Following a tight qualifying session in Sepang it was DAMS driver Davide Valsecchi who bagged pole, as well as the four points awarded for pole position in GP2, giving him the lead in the championship, at least until the race tomorrow. Valsecchi has stood on the podium before in Sepang, having finished third in the sprint race in the 2008-09 GP2 Asia Series, and he’ll be hoping to make the step up to the top step in the feature race tomorrow.
Qualifying was a very close affair, with less than one-tenth of a second covering the top five. Second, only six-hundredths of a second behind Valsecchi was Arden’s Luiz Razia, and only four-thousandths of a second behind him was Carlin’s Max Chilton.
Traffic was something of an issue throughout qualifying, and one driver, Coloni’s Fabio Onidi, was handed a three place penalty for impeding Rodolfo Gonzalez. Chilton also complained about the traffic, which he claimed might have cost him an even better result, but also hailed the session as his best ever.
Grid for Malaysian Feature Race
Grid for Malaysian Feature Race
1. | Davide Valsecchi | 1:45.494 |
2. | Luiz Razia | 1:45.554 |
3. | Max Chilton | 1:45.558 |
4. | Stefano Coletti | 1:45.577 |
5. | Fabio Leimer | 1:45.588 |
6. | James Calado | 1:45.638 |
7. | Jolyon Palmer | 1:45.758 |
8. | Giedo van der Garde | 1:45.773 |
9. | Felipe Nasr | 1:45.942 |
10. | Johnny Cecotto, Jr. | 1:46.012 |
11. | Fabrizio Crestani | 1:46.138 |
12. | Fabio Onidi1 | 1:45.810 |
13. | Stéphane Richelmi | 1:46.138 |
14. | Josef Král | 1:46.160 |
15. | Esteban Gutiérrez | 1:46.186 |
16. | Tom Dillmann | 1:46.264 |
17. | Rio Haryanto | 1:46.392 |
18. | Nathanaël Berthon | 1:46.428 |
19. | Nigel Melker | 1:46.489 |
20. | Marcus Ericsson | 1:46.557 |
21. | Jon Lancaster | 1:46.662 |
22. | Julián Leal | 1:46.868 |
23. | Rodolfo Gonzalez | 1:46.962 |
24. | Simon Trummer | 1:47.004 |
25. | Ricardo Teixeira | 1:48.113 |
26. | Giancarlo Serenelli | 1:49.620 |
1 Fabio Onidi handed a three place penalty for impeding Rodolfo Gonzalez
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