GP2 christened the now Baku City Circuit with the first official session on the circuit on Friday morning.
First practice in Baku for the Formula One feeder series was topped by Frenchman Norman Nato, who set a lap of 1 minute, 55.394 seconds.
The championship leader beat Antonio Giovinazzi to the top spot by three tenths of a second with Sergey Sirotkin completing the top three.
Sirotkin's ART team mate, Honda junior Nobuharu Matsushita, parked his car at turn three in the closing stages of the session.
Daniël de Jong endured a difficult session, setting the slowest time of 2 minutes 1.794 seconds.
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