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Qualifying report

Hungary GP2: Gasly takes crushing pole in qualifying

Prema Racing's Pierre Gasly maintained the dominant lead he had in practice to top the GP2 qualifying at the Hungaroring by more than half a second.

Pole position for Pierre Gasly, PREMA Racing

Pole position for Pierre Gasly, PREMA Racing

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The start of the session saw every team but Prema exit the pitlane right away, with Sergey Sirotkin leading fellow ART teammate Nobuharu Matsushita by three tenths.

However, once the Italian team's duo emerged from the pits, practice pacesetter Gasly lowered Sirotkin's benchmark by a whole seven tenths.

Following the mid-session pitstops, Gasly made small improvements to end up with a time of 1m25.612s.

The Red Bull junior ended up more than half a second at the session's end, with Sirotkin joining him on the front row.

The duo's teammates will fill the second row for tomorrow's feature race, with rookie driver Antonio Giovinazzi taking third, just half a tenth ahead of Matsushita.

Racing Engineering's Norman Nato was the best of the rest in fifth, more than nine tenths slower than his French compatriot Gasly.

Luca Ghiotto and Arthur Pic will start sixth and seventh respectively, with Raffaele Marciello edging out Jordan King and Marvin Kirchhofer for eighth.

DAMS duo Alex Lynn and Nicholas Latifi ended up just outside the top 10, the former running wide several times during the session and having a laptime deleted as a result.

Qualifying results

 

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