Luca Filippi fastest at Paul Ricard test

Luca Filippi has set the pace in both morning and afternoon sessions at Circuit Paul Ricard for ART Grand Prix Wednesday. The Italian set the fastest lap of the day in the afternoon session with a 1:12.853 narrowly missing out on beating Andi Zuber's best lap from yesterday despite today's running being disrupted by light, intermittent rain.

Second fastest this afternoon was the aforementioned Zuber who had switched over to Campos Grand Prix, while Sebastien Buemi put in a great afternoon to take third for Arden International. Fourth fastest was Andy Soucek for DPR with Vitaly Petrov fifth for Campos. Davide Valsecchi was the quickest rookie in sixth for ART Grand Prix, while Kamui Kobayashi who had impressed in the morning blotted his copy book with a spin into the barriers which took out his left front suspension and relegated him to the bottom of the timesheets.

Results

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1 Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:12.853 40
2 Andreas Zuber Campos Grand Prix 1:13.084 45
3 Sebastien Buemi Arden International 1:13.300 34
4 Andy Soucek DPR 1:13.447 28
5 Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:13.583 36
6 Davide Valsecchi ART Grand Prix 1:13.587 28
7 Adrian Valles FMS International 1:13.832 51
8 Oliver Jarvis DPR 1:13.904 37
9 Pastor Maldonado iSport International 1:13.944 25
10 Mikhail Aleshin DAMS 1:13.966 31
11 Jerome D'Ambrosio Arden International 1:13.992 33
12 Markus Niemela Racing Engineering 1:14.021 41
13 Dani Clos BCN Competicion 1:14.033 47
14 Matteo Puglisi Minardi Piquet Sports 1:14.081 26
15 Christian Bakkerud Super Nova International 1:14.099 33
16 Marcos Martinez Racing Engineering 1:14.227 42
17 Alberto Valerio Trident Racing 1:14.370 39
18 Paolo Nocera BCN Competicion 1:14.435 25
19 Diego Nunes Minardi Piquet Sports 1:14.546 31
20 Michael Herck Trident Racing 1:14.550 39
21 Carlos Iaconelli Durango 1:14.591 42
22 Jonathan Kennard iSport International 1:14.594 55
23 Maro Engel FMS International 1:14.786 43
24 Celso Miguez Super Nova International 1:14.796 33
25 Vladimr Arabadzhiev Durango 1:16.228 54
26 Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1:19.099 4