Hungary GP2: Gasly leads Prema 1-2 in feature race

Gasly had gotten a good getaway from pole to lead the early stages of the race and comfortably rejoined first once all the pitstops have been completed.

While the Red Bull junior had maintained the lead off the line, both Giovinazzi and Norman Nato went past front-row starter Sergey Sirotkin.

Gasly opened up a massive advantage of 1.6s in just one lap, with Prema teammate Giovinazzi soon building a safe gap over Nato as well.

Having started on softs, the top four pitted over the course of two laps, with Gasly and Giovinazzi remaining as provisional leaders and Sirotkin jumping ahead of Nato with an audacious overtake.

Raffaele Marciello, seventh after the start, became the race leader following the stops of the frontrunners, the Italian leading Gustav Malja by over 10 seconds.

The Swede came under pressure from Luca Ghiotto and then Alex Lynn, when an overly ambitious move at Turn 1 saw Ghiotto give up a spot.

The trio was first to pit from those starting on hard compounds and could only rejoin in the lower half of the order.

Marciello, on the other hand, emerged in fourth, not far behind Sirotkin, who was right behind Giovinazzi.

The Russian started to put increasing pressure on Giovinazzi but the duo ended up finishing in an unchanged order with Gasly comfortably cruising to the finish at the front.

Marciello failed to make up ground from fourth, the Trident driver leading Arthur Pic and Nobuharu Matsushita.

Racing Engineering duo Nato and Jordan King completed the top eight, the latter taking the reverse-grid pole for the third time in a row.

The final two point-scoring finishes were secured by Russian Time's Artem Markelov and Campos Racing's Mitch Evans.

Arden's Jimmy Eriksson, who was last to pit, was set to finish eighth, only to retire on the final lap of the race.

Race results

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Gap
1	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Powerteam	-
2	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Powerteam	1.3
3	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	2.8
4	9	Raffaele Marciello	RUSSIAN TIME	7.6
5	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	9.9
6	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	12.8
7	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	17.7
8	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	21.9
9	10	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME	22.1
10	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	23.9
11	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	29.3
12	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	34.0
13	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	34.1
14	19	Marvin Kirchhofer	Carlin	36.4
15	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	38.5
16	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	42.3
17	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	51.7
18	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	63.5
19	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	85.1
20	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	88.0
21	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1 lap
22	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1 lap