Davide Valsecchi kept his 100% record from qualifying this
season, taking pole again at Bahrain International Circuit. The DAMS driver posted a time of 1:41.200 for
pole, nearly 3 tenths of a second faster than Lotus GP’s Esteban Gutierrez, who
will be just behind Valsechhi on the grid.
Given that Valsecchi has already experienced victory in Bahrain, he
looks set to repeat the feat in tomorrow’s race. It was a good session for DAMS, as Valsecchi’s
team-mate Felipe Nasr qualified 3rd.
Sepang’s sprint race winner James Calado did not have such a
good session, as he set only the 8th fastest lap time of the
session. Thanks to Marcus Ericsson
having a 10-place grid penalty, however, he will start 7th. The Swedish iSport International driver
performed better than he did last round, and starting from 17th
looks set to cut through the field in front of him.
Luiz Razia, winner of the feature race at Sepang, will start
from 8th. Given that he had
previously won at Bahrain, and that he had performed better in free practice,
the Brazilian driver will likely be disappointed that he will not start from
higher up the grid.
Grid for Bahrain Feature Race
1. | Davide Valsecchi | 1:41.200 |
2. | Esteban Gutiérrez | 1:41.479 |
3. | Felipe Nasr | 1:41.785 |
4. | Fabio Leimer | 1:41.798 |
5. | Johnny Cecotto | 1:41.858 |
6. | Stéphane Richelmi | 1:41.862 |
7. | James Calado | 1:41.939 |
8. | Luiz Razia | 1:41.962 |
9. | Max Chilton | 1:41.980 |
10. | Rio Haryanto | 1:42.097 |
11. | Giedo van der Garde | 1:42.139 |
12. | Jolyon Palmer | 1:42.156 |
13. | Dani Clos | 1:42.158 |
14. | Tom Dillmann | 1:42.190 |
15. | Fabio Onidi | 1:42.374 |
16. | Rodolfo Gonzalez | 1:42.409 |
17. | Marcus Ericsson1 | 1:41.933 |
18. | Nathanaël Berthon | 1:42.427 |
19. | Julian Leal | 1:42.456 |
20. | Fabrizio Crestani | 1:42.706 |
21. | Stefano Coletti | 1:42.853 |
22. | Nigel Melker | 1:42.895 |
23. | Simon Trummer | 1:43.014 |
24. | Giancarlo Serenelli | 1:43.907 |
25. | Ricardo Teixeira | 1:44.078 |
26. | Brendon Hartley2 | 1:42.782 |
1Marcus Ericsson given a 10-place grid penalty from Malaysia
2Brendon Hartley given a 5-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Giedo van der Garde
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