Super Nova driver quickest at Paul Ricard Wednesday in GP2 Series winter test

The second day of GP2 Series winter testing at Paul Ricard resumed today on a 3D configuration.

Super Nova James Jakes clocked in the quickest laptime of the day during the morning session in a 1:12.346. Although fastest in the afternoon session, Brazilian Luiz Razia at Addax could not edge out the Brit from the top spot. And Jakes confirmed his top form by signing the second best laptime of the afternoon session, two hundreds ahead of Frenchman Jules Bianchi.

The ART ace finished best rookie of the day. Other rookies impressed today with Christian Vietoris (Addax), Sam Bird (Arden), Oliver Turvey (iSport), Alexander Rossi (Racing Engineering) finishing in the top 10 in the morning imitated by William Bratt (Scuderia Coloni), Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean Racing) and Kazimeras Vasiliauskas (Trident) in the  afternoon,  Turvey  and  Bird  appearing  again  in  the  Top  10. 

During the  morning,  the  first  sixteen drivers ran within the same second while eighteen drivers ran within one second in the afternoon. Although third quickest this morning and untouchable yesterday, Michael Herck at DPR saw all his laptime of this afternoon session deleted due to the fact that his car was found underweight.

The same   misfortune   happened   to   rookie   Charles   Pic   at   the   wheel   of   the   Fat   Burner   Racing Engineering machine. The three-day test session will end today with British Jon Lancaster joining the GP2 field at the wheel of the DAMS car.

The afternoon session will go from 1pm to 4pm.

Morning results

Driver License Team Time Laps

1. James Jakes GBR Super Nova Racing 1:12.346 21 2. Luiz Razia BRA Barwa Addax Team 1:12.518 22 3. Michael Herck ROM DPR 1:12.523 21 4. Stefano Coletti MON DAMS 1:12.594 19 5. Christian Vietoris GER Barwa Addax Team 1:12.594 22 6. Sam Bird GBR Telmex Arden International 1:12.600 21 7. Oliver Turvey GBR iSport International 1:12.627 18 8. Roldan Rodriguez ESP Fat Burner Racing Eng 1:12.663 21 9. Jerome d’Ambrosio BEL Ocean Racing Technology 1:12.760 15 10. Alexander Rossi USA Piquet GP 1:12.784 18 11. Charles Pic FRA Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:12.837 23 12. Marcus Ericsson SWE Telmex Arden International 1:13.128 38 13. Antonio Felix da Costa POR Ocean Racing Technology 1:13.176 38 14. Jules Bianchi FRA ART Grand Prix 1:13.195 37 15. Kazimeras Vasiliauskas LTU Trident Racing 1:13.328 45 16. Jan Charouz CZE ART Grand Prix 1:13.337 23 17. Giacomo Ricci ITA DPR 1:13.347 22 18. Max Chilton GBR iSport International 1:13.369 24 19. William Bratt GBR Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:13.424 24 20 Vladimir Arabadzhiev BUL Piquet GP 1:13.528 28 21. Fabio Leimer SUI DAMS 1:13.738 18 22. Josef Kral CZE Super Nova Racing 1:13.883 20 23. Andrea Caldarelli ITA Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:14.191 20 24. Plamen Kralev BUL Trident Racing 1:14.521 29

Afternoon results

Driver License Team Time Laps

1. Luiz Razia BRA Barwa Addax Team 1:12.416 20 2. James Jakes GBR Super Nova Racing 1:12.434 25 3. Jules Bianchi FRA ART Grand Prix 1:12.451 18 4. William Bratt GBR Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:12.465 22 5. Antonio Felix da Costa POR Ocean Racing Technology 1:12.497 30 6. Roldan Rodriguez ESP Fat Burner Racing Eng. 1:12.500 10 7. Jerome d’Ambrosio BEL Ocean Racing Technology 1:12.533 22 8. Oliver Turvey GBR iSport International 1:12.559 31 9. Sam Bird GBR Telmex Arden International 1:12.620 20 10. Kazimeras Vasiliauskas LTU Trident Racing 1:12.664 44 11. Christian Vietoris GER Barwa Addax Team 1:12.743 19 12. Marcus Ericsson SWE Telmex Arden International 1:12.806 23 13. Giacomo Ricci ITA DPR 1:12.885 25 14. Alexander Rossi USA Piquet GP 1:12.912 23 15. Max Chilton GBR iSport International 1:12.995 22 16. Stefano Coletti MON DAMS 1:13.114 29 17. Andrea Caldarelli ITA Party Poker Racing.com SC 1:13.123 32 18. Fabio Leimer SUI DAMS 1:13.419 30 19. Josef Kral CZE Super Nova Racing 1:13.480 23 20 Jan Charouz CZE ART Grand Prix 1:13.589 24 21. Vladimir Arabadzhiev BUL Piquet GP 1:13.724 27 22. Plamen Kralev BUL Trident Racing 1:15.076 35