Zuber and Filippi Dominate First Days in France
Just days after being rewarded with F1 testing shots following their strong performances in the 2007 GP2 Series, Andreas Zuber and Luca Filippi have confirmed that the faith being placed in them is well founded by topping the first two days of GP2 Series testing at Circuit Paul Ricard, France. Andi topped both sessions on Tuesday for Minardi Piquet Sports with a best laptime of 1:12.741 while today saw Luca repeat Andi's feat in leading both the morning and afternoon for ART Grand Prix with a best time of 1:12.853, which he achieved despite light, intermittent rain.
The past two days have formed the first half of what will be the largest GP2 Series test in history, and will be the final time that the current car will be run in anger in Europe before it is shipped out to Dubai for the GP2 Asia Series. This test will therefore form the basis of many teams' choices over their driver line-up for the new series, whilst also going a long way towards making up their minds over their 2008 drivers for the main series. <pre> Day One Day Two
Driver Team Time Driver Team Time
1 Andreas Zuber Minardi Piquet Sports 1:12.741 1 Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:12.853
2 Luca Filippi DPR 1:13.090 2 Pastor Maldonado iSport International 1:13.071
3 Pastor Maldonado iSport International 1:13.213 3 Andreas Zuber Campos Grand Prix 1:13.084
4 Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1:13.262 4 Sebastien Buemi Arden International 1:13.300
5 Adrian Valles FMS International 1:13.483 5 Andy Soucek DPR 1:13.447
6 Nicolas Lapierre iSport International 1:13.556 6 Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:13.583
7 Borja Garcia Arden International 1:13.833 7 Davide Valsecchi ART Grand Prix 1:13.587
8 Davide Valsecchi ART Grand Prix 1:13.835 8 Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1:13.610
9 Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1:13.877 9 Adrian Valles FMS International 1:13.827
10 Karun Chandhok Arden International 1:13.879 10 Ben Hanley Campos Grand Prix 1:13.848
11 Ben Hanley FMS International 1:13.909 11 Oliver Jarvis DPR 1:13.904
12 Andy Soucek DPR 1:13.919 12 Mikhail Aleshin DAMS 1:13.966
13 Sebastien Buemi DAMS 1:13.988 13 Jerome D'Ambrosio Arden International 1:13.992
14 Jerome d`Ambrosio Campos Grand Prix 1:14.123 14 Markus Niemela Racing Engineering 1:14.021
15 Paolo Nocera Racing Engineering 1:14.243 15 Dani Clos BCN Competicion 1:14.033
16 Alberto Valerio Durango 1:14.340 16 Matteo Puglisi Minardi Piquet Sports 1:14.081
17 Carlo Van Dam BCN Competicion 1:14.503 17 Christian Bakkerud Super Nova Int. 1:14.099
18 Fabrizio Crestani Durango 1:14.641 18 Marcos Martinez Racing Engineering 1:14.227
19 Kasper Andersen FMS International 1:14.716 19 Alberto Valerio Trident Racing 1:14.370
20 Markus Niemela Racing Engineering 1:14.784 20 Paolo Nocera BCN Competicion 1:14.435
21 Matteo Puglisi Minardi Piquet Sports 1:15.032 21 Diego Nunes Minardi Piquet Sports 1:14.546
22 Michael Herck Trident Racing 1:15.191 22 Michael Herck Trident Racing 1:14.550
23 Manuel Saez Merino Campos Grand Prix 1:15.222 23 Kasper Andersen FMS International 1:14.591
24 Nathan Antunes Super Nova International 1:15.274 24 Carlos Iaconelli Durango 1:14.591
25 Adrian Campos Campos Grand Prix 1:15.763 25 Jonathan Kennard iSport International 1:14.594
26 Stephen Jelley Super Nova International 1:16.122 26 Maro Engel FMS International 1:14.786
27 Henri Karjalainen BCN Competicion 1:16.243 27 Celso Miguez Super Nova Int. 1:14.796
28 H. Schleghelmilch Trident Racing 1:17.400 28 Vladimr Arabadzhiev Durango 1:16.228
-credit: gp2series.com
