Norman Nato ends GP2 official practice session on top ahead - UPDATE

/By Azernews/

By Nigar Abbasova

The practice session of the GP2 series ended in Baku, with twenty two drivers competing in the race.

Championship leader Norman Nato was fastest in the GP2 series. Nato ultimately set the pace for Racing Engineering with a 1m55.394s.

Runner-up is a pilot from Italy representing Prema Racing Antonio Jiovinacci with the result of 1:55.719, the third is Sergei Sirotkin representing ART, Russia. His result is 1m56.093s. Pierre Gasly and Oliver Rowland completed the top five.

The 45-minute GP2 practice was the very first session on the new track. The eighth round of the 2016 session of the F1 European Grand Prix will start on June 17, 2016.

As much as 11 teams comprised of 2 pilots will participate in the race. The length of the circuit is 6 km. The width of the widest section of the track is 13 meters while the narrowest part is 7.6 meters.

Baku City Circuit is the second longest F1 track on the calendar, with a length slightly over six kilometers as an anti-clockwise layout. Many describe this track as the most complex, entertaining and very curious, for both racers and spectators.