Alex Lynn has crunched last year's numbers with his DAMS team engineers and admits he is heading back to Monaco feeling confident as he looks to build on a profitable first weekend of the 2016 GP2 Series.

The 22-year-old from Dunmow is back in one of motorsports most glamorous locations as the GP2 Series links up with the Formula One calendar for the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.

Lynn has headed to the principality on the back of winning the sprint race at the season's opener in Spain so is feeling confident in the speed he has in his DAMS Racing car.

It is the Essex man's second time competing in Monaco in GP2 and he'll be looking for better fortune than he had last year as a mistake in a rainy qualifying session made it tough for him and he came away with no points.

However, Lynn now feels it wasn't as bad as it seemed at the time and looking at the data again has given him renewed confidence.

He said: "Last year was very difficult and it wasn’t what the DAMS team and I had been dreaming of before we arrived.

"We were unlucky with a missed communication in wet qualifying and that really hampered the whole event.

"But last week, when we did all our research back at the DAMS base at Le Mans, we saw that on pace it wasn’t the horror show that the results suggested. "So I’m taking a lot of confidence there this weekend and there’s no reason why we can’t do well.

"Before last year street circuits had always been a happy hunting ground for me, having won at the Macau Grand Prix and the Norisring in Formula 3, and done well at Pau in my rookie F3 season.

"Having said that, results on street circuits don’t come easy and I know that more than any other person.

"It takes a lot of hard work and commitment to be quick.

"Obviously it’s really hard to overtake in Monaco, so sometimes you need strategy or just plain old luck to get you up the order, but you can’t rely on that. "It’s the same on all street circuits and we’ve just got to put ourselves at the front with strong pace, and then I can drive my own race.

"After qualifying, we’ll have a strong idea of where we are – and there’s no reason why that can’t be right up there."

Following qualifying on Thursday afternoon, the GP2 feature race will take place in Monaco on Friday at 10.15am (British time), with the sprint race on Saturday at 3.10pm.