Romain Grosjean quickest in morning session at Paul Ricard

The first three-day test session of the GP2 Series 2009 season resumed this morning at Paul Ricard. As planned, the thirteen teams mainly concentrate today on aero mapping and high speed configuration. On a sunny 2A track configuration that includes a long straight, sophomore Romain Grosjean set the pace in a 1:09.015 at the wheel of his Barwa Campos car. He was closely followed by Spaniard rookie Dani Clos at Fat Burner Racing Engineering and yesterday’s quickest racer Javier Villa at Super Nova.

Behind the Top 3, ART’s Pastor Maldonado led DPR’s Michael Herck. Veteran Lucas di Grassi finished sixth on the second Fat Burner Racing Engineering car, ahead of Alvaro Parente at Ocean Racing Technology, Andreas Zuber at FMS and rookie Nico Hülkenberg on the second ART machine. Belgian Jérôme d’Ambrosio at Dams completed the Top 10.

Twenty-one drivers finished within the same second.

The session will restart this afternoon at 2:00pm, local time Morning session Driver Nationality Team Time Laps 1. Romain Grosjean FRA Barwa Campos Team 1:09.015 34 2. Dani Clos ESP Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:09.047 43 3. Javier Villa ESP Super Nova Racing 1:09.077 33 4. Pastor Maldonado VEN ART Grand Prix 1:09.122 41 5. Michael Herck ROM DPR 1:09.169 37 6. Lucas Di Grassi BRA Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:09.180 33 7. Alvaro Parente POR Ocean Racing Technology 1:09.215 35 8. Andreas Zuber UAE Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:09.221 38 9. Jérôme d’Ambrosio BEL Dams 1:09.335 38 10. Nico Hülkenberg GER ART Grand Prix 1:09.335 41 11. Luca Filippi ITA Super Nova Racing 1:09.367 45 12. Roldan Rodriguez ESP Piquet GP 1:09.417 38 13. Kamui Kobayashi JPN Dams 1:09.422 36 14. Davide Valsecchi ITA Durango 1:09.524 36 15. Alberto Valerio BRA Piquet GP 1:09.525 36 16. Vitaly Petrov RUS Barwa Campos Team 1:09.567 19 17. Karun Chandhok IND Ocean Racing Technology 1:09.576 31 18. Diego Nunes BRA iSport International 1:09.578 57 19. Giedo Van der Garde NED iSport International 1:09.653 33 20 Edoardo Mortara ITA Telmex Arden International 1:09.769 25 21. Hamad Al Fardan BRN Trident Racing 1:09.811 35 22. Luiz Razia BRA Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:10.102 45 23. Davide Rigon ITA Trident Racing 1:10.393 52 24. Sergio Perez MEX Telmex Arden International 1:10.466 32

13 March 2009