Practice report
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Monza GP2: Gasly and Markelov set practice pace, both suffer car problems
GP2 championship leader Pierre Gasly was quickest in practice at Monza, leading Artem Markelov by 0.152s before both drivers stopped on the same straight.
David Gruz
Edited: Sep 2, 2016, 1:29 PM
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The practice session of the championship's final European venue was an eventful one, as the VSC was brought out three times.
It was first deployed for Jimmy Eriksson's car coming to a halt on the exit of the first chicane, leaving the Swede without a laptime in the session.
Championship leader Pierre Gasly took first from Artem Markelov at around 15 minutes into the session, but the cars of both drivers soon slowed down at the same time just a few metres away from each other.
The third and longest VSC stint came with 13 minutes to go after Philo Paz Armand spun while accelerating from the second Lesmo corner, breaking both his front and rear wing.
Despite not taking part after pulling over, Gasly's time of 1m31.990s remained the benchmark, with Markelov second and the other Prema of Antonio Giovinazzi taking third.
Campos driver Mitch Evans was fourth, with Jordan King ending up more than half a second off the pace in fifth.
Rookie trio Oliver Rowland, Luca Ghiotto and Marvin Kirchhofer completed the top eight, followed by Rapax's Arthur Pic and DAMS driver Alex Lynn.
Title contender Sergey Sirotkin ended up 11th, more than eight tenths slower than Gasly.
Practice results
Cla#DriverTeamTimeGap 1 21 
Pierre Gasly 
Prema Powerteam 1'31.990 2 10 
Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 1'32.142 0.152 3 20 Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Powerteam 1'32.225 0.235 4 7 
Mitch Evans 
Campos Racing 1'32.413 0.423 5 4 
Jordan King Racing Engineering 1'32.514 0.524 6 22 Oliver Rowland 
MP Motorsport 1'32.604 0.614 7 15 Luca Ghiotto Trident 1'32.666 0.676 8 19 
Marvin Kirchhofer Carlin 1'32.718 0.728 9 12 Arthur Pic Rapax 1'32.772 0.782 10 5 Alex Lynn DAMS 1'32.794 0.804 11 2 Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 1'32.809 0.819 12 6 
Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1'32.939 0.949 13 3 Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1'33.068 1.078 14 1 
Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1'33.121 1.131 15 8 
Sean Gelael Campos Racing 1'33.340 1.350 16 18 Sergio Canamasas Carlin 1'33.341 1.351 17 11 
Gustav Malja Rapax 1'33.421 1.431 18 24 
Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1'33.502 1.512 19 9 Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME 1'33.525 1.535 20 23 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 1'33.942 1.952 21 14 Philo Paz Armand Trident 1'34.021 2.031 22 25 Jimmy Eriksson Arden International
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