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López tops crucial mid-season test |
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
José María López has finished the all-important mid-season GP2 series
test with the fastest time of the two day session for Super Nova
International. The Argentine, who set his fastest lap in this morning’s
session, was followed in the overall times by Nelson Piquet Jr who took
his Piquet Sports entry to within five hundredths of a second of
Lopez’s time to finish on top of the individual times this afternoon.
Third in the classification was Timo Glock. The German has had
something of a resurgence since switching to iSport International, and
after finishing yesterday as the quickest driver of all, he continued
to show his pace with a best overall lap just one tenth behind Lopez.
Championship leader Lewis Hamilton could only muster the 11th fastest
time of the test.
The test, which took place on the usual “3D” 3.853km track formation of
Circuit Paul Ricard, France, was the first opportunity for our teams to
run any serious testing programmes, other than in race weekend practice
sessions, since the 2006 season began in April. In 2005, the mid-season
test proved to be the turning point of the season for the eventual
champions ART Grand Prix and Nico Rosberg, who until that point had not
won a race.
The GP2 series now moves on to Magny-Cours in two weeks’ time for Round
Seven of the 2006 season. We will know then who has learned the most
over the past two days…
| Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Time |
| 1 |
José María López |
Super Nova International |
1:13.728 |
| 2 |
Nelson Piquet Jr |
Piquet Sports |
1:13.774 |
| 3 |
Timo Glock |
iSport International |
1:13.845 |
| 4 |
Andreas Zuber |
Trident Racing |
1:13.892 |
| 5 |
Ernesto Viso |
iSport International |
1:13.967 |
| 6 |
Clivio Piccione |
DPR Direxiv |
1:14.042 |
| 7 |
Gianmaria Bruni |
Trident Racing |
1:14.101 |
| 8 |
Franck Perera |
DAMS |
1:14.110 |
| 9 |
Lucas Di Grassi |
Durango |
1:14.185 |
| 10 |
Adam Carroll |
Racing Engineering |
1:14.279 |
| 11 |
Lewis Hamilton |
ART Grand Prix |
1:14.310 |
| 12 |
Luca Filippi |
BCN Competicion |
1:14.463 |
| 13 |
Giorgio Pantano |
P.O. FMS International |
1:14.519 |
| 14 |
Fairuz Fauzy |
Super Nova International |
1:14.585 |
| 15 |
Alexandre Negrão |
Piquet Sports |
1:14.645 |
| 16 |
Ferdinando Monfardini |
DAMS |
1:14.671 |
| 17 |
Adrian Valles |
Campos Racing |
1:14.674 |
| 18 |
Michael Ammermüller |
Arden International |
1:14.749 |
| 19 |
Sergio Hernandez |
Durango |
1:14.899 |
| 20 |
Alexandre Prémat |
ART Grand Prix |
1:14.938 |
| 21 |
Felix Porteiro |
Campos Racing |
1:14.951 |
| 22 |
Alvaro Parente |
Arden International |
1:15.005 |
| 23 |
Javier Villa |
Racing Engineering |
1:15.006 |
| 24 |
Hiroki Yoshimoto |
BCN Competicion |
1:15.029 |
| 25 |
Olivier Pla |
DPR Direxiv |
1:15.281 |
| 26 |
Jason Tahinci |
P.O. FMS International |
1:15.907 |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 January 2007 )
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