Kamui Kobayashi quickest again in Shanghai
One week before the opening of the second season of the GP2 Asia Series, Toyota ace Kamui Kobayashi is definitely putting pressure on his rivals setting once more the fastest laptime of the day in a 1:45.203.
His teammate Jérôme d’Ambrosio finished fourth in a 1:46.242 this afternoon proving that the French team Dams might just be the team to beat. One man who could stop Kobayashi on his way to the win is Roldan Rodriguez on Piquet GP: he was the only man along with the Japanese to go under 1:46.
Sakon Yamamoto at the wheel of the ART car was third fastest of the day in a 1:46.071 very closely followed by Durango’s Valsecchi whose morning’s mechanical issues seemed to have been fully resolved. Belgian d’Ambrosio was fourth quickest while iSport’s rookie Van der Garde keeps on impressing ahead of Javier Villa on super Nova, Vitaly Petrov on Campos and another rookie Luiz Razia - who missed yesterday’s session - on the second Super Nova car.
The experienced Andreas Zuber on FMS rounds up the Top 10. This marks the end of the two-day test session.
The second season of the GP2 Asia Series Championship will open on Friday, October 16th with Free Practice at 10am, local time.
Shanghai – Test session Day 2 – Morning session
Driver Team Time Laps
1. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1 :45.871 19 2. Sakon Yamamoto ART Grand Prix 1 :46.071 36 3. Roldan Rodriguez Piquet GP 1 :46.447 33 4. Sergio Perez Barwa Int Campos Team 1 :46.715 24 5. Giedo Van der Garde GFH Team iSport 1 :46.719 8 6. Javier Villa Super Nova Racing 1 :46.878 8 7. Hamad AI Fardan GFH Team iSport 1 :46.958 26 8. Jerome D'Ambrosio Dams 1 :47.013 15 9. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Int. Campos Team 1 :47.042 19 10. Mika Maki Trust T eam Arden 1 :47.189 26 11. Nelson Philippe ART Grand Prix 1 :47.202 10 12. Andreas Zuber Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1 :47.227 28 13. James Jakes Super Nova Racing 1 :47.263 10 14. Luiz Razia Trust T eam Arden 1 :47.484 39 15. Earl Bamber My Team Qi-Meritus Mahara 1 :47.697 16 16. Luca Filippi BCN Competicion 1 :47.844 8 17. Diego Nunes Piquet GP 1 :48.115 31 18. Michael Herck DPR 1 :48.555 7 19. Chris Van der Drift Trident Racing 1 :48.559 22 20 Alex Yoong My Team Qi-Meritus Mahara 1 :48.592 24 21 Hiroki Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 1 :48.858 17 22 Ma Qing Hua DPR 1 :49.259 27 23 Giacomo Ricci Trident Racing 1 :49.486 16 24 Hiroki Yoshimoto Durango 1 :50.148 3 25 Kevin Nai Chia Chen Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1 :51.331 23 26 Davide Valsecchi Durango 2:38.699 3
Shanghai – Test session Day 2 – Afternoon session
Driver Team Time Laps
1. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1 :45.203 15 2. Roldan Rodriguez Piquet GP 1:45.814 12 3. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1:46?081 29 4. Jérôme d’Ambrosio Dams 1:46.242 23 5. Giedo Van der Garde GFH Team iSport 1:46.373 31 6. Javier Villa Super Nova Racing 1:46.541 20 7. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:46.603 14 8. Luiz Razia Trust Team Arden 1:46.660 25 9. Andreas Zuber Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:46.669 9 10. Mika Maki Trust Team Arden 1:46.725 24 11. Sakon Yamamoto ART Grand Prix 1:46.801 6 12. James Jakes Super Nova Racing 1:46.851 24 13. Earl Bamber My Team Qi- Meritus.Mahara 1:47.031 14 14. Sergio Perez Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:47.034 19 15. Hamad Al Fardan GFH Team iSport 1:47.075 23 16. Diego Nunes Piquet GP 1:47.111 25 17. Luca Filippi BCN Competicion 1:47.131 6 18. Nelson Philippe ART Grand Prix 1:47.221 12 19. Michael Herck DPR 1:47.226 19 20 Chris Van der Drift Trident Racing 1:47.438 21 21 Giacomo Ricci Trident Racing 1:47.640 13 22 Alex Yoong My Team Qi- Meritus.mahara 1:47.718 24 23 Ma Quing Hua DPR 1:48.044 16 24 Kevin Nai Chia Chen Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:50.637 15
