The Dutch topped Day 2 with a laptime of 1:25.291 set this morning Morning session This morning’s cooler temperatures improved both track conditions and laptimes in Jerez de la Frontera. The second day of GP2 Series winter testing saw a shuffle on the grid as only nine drivers ran in the same car as they did yesterday, namely Oliver Turvey (iSport), Luiz Razia (Piquet GP), Rodolfo Gonzalez (Arden), Ricardo Teixeira and James Jakes (Super Nova), Sam Bird (DAMS), Francesco Castellacci (Durango), Philip Eng (Ocean Racing) and Michael Herck (DPR). Ten new racers entered the entry list for today’s session with some names well-known to the GP2 circus (Kamui Kobayashi, Dani Clos and Alberto Valerio) and some rookies (Marcus Ericsson, Sten Pentus, Jan Charouz, Filip Salaquarda, William Bratt, Fabio Leimer and Vladimir Arabadzhiev). But it was the more experienced drivers who set the pace this morning, lead by Giedo van der Garde at Barwa Addax Team clocking in the best laptime of a 1:25.291 and over a tenth clear of Valerio driving for Party Poker Racing.com SC. Behind the pair, Kobayashi – freshly back from running with Toyota F1 in Suzuka last Friday during Formula One Practice sessions 1 and 2, at the wheel of Fat Burner Racing Engineering was also in good form and completed the Top three.
Morning results
1. Giedo van der Garde NED Barwa Addax Team 1:25.291 34 2. Alberto Valerio BRA Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:25.434 25 3. Kamui Kobayashi JAP Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:25.520 30 4. Jérôme d’Ambrosio BEL ART Grand Prix 1:25.525 28 5. Christian Vietoris GER DAMS 1:25.575 40 6. Luiz Razia BRA Piquet GP 1:25.734 27 7. Oliver Turvey GBR iSport International 1:25.759 26 8. Diego Nunes BRA Barwa Addax Team 1:25.783 38 9. Sam Bird GBR DAMS 1:25.911 38 10. James Jakes GBR Super Nova Racing 1:25.972 24 11. Philip Eng AUT Ocean Racing Technology 1:26.170 31 12. Stefano Coletti MON Trident Racing 1:26.248 33 13. Marcus Ericsson SWE iSport International 1:26.317 37 14. Dani Clos ESP Telmex Arden International 1:26.357 37 15. Michael Herck ROM DPR 1:26.496 25 16. Ricardo Teixeira POR Super Nova Racing 1:26.632 39 17. Fabio Leimer SUI Ocean Racing Technology 1:26.975 33 18. William Bratt GBR Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:26.990 38 19. Rodolfo Gonzalez VEN Telmex Arden International 1:27.083 39 20 Josef Kral CZE Piquet GP 1:27.170 44 21. Sten Pentus EST Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:27.175 40 22. Filip Salaquarda CZE Trident Racing 1:27.229 44 23. Vladimir Arabadhziev BUL DPR 1:28.516 29 24. Francesco Castellaci ITA Durango 1:28.682 30 25. Jan Charouz CZE ART Grand Prix 1:29.205 28
Afternoon session Once again, the temperature rose in Spain in the afternoon and this morning’s laptimes could not be improved. In a trouble free session, Kobayashi at Racing Engineering topped the times two tenths ahead of Jérôme d’Ambrosio who joined ART Grand Prix today and five tenths clear of this morning’s quickest man on track van der Garde. The Dutch tops the combined times for the day. With a laptime of a 1:25.575 set this morning, German Christian Vietoris at DAMS was the fastest rookie of the day. The three-day test session will conclude tomorrow with five times Rallye World Champion Sébastien Loeb joining DPR.
Afternoon results
1. Kamui Kobayashi JAP Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:26.105 26 2. Jerome d’Ambrosio BEL ART Grand Prix 1:26.358 24 3. Giedo Van der Garde NED Barwa Addax Team 1:26.700 25 4. Diego Nunes BRA Barwa Addax Team 1:26.829 26 5. James Jakes GBR Super Nova Racing 1:26.956 22 6. Fabio Leimer SUI Ocean Racing Technology 1:27.007 29 7. Marcus Ericsson SWE iSport International 1:27.099 31 8. Michael Herck ROM DPR 1:27.236 15 9. Christian Vietoris GER DAMS 1:27.270 30 10. Luiz Razia BRA Piquet GP 1:27.301 30 11. Stefano Coletti MON Trident Racing 1:27.352 26 12. Sten Pentus EST Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:27.405 21 13. Dani Clos ESP Telmex Arden International 1:27.489 23 14. Alberto Valerio BRA Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:27.595 25 15. Rodolfo Gonzalez VEN Telmex Arden International 1:27.627 30 16. Josef Kral CZE Piquet GP 1:27.744 29 17. Sam Bird GBR DAMS 1:27.781 22 18. Filip Salaquarda CZE Trident Racing 1:27.823 23 19. Oliver Turvey GBR iSport International 1:27.927 26 20 Philip Eng AUT Ocean Racing Technology 1:27.992 32 21. Francesco Castellacci ITA Durango 1:28.421 27 22. Ricardo Teixeira POR Super Nova Racing 1:28.458 26 23. Vladimir Arabadhziev BUL DPR 1:29.085 25 24. Jan Charouz CZE ART Grand Prix 1:29.382 20 25. William Bratt GBR Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:30.160 12
