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.
Fabio Leimer didn't let Racing Engineering down on Saturday, converting his emphatic pole position to an equally comfortable feature race win in Bahrain.
A restructuring at Caterham across its GP2 and F1 teams means that China's Ma Qing Hua appears to be without a seat, replaced in the feeder series by Alexander Rossi.
Tom Dillmann will be back in the Rapax car this weekend at Hockenheim, while Venezuela GP Lazarus is handing Sergio Canamasas a series d?but replacing Fabrizio Crestani.