By Editor on Friday, March 22, 2013

GP2 Media Service

Rapax’s Stefano Coletti has taken the early lead in the GP2 championship after setting the fastest time in qualifying in Malaysia.

Coletti’s time edged out James Calado by 0.004s, with the same difference separating Calado from Felipe Nasr in third place.

Fabio Leimer was fourth, ahead of top rookie Mitch Evans in fifth place.

The main talking point from the thirty minute session revolved around an incident between Sam Bird and Johnny Cecotto.

Bird held Cecotto up through the fast Turn 6, for which he was later awarded a three place penalty.

Cecotto retaliated by driving Bird off the road and onto the grass before Turn 7.

The Venezuelan was excluded from the results and will start from last place for the feature race.

1 18 S. Coletti Rapax 8 1:44.280 191.357 16:13:21
2 3 J. Calado ART Grand Prix 8 1:44.284 0.004 191.350 16:25:16
3 9 F. Nasr Carlin 11 1:44.288 0.008 0.004 191.343 16:20:24
4 8 F. Leimer Racing Engineering 8 1:44.463 0.183 0.175 191.022 16:06:12
5 6 M. Evans Arden International 12 1:44.618 0.338 0.020 190.739 16:23:35
6 17 R. Haryanto Barwa Addax Team 10 1:44.681 0.401 0.063 190.624 16:20:53
7 24 R. Binder Venezuela GP Lazarus 9 1:44.687 0.407 0.006 190.613 16:12:22
8 11 S. Bird RUSSIAN TIME 9 1:44.598 0.318 0.135 190.776 16:23:28
9 19 S. Trummer Rapax 14 1:44.692 0.412 0.005 190.604 16:24:54
10 12 T. Dillmann RUSSIAN TIME 11 1:44.731 0.451 0.039 190.533 16:08:47
11 7 J. Leal Racing Engineering 11 1:44.732 0.452 0.001 190.532 16:19:12
12 14 S. Canamasas Caterham Racing 12 1:44.761 0.481 0.029 190.479 16:06:06
13 1 M. Ericsson DAMS 10 1:44.766 0.486 0.005 190.470 16:15:53
14 26 A. Quaife-Hobbs MP Motorsport 14 1:45.191 0.911 0.403 189.700 16:26:18
15 2 S. Richelmi DAMS 11 1:45.262 0.982 0.071 189.572 16:18:23
16 22 C. Daly Hilmer Motorsport 12 1:45.289 1.009 0.027 189.524 16:21:00
17 20 N. Berthon Trident Racing 11 1:45.378 1.098 0.089 189.364 16:20:10
18 21 K. Ceccon Trident Racing 12 1:45.491 1.211 0.113 189.161 16:20:07
19 15 Q. MA Caterham Racing 10 1:45.497 1.217 0.006 189.150 16:23:55
20 27 D. De Jong MP Motorsport 13 1:45.522 1.242 0.025 189.105 16:23:48
21 4 D. Abt ART Grand Prix 9 1:45.593 1.313 0.071 188.978 16:14:20
22 10 J. Palmer Carlin 10 1:45.662 1.382 0.069 188.855 16:02:19
23 16 J. Rosenzweig Barwa Addax Team 11 1:45.708 1.428 0.046 188.772 16:06:44
24 23 P. Varhaug Hilmer Motorsport 12 1:45.830 1.550 0.122 188.555 16:19:56
25 25 K. Giovesi Venezuela GP Lazarus 12 1:45.985 1.705 0.155 188.279 16:17:05
5 J. Cecotto Arden International 10 1:44.788 0.508 0.022 190.430 16:21:48

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