minutes left, but fell one tenth short Gasly.

Russian Time's Raffaele Marciello took third, half a second off the pace, beating Racing Engineering driver Jordan King by just two thousandths.

The Briton's teammate Norman Nato took fifth while Oliver Rowland and Artem Markelov were separated by just 0.005s in sixth and seventh respectively.

ART's Nobuharu Matsushita was eighth, ahead of Luca Ghiotto and Alex Lynn.

GP2 veteran Johnny Cecotto, who is standing in for Arthur Pic this weekend, 2.3s off the pace in last place.

Practice results

Cla#DriverTeamLapsTimeGapIntervalMph
1 21  Pierre Gasly   Prema Powerteam 12 1'42.352     194.962
2 20  Antonio Giovinazzi   Prema Powerteam 13 1'42.475 0.123 0.123 194.728
3 9  Raffaele Marciello   RUSSIAN TIME 13 1'42.894 0.542 0.419 193.935
4 4  Jordan King   Racing Engineering 13 1'42.896 0.544 0.002 193.931
5 3  Norman Nato   Racing Engineering 13 1'42.933 0.581 0.037 193.862
6 22  Oliver Rowland   MP Motorsport 14 1'43.130 0.778 0.197 193.491
7 10  Artem Markelov   RUSSIAN TIME 13 1'43.135 0.783 0.005 193.482
8 1  Nobuharu Matsushita   ART Grand Prix 13 1'43.204 0.852 0.069 193.352
9 15  Luca Ghiotto   Trident 13 1'43.212 0.860 0.008 193.337
10 5  Alex Lynn   DAMS 13 1'43.450 1.098 0.238 192.893
11 7  Mitch Evans   Campos Racing 13 1'43.578 1.226 0.128 192.654
12 2  Sergey Sirotkin   ART Grand Prix 9 1'43.857 1.505 0.279 192.137
13 18  Sergio Canamasas   Carlin 12 1'43.876 1.524 0.019 192.102
14 6  Nicholas Latifi   DAMS 14 1'43.928 1.576 0.052 192.006
15 19  Marvin Kirchhofer   Carlin 13 1'44.161 1.809 0.233 191.576
16 11  Gustav Malja   Rapax 14 1'44.195 1.843 0.034 191.513
17 8  Sean Gelael   Campos Racing 14 1'44.215 1.863 0.020 191.477
18 24  Nabil Jeffri   Arden International 13 1'44.232 1.880 0.017 191.446
19 23  Daniel de Jong   MP Motorsport 13 1'44.381 2.029 0.149 191.172
20 14  Philo Paz Armand   Trident 13 1'44.384 2.032 0.003 191.167
21 12  Johnny Cecotto   Rapax 12 1'44.687 2.335 0.303 190.613

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