Test Times: Paul Ricard 10-06 AM

10/06/2008
NEWS STORY

After three rounds, the thirteen GP2 Series teams make a stop at Le Castellet for the last test session until the end of the 2008 season. Only 23 drivers participated in this session with Adrian Valles (BCN Competicion) currently in Le Mans, Davide Valsecchi (Durango) still recovering, and FMS International running only with Roldan Rodriguez.

Pastor Maldonado (right) was the quickest this morning in a 1:13.291 at the wheel of his Piquet Sports car. The Venezuelan is closely followed by Bruno Senna who is currently co-leading the championship alongside Giorgio Pantano. In third, Andreas Zuber finishes in front of Javier Villa. Karun Chandhok completes the Top 5.

GP2 Technical director, Didier Perrin said: "This morning, we have tested four different engine- gearbox strategy upgrades on four different cars. As we are very satisfied with the results we will try them on a larger number of cars this afternoon in order to obtain this evening a common strategy which we will validate on all cars tomorrow."

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Maldonado Piquet Sports 1:13.291 -
2 Senna iSport Intl 1:13.301 0.010
3 Zuber Piquet Sports 1:13.366 0.075
4 Villa Racing Engineering 1:13.647 0.356
5 Chandhok iSport Intl 1:13.665 0.374
6 Pantano Racing Engineering 1:13.779 0.488
7 Petrov Barwa Intl Campos Team 1:13.902 0.611
8 D'Ambrosio DAMS 1:13.920 0.629
9 Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:13.959 0.668
10 Soucek BCN Competicion 1:13.961 0.670
11 Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1:13.973 0.682
12 Kobayashi DAMS 1:14.069 0.778
13 Parente Super Nova Racing 1:14.115 0.824
14 di Grassi Barwa Intl Campos Team 1:14.280 0.989
15 Conway Trident Racing 1:14.327 1.036
16 Buurman Trust Team Arden 1:14.496 1.205
17 Buemi Trust Team Arden 1:14.508 1.217
18 Nunes DPR 1:14.643 1.352
19 Bakkerud Super Nova Racing 1:14.671 1.380
20 Rodriguez FMS Intl 1:14.875 1.584
21 Tung Trident Racing 1:14.888 1.597
22 Valerio Durango 1:15.148 1.857
23 Herck DPR 1:15.425 2.134

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Published: 10/06/2008
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