Background 2014 Bahrain GP2 Series round

bahrain international circuit, race held.

the 2014 bahrain gp2 series round first of eleven scheduled events in 2014. held on 5 , 6 april 2014 @ bahrain international circuit in sakhir, , run in support of 2014 bahrain grand prix. races contested thirteen teams of 2 drivers each. teams were: dams, carlin, art grand prix, racing engineering, russian time, trident, campos racing, mp motorsport, rapax, arden international, caterham racing, hilmer motorsport , lazarus. tyre supplier pirelli brought 2 types of tyre race: 2 dry compounds (yellow-banded soft options , orange-banded hard primes ).

the final mass test session before new season took place @ track on 19–21 march. on first day, daniel abt set fastest lap of morning session time of 1 minute , 40.676 seconds saw session twice disrupted when takuya izawa stopped on track , simon trummer abandoned car after hitting turn ten kerb. alexander rossi set quickest lap of day in afternoon session one-minute , 40.604 seconds lap. rio haryanto recorded fastest lap of 3 days, one-minute , 39.129 seconds in second day s morning session, , daniël de jong paced afternoon session time of 1 minute , 40.508 seconds. in third (and final) day, jon lancaster fastest driver in morning session lap of 1 minute , 39.693 seconds, , abt quickest in afternoon session time of 1 minute , 41.061 seconds.