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Spa GP2: Vandoorne sets practice pace on home soil
GP2 points leader Stoffel Vandoorne kicked off his home race weekend in style by topping the timesheets in Saturday's practice session.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Aug 21, 2015, 2:25 PM
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The McLaren-backed Belgian ousted Alexander Rossi from the top spot just over 10 minutes into the session with a time of 1m57.499s, going two tenths quicker than the Californian.
Vandoorne was then able to shave a further 0.013s off his benchmark on his next flying lap to record a 1m57.486s, which would go unchallenged for the remainder of the session as the drivers switched their focus to longer runs thereafter.
Mitch Evans slotted into second, 0.154s behind Vandoorne, demoting Rossi to third place.
Hungary feature race winner Alex Lynn was fourth fastest, 0.347s off the pace and just eight thousandths clear of fellow Briton Oliver Rowland in his second GP2 outing of the season - although the MP Motorsport driver ground to a halt on his way back to the pits.
In the dying stages of the session, Lynn's DAMS teammate Pierre Gasly jumped from 13th to sixth, with Sergey Sirotkin demoted to seventh and Arthur Pic, who ended the session with a spin into the barriers, being pushed down to eighth.
Completing the top 10 were Jordan King and Raffaele Marciello, who came to a stop at the pit exit midway through the session but was able to resume.
Marciello's new Trident teammate Gustav Malja was less fortunate, his debut GP2 session coming to a premature halt after a spin at the final chicane.
Practice times:
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap 1 Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix 1'57.486 2 Mitch Evans RUSSIAN TIME 1'57.640 0.154 3 Alexander Rossi Racing Engineering 1'57.731 0.245 4 Alex Lynn DAMS 1'57.833 0.347 5 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1'57.841 0.355 6 Pierre Gasly DAMS 1'57.871 0.385 7 Sergey Sirotkin Rapax 1'58.108 0.622 8 Arthur Pic Campos Racing 1'58.141 0.655 9 Jordan King Racing Engineering 1'58.188 0.702 10 Raffaele Marciello Trident 1'58.231 0.745 11 Norman Nato Arden International 1'58.249 0.763 12 Sergio Canamasas Daiko Team Lazarus 1'58.343 0.857 13 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 1'58.446 0.960 14 Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 1'58.463 0.977 15 Richie Stanaway Status Grand Prix 1'58.496 1.010 16 Andre Negrao Arden International 1'58.744 1.258 17 Rio Haryanto Campos Racing 1'58.822 1.336 18 Nathanael Berthon Daiko Team Lazarus 1'58.866 1.380 19 Julian Leal Carlin 1'58.884 1.398 20 Marlon Stockinger Status Grand Prix 1'59.202 1.716 21 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1'59.209 1.723 22 Nick Yelloly Hilmer Motorsport 1'59.232 1.746 23 Robert Visoiu Rapax 1'59.610 2.124 24 Sean Gelael Carlin 2'00.683 3.197 25 Gustav Malja Trident 2'01.194 3.708
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