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Dominant Hockenheim Pole for Palmer for GP2’s 200th Race

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Current GP2 Series Championship leader Jolyon Palmer took pole position at Hockenheim to take the four points on offer to extend his lead over the chasing pack. It was the Britons third pole position of the season, and will start GP2’s 200th race from the front of the field.

The DAMS driver set the pole time on his opening effort of the session, and was never headed. He was even able to conserve some tyre usage by not completing his second flying lap.

Belgian driver Stoffel Vandoorne will join Palmer on the front row, but the ART Grand Prix driver was almost three tenths of a second adrift from the pole time. Free practice pace setter Stefano Coletti will start third for Racing Engineering, just ahead of super-sub Tom Dillmann, who posted the fourth best time of the session on his first start for the EQ8 Caterham Racing outfit.

Felipe Nasr will start the Feature race from fifth position, and will be hoping to be able to get on terms with Palmer up front to close the gap in the championship. The Carlin driver will be joined on the third row of the grid by Frenchman Arthur Pic, who continues to impress for Campos Racing.

Venezuelan Johnny Cecotto Jr will line-up seventh for Trident Racing, ahead of a disappointed Raffaele Marciello, who will feel should be higher up the grid after twice finding traffic on his quick laps in the final sector. Alexander Rossi will start ninth on his first appearance for Campos Racing, who see two cars in the top ten for the first time in 2014. The final place in the top ten will be taken up by Rapax driver Simon Trummer.

Two 2014 race winners struggled in qualifying, with Monaco Sprint race winner Stephane Richelmi eleventh for DAMS, and Silverstone Feature race winner Mitch Evans even lower in fifteenth for Russian Time.

Hockenheim Qualifying Result

POS DRIVER NAT TEAM TIME
1 Jolyon Palmer GBR DAMS 1:23.383
2 Stoffel Vandoorne BEL ART Grand Prix 1:23.665
3 Stefano Coletti MON Racing Engineering 1:23.722
4 Tom Dillmann FRA EQ8 Caterham Racing 1:23.776
5 Felipe Nasr BRZ Carlin 1:23.781
6 Arthur Pic FRA Campos Racing 1:23.859
7 Johnny Cecotto Jr VEN Trident Racing 1:23.860
8 Raffaele Marciello ITA Racing Engineering 1:23.918
9 Alexander Rossi USA Campos Racing 1:23.965
10 Simon Trummer SWI Rapax 1:23.983
11 Stephane Richelmi MON DAMS 1:24.024
12 Rene Binder AUT Arden International 1:24.094
13 Nathanael Berthon FRA Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:24.253
14 Daniel Abt GER Hilmer Motorsport 1:24.311
15 Mitch Evans NZL RT Russian Time 1:24.335
16 Takuya Izawa JAP ART Grand Prix 1:24.335
17 Julian Leal COL Carlin 1:24.421
18 Conor Daly USA Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:24.437
19 Jon Lancaster GBR Hilmer Motorsport 1:24.453
20 Andre Negrao BRZ Arden International 1:24.476
21 Artem Markelov RUS RT Russian Time 1:24.496
22 Rio Haryanto INO EQ8 Caterham Racing 1:24.502
23 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs GBR Rapax 1:24.590
24 Sergio Canamasas ESP Trident Racing 1:24.598
25 Marco Sorensen DEN MP Motorsport 1:24.888
26 Daniel de Jong NED MP Motorsport 1:25.189

 

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