The  Piquet  Sports  Venezuelan  driver  was  the  fastest  this  morning  in  a  1:27.868  in Barcelona during the second testing of the 2008 GP2 Main Series.

After last week’s very encouraging first run of the 2008 GP2 chassis in Paul Ricard, the 13 teams gathered   this   week   in   Barcelona   for   a   second   two-day   testing.   The   opening   of   the   2008 championship  will  take  place  on  this  same  track  on  the  26th  of  April. 

Though  the  session  was stopped by a few red flags, nothing out of the ordinary happened. Pastor  Maldonado  topped  the  timing  sheet  after  the  three-hour  morning  session,  very  closely followed  by  iSport  International  Bruno  Senna,  ART  Grand  Prix  Luca  Filippi  and  rookie  Kamui Kobayashi at the wheel of his Dams car.  The first 18 cars posted times within a second of each other. The Afternoon session will start at 2pm local time.

Morning session Driver Team Time Laps

1. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports 1:27.868 17 2. Bruno Senna iSport International 1:27.940 21 3. Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:28.086 13 4. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:28.092 10 5. Vitaly Petrov Barwa International Campos Team 1:28.127 12 6. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:28.195 19 7. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering 1:28.263 17 8. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1:28.403 20 9. Alvaro Parente Super Nova Racing 1:28.534 23 10. Mike Conway Trident Racing 1:28.589 18 11. Andy Soucek Fisichella Motor Sport International 1:28.602 14 12. Adrian Valles Fisichella Motor Sport International 1:28.605 6 13. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports 1:28.609 15 14. Sébastien Buemi Trust Team Arden 1:28.621 21 15. Yelmer Buurman Trust Team Arden 1:28.660 23 16. Ben Hanley Barwa International Campos Team 1:28.703 23 17. Jérôme d’Ambrosio Dams 1:28.710 14 18. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing 1:28.749 18 19. Alberto Valerio Durango 1:29.308 25 20 Christian Bakkerud Super Nova Racing 1:29.362 17 21. Paolo Nocera BCN Competicion 1:29.560 13 22. Diego Nunes DPR 1:30.279 24 23. Michael Herck DPR 1:30.538 28 24. Milos Pavlovic BCN Competicion 1:31.759 5 25 Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1:38.259 9 26 Karun Chandhok iSport International -- --