Giovinazzi, Jeffri excluded from qualifying due to tyre pressures

Giovinazzi, who is second in the standings, was set to start tomorrow's race from the front row, beaten by only half a tenth by points leader Pierre Gasly.

However, one tyre on his car was below the permitted pressure limit and he was ordered to the back of the grid as a result.

Arden's Nabil Jeffri claimed his first top 10 qualifying result but had two tyres in breach of the regulations and will join Giovinazzi on the last row as a result.

The penalties promote Artem Markelov to second place on the grid, with Arthur Pic and Mitch Evans now starting right behind the top two.

Revised qualifying results

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Powerteam	1'31.199
2	10	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME	1'31.548	0.349
3	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1'31.617	0.418
4	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1'31.666	0.467
5	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1'31.710	0.511
6	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1'31.775	0.576
7	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1'31.816	0.617
8	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1'31.845	0.646
9	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1'31.855	0.656
10	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1'31.864	0.665
11	9	Raffaele Marciello	RUSSIAN TIME	1'31.986	0.787
12	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1'32.037	0.838
13	19	Marvin Kirchhofer	Carlin	1'32.172	0.973
14	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1'32.192	0.993
15	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	1'32.196	0.997
16	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1'32.215	1.016
17	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1'32.481	1.282
18	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	1'33.071	1.872
19	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1'33.269	2.070
20	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1'33.929	2.730
21	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Powerteam	1'31.253	0.054
22	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1'31.795	0.596