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Parente dominates day two

The last three-day test session of the 2009 GP2 Series season resumed today at the Catalunya circuit in Spain.

On a sunny track, it was Portuguese Alvaro Parente who signed both fastest lap times in the morning and the afternoon session, with a quickest time in a 1:26.948 clocked in this morning. The Ocean Racing driver claimed his first GP2 win on that same track during the opening round of the 2008 season last April.

Close behind Parente, Lucas di Grassi
demonstrated once more the competitiveness of his Fat Burner Racing Engineering machine. The Brazilian signed a lap time of a 1:26.980 this morning, ahead of Davide Valsecchi at Durango. The Italian sophomore was then followed by rookies Nico Hulkenberg at ART and Giedo Van der Garde at iSport.

Karun Chandhok on the second Ocean Racing car was pleased to sign the sixth best time of the day, ahead of rookie and local hero Dani Clos at Racing Engineering, veteran Pastor Maldonado on the second ART and Belgian Jérôme D’Ambrosio at Dams.

Luca Fillippi at the wheel of his Super Nova car completed the Top 10 of the day.

This morning, eighteen drivers finished within the same second.

Tomorrow’s morning session will start at 9am, local time.

Morning session
Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alvaro Parente Ocean Racing Technology 1:26.948 23
2. Lucas di Grassi Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:26.980 31
3. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1:27.101 19
4. Nico Hulkenberg ART Grand Prix 1:27.116 30
5. Giedo van der Garde iSport International 1:27.269 20
6. Karun Chandhok Ocean Racing Technology 1:27.309 36
7. Dani Clos Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:27.350 22
8. Pastor Maldonado ART Grand Prix 1:27.394 31
9. Jérôme D’Ambrosio Dams 1:27.407 23
10. Luca Fillippi Super Nova Racing 1:27.534 32
11. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:27.553 30
12. Romain Grosjean Barwa Campos Team 1:27.634 27
13. Roldan Rodriguez Piquet GP 1:27.686 23
14. Edoardo Mortara Telmex Arden International 1:27.686 27
15. Javier Villa Super Nova Racing 1:27.744 31
16. Andreas Zuber Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:27.823 22
17. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Campos Team 1:27.828 29
18. Diego Nunes iSport International 1:27.858 31
19. James Jakes DPR 1:28.043 26
20 Michael Herck DPR 1:28.158 19
21. Nelson Panciatici Durango 1:28.184 32
22. Sergio Perez Telmex Arden International 1:28.223 28
23. Davide Rigon Trident Racing 1:28.513 35
24. Luiz Razia Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:29.098 32
25. Alberto Valerio Piquet GP 1:29.222 19
26. Ricardo Teixeira Trident Racing 1:30.893 24

Afternoon session
Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alvaro Parente Ocean Racing Technology 1:27.069 19
2. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:27.642 28
3. Javier Villa Super Nova Racing 1:27.723 24
4. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Campos Team 1:27.805 34
5. Romain Grosjean Barwa Campos Team 1:27.897 30
6. Luca Fillippi Super Nova Racing 1:28.029 27
7. Roldan Rodriguez Piquet GP 1:28.048 24
8. Jérôme D’Ambrosio Dams 1:28.248 31
9. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1:28.309 32
10. Alberto Valerio Piquet GP 1:28.281 25
11. Davide Rigon Trident Racing 1:28.503 29
12. Edoardo Mortara Telmex Arden International 1:28.507 20
13. James Jakes DPR 1:28.552 24
14. Nelson Panciatici Durango 1:28.642 33
15. Dani Clos Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:28.693 36
16. Lucas di Grassi Fat Burner Racing Engineering 1:28.717 40
17. Michael Herck DPR 1:28.842 26
18. Andreas Zuber Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:28.916 27
19. Sergio Perez Telmex Arden International 1:29.684 3
20 Karun Chandhok Ocean Racing Technology 1:29.967 18
21. Pastor Maldonado ART Grand Prix 1:30.227 49
22. Giedo Van der Garde iSport International 1:30.722 15
23. Diego Nunes iSport International 1:31.057 17
24. Nico Hulkenberg ART Grand Prix 1:31.220 43
25. Ricardo Teixeira Trident Racing 1:31.360 34
26. Luiz Razia Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:32.774 2

Written: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:26:58