Monza GP2: Gasly leads Giovinazzi in second straight Prema 1-2

After climbing into the lead with both of his flyers in the first part of the session, Gasly lowered his own benchmark by three tenths in the dying stages with a time of 1m31.199s.

He set the fastest second sector in his final effort and, although he eventually did not improve with that lap, he ended up staying in first as teammate Antonio Giovinazzi fell just 0.054s short.

Behind the Prema duo, Russian Time's Artem Markelov and Rapax's Arthur Pic will share the second row, the latter recovering from being impeded by Alex Lynn on the first lap of his second stint.

Mitch Evans secured his best starting position since Monaco in fifth, narrowly edging out British duo Jordan King and Lynn.

Nabil Jeffri claimed his top qualifying result in eighth, as title contender Sergey Sirotkin could only take ninth.

Norman Nato completed the top 10, beating Luca Ghiotto and Oliver Rowland by one and two hundredths respectively.

Qualifying results

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Powerteam	1'31.199
2	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Powerteam	1'31.253	0.054
3	10	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME	1'31.548	0.349
4	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1'31.617	0.418
5	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1'31.666	0.467
6	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1'31.710	0.511
7	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1'31.775	0.576
8	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1'31.795	0.596
9	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1'31.816	0.617
10	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1'31.845	0.646
11	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1'31.855	0.656
12	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1'31.864	0.665
13	9	Raffaele Marciello	RUSSIAN TIME	1'31.986	0.787
14	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1'32.037	0.838
15	19	Marvin Kirchhofer	Carlin	1'32.172	0.973
16	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1'32.192	0.993
17	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	1'32.196	0.997
18	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1'32.215	1.016
19	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1'32.481	1.282
20	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	1'33.071	1.872
21	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1'33.269	2.070
22	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1'33.929	2.730