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.
Jolyon Palmer topped the timesheets for Carlin in Friday morning practice at Monza for the ninth round of the 2013 GP2 Series and the final weekend of the championship in Europe.
Arden team mates Johnny Cecotto Jr. and Mitch Evans put in impressive displays in a split qualifying to claim the front row for Friday morning's feature race.
Russian Time scored its maiden win in the GP2 Series as Sam Bird took the lead early in the sprint race and then held off Felipe Nasr to the line by inches.
Fabio Leimer didn't let Racing Engineering down on Saturday, converting his emphatic pole position to an equally comfortable feature race win in Bahrain.
Fabio Leimer proved unstoppable in qualifying, repeating his dominating practice form to once again go faster by a second as he claimed the feature pole.
Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer set a blistering lap early in the Friday practice session that left him a full second clear of the rest of the field.
Wet track conditions first thing gave teams the chance to test their rain and intermediate tyres, but did nothing for the times on the third day at Jerez.
Arden's Luiz Razia looked to have lost touch with the pack of five leaders in the Sunday sprint race, but then surged to the front in a thrilling finish to an eventful Valencia sprint race.
Lotus GP's Esteban Guti?rrez was back on the top step of the podium for the first time in a year, after a succession of safety cars denied his team mate James Calado victory.
The iSport International team has reached the end of its tether with the glitch-prone #8 car, which once again broke down during the race weekend in Spain.
Charles Pic was celebrating his second win in consecutive weekends after leading the race from pole position and through two restarts after incidents triggered safety car appearances.
Mike Conway admits he could scarcely believe F1 knocked on his door again when Mercedes Grand Prix invited him to try out for the team in the special young driver test at Jerez this week - and he acknowledges that the opportunity could change everything...
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