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Monza GP2: Stoffel Vandoorne snatches pole position from Arthur Pic

Stoffel Vandoorne scored his second GP2 pole position on the trot for ART Grand Prix at Monza on Friday afternoon

The McLaren protege, who also took pole , stood in the pits and watched his rivals fail to beat his time in the closing seconds after he had timed his second run on fresh tyres early.

The Belgian's 1m31.707s was 0.219 seconds clear of practice pacesetter Arthur Pic, who will start second for Campos Racing.

Pic was twice poised to set faster laps, but had a huge moment at Parabolica and another effort was hindered by Caterham's Rio Haryanto at Ascari much to his chagrin.

Mitch Evans will start third for Russian Time, recovering well from an off at Lesmo 2 on his first flying lap of the session.

Series leader Jolyon Palmer qualified fourth for DAMS, this despite a late-session run-in at Parabolica with his Nemesis from Budapest, Johnny Cecotto Jr.

UPDATE: Palmer disqualified from qualifying

Raffaele Marciello was fifth fastest for Racing Engineering, ahead of Simon Trummer and Stephane Richelmi.

Title contender Felipe Nasr will start down in eighth, ahead of Carlin team-mate Julian Leal.

Series newcomer Pierre Gasly qualified 23rd for Caterham, just two places behind Cecotto.

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix 1m31.707s -
2 Arthur Pic Campos Racing 1m31.926s 0.219s
3 Mitch Evans RT RUSSIAN TIME 1m31.934s 0.227s
4 Raffaele Marciello Racing Engineering 1m32.124s 0.417s
5 Simon Trummer Rapax 1m32.137s 0.430s
6 Stephane Richelmi DAMS 1m32.150s 0.443s
7 Felipe Nasr Carlin 1m32.310s 0.603s
8 Julian Leal Carlin 1m32.343s 0.636s
9 Andre Negrao Arden International 1m32.354s 0.647s
10 Rio Haryanto Caterham Racing 1m32.361s 0.654s
11 Daniel Abt Hilmer Motorsport 1m32.385s 0.678s
12 Stefano Coletti Racing Engineering 1m32.412s 0.705s
13 Kimiya Sato Campos Racing 1m32.413s 0.706s
14 Marco Sorensen MP Motorsport 1m32.419s 0.712s
15 Jon Lancaster Hilmer Motorsport 1m32.422s 0.715s
16 Takuya Izawa ART Grand Prix 1m32.435s 0.728s
17 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 1m32.473s 0.766s
18 Rene Binder Arden International 1m32.483s 0.776s
19 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax 1m32.486s 0.779s
20 Johnny Cecotto Jr. Trident 1m32.533s 0.826s
21 Sergio Canamasas Trident 1m32.624s 0.917s
22 Pierre Gasly Caterham Racing 1m32.826s 1.119s
23 Artem Markelov RT RUSSIAN TIME 1m32.881s 1.174s
24 Nathanael Berthon Venezuela GP Lazarus 1m32.912s 1.205s
25 Sergio Campana Venezuela GP Lazarus 1m33.409s 1.702s
- Jolyon Palmer DAMS - -

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