With the first free practice session on the Italian Vallelunga track yesterday, the new Euroseries 3000 season got under way.
At the end of the 30 minutes the best time was set by Nicolas Prost (Cerveza Sol – ELK Motorsport), son of the 4-times World Champion Alain Prost, who clocked the best time of the day in 1’26’’091. He was just a tenth ahead of the two GP Racing drivers: the Spanish Roldan Rodriguez (1’26’’118) and the Italian Fabio Onidi (1’26’’188).
Good performance also for the second driver from the Cerveza Sol – ELK Motorsport team, Luiz Razia, who brought his Lola B02/50 to fourth place, just 262 thousands of a second off the pace, followed by the BMW Sauber F1 test driver Marko Asmer (1’26’’642) on his second day with the TP Formula team.
Today five drivers ended split by less than six tenth, which shows the great technical level reached by Euroseries 3000.
The second session of free practice and the qualifying for the first 2008 starting grid will take place.this morning
Nicolas Prost - Cerveza Sol – ELK Motorsport“We did a great job and we showed the results, even if we have to keep on working hard for the qualifying”
Roldan Rodriguez – GP Racing“Today we managed to complete our schedale again for the qualifying and races preparation without technical problems. Despite the very different track conditions compared to yesterday, we managed to set a good time and that's why I'm quite confident looking forward to the qualyfing.”
Fabio Onidi – GP Racing“Comparing to yesterday the track was much more slippery. We did setup testing for the qualifying and we are satisfied. Today we completed again our schedale without problems”
Vallelunga – Free practice 1
1 Nicolas Prost – Cerveza Sol - ELK Motorsport 1’26’’091 – 16 laps2 Roldan Rodriguez – GP Racing 1’26’’118 – 14 laps3 Fabio Onidi – GP Racing 1’26’’188 – 14 laps 4 Luiz Razia – Cerveza Sol - ELK Motorsport 1’26’’353 – 15 laps5 Asmer Marko – TP Formula 1’26’’642 – 14 laps6 Fabio Beretta - Q8 OILS/HACHE - ELK Motorsport 1’27’’278 – 14 laps7 Omar Leal – Durango – 1’27’'319 – 12 laps8 Francesco Dracone – Emmebi Motorsport 1’27’’591 – 16 laps9 Matteo Cozzari – Emilio De Villota Motorsport 1’28’’840 – 13 laps10 Juan Ramon Zapata – Emmebi Motorsport 1’29’’039 – 5 laps
