Testing - Vallelunga, Italy

A second full day of testing took place at Vallelunga circuit yesterday for nine Superleague Formula teams in extremely hot and humid conditions.

The best times were set in the closing stages of the day when the weather was slightly cooler and all teams improved on yesterday’s times with the front runners, AC Milan (Robert Doornbos) and Borussia Dortmund (Davide Rigon) finding six tenths and eight tenths of a second respectively. Local team, AS Roma (Enrico Toccacelo) also improved by just under a second to put them in third place while Galatasaray (Alessandro Pier Guidi) found six tenths of a second.

However, it was not to be all plain sailing for the Anderlecht car this morning. A fuel line disconnected and the car was engulfed in flames. This has put paid to its test. The Glasgow Rangers car also took to the track for the first time today in the hands of Scottish star, Ryan Dalziel for two tentative laps at the end of the session. These were installation laps only and the car will be out in action tomorrow.

THURSDAY’S TIMESNote – all timings are provisionalP/ Team/ Laps/ Time1 AC Milan, Scuderia Playteam Sarafree 51 1.23.1842 Borussia Dortmund, Zakspeed 42 1.23.1923 AS Roma, Fisichella 41 1.23.4744 Galatasaray, Scuderia Playteam Sarafree 56 1.23.4755 Flamengo, Astromega 42 1.24.9506 Olympiacos, GU Racing 28 1.25.3067 FC Basel, GU Racing 19 1.25.8498 Anderlecht, Astromega 26 1.26.0349 Glasgow Rangers, Team West Tec 2 No time

The complete Superleague Formula calendar includes Donington Park (August 30-31), Nurburgring (September 20-21), Zolder (October 4-5), Estoril (October 18-19), Vallelunga (November 1-2) and Jerez (November 22-23)