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GP2: Maldonado Confirms Monaco Pole
Written by: Cassio Cortes
RACER Magazine   http://www.racer.com
05/22/2008 - 10:05 AM
Monte Carlo, Monaco
 
Maldonado: second consecutive pole at site of sole career win. (LAT Photo) ยป More Photos

Piquet Sports’ Pastor Maldonado showed once again there’s something about himself and Monaco, taking the pole position for tomorrow’s feature race with a solid 1:21.057 effort. Maldonado, the defending polesitter and race winner – his ’07 triumph at the Principality remains the sole victory of his GP2 career – had also paced this morning’s practice session.

Behind the Venezuelan came the iSport machine of Bruno Senna, himself also especially related to the Principality as his late uncle Ayrton remains the winningest man in Monaco GP history with six victories. The Brazilian trailed Maldonado by 0.178.

Trident’s Mike Conway was also close, just 0.048 further back. FMS’s Adrian Valles and Racing Engineering’s Giorgio Pantano completed the top-five. Championship points leader Romain Grosjean of the ART team will start from the seventh spot.

GP2 Series – Monaco qualifying results:

1) Pastor Maldonado, Piquet Sports, 1:21.057
2) Bruno Senna, iSport, 1:21.235 +0.178
3) Mike Conway, Trident, 1:21.283 +0.226
4) Adrian Valles, BCN, 1:21.368 +0.311
5) Giorgio Pantano, Racing Engineering, 1:21.466 +0.409
6) Karun Chandhok, iSport, 1:21.614 +0.557
7) Romain Grosjean,
ART, 1:21.663 +0.606
8) Sebastien Buemi, Arden, 1:21.663 +0.606
9) Jerome d'Ambrosio, DAMS, 1:21.773 +0.716
10) Alvaro Parente, Super Nova, 1:21.777 +0.720
11) Luca Filippi, ART, 1:21.849 +0.792
12) Vitaly Petrov, Campos, 1:21.907 +0.850
13) Adam Carroll, FMS, 1:21.981 +0.924
14) Christian Bakkerud, Super Nova, 1:22.210 +1.153
15) Ben Hanley , Campos, 1:22.697 +1.640
16) Kamui Kobayashi, DAMS, 1:22.785 +1.728
17) Yelmer Buurman, Arden, 1:22.802 +1.745
18) Javier Villa, Racing Engineering, 1:23.048 +1.991
19) Diego Nunes, DPR, 1:23.224 +2.167
20) Milos Pavlovic, BCN, 1:23.684 +2.627
21) Ho-Pin Tung, Trident, 1:23.798 +2.741
22) Alberto Valério, Durango, 1:24.037 +2.980
23) Roldan Rodriguez, FMS, 1:24.283 +3.226
24) Andi Zuber, Piquet Sports, 1:21.667 +0.610
25) Marcello Puglisi, Durango, 1:24.633 +3.576
26) Andy Soucek, DPR, no time
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