Russian Time's Sam Bird was able to fend off stiff competition from Fabio Leimer and Jolyon Palmer to claim pole position for Saturday's GP2 Series feature race at Monza.
Ocean Racing Technology have brought in Brendon Hartley to replace Jon Lancaster at very short notice ahead of the Bahrain weekend's events starting on Friday morning.
Dani Clos: I feel very lucky to be driving a F1 car again, like I did in 2008. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make it to an F1 Test. I would like to thank the whole HRT team beforehand for putting their trust in me.
Crash.net follows frontrunning GP2 Series outfit Racing Engineering at the Spanish Grand Prix, one of its busiest race weekends of the year....
by Craig Llewellyn