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Singapore GP2: Esteban Gutierrez fastest in practice for Lotus

Esteban Gutierrez topped the half hour of free practice ahead of qualifying on Friday for GP2's first ever race around the streets of Singapore

A heavy thunderstorm in the hour before the session began soaked the track, making conditions perilous with puddles proving slow to evaporate in the humid conditions.

Gutierrez lapped his Lotus GP machine in 2m14.339s, 0.332s quicker than Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer. Stefano Coletti was third fastest for Rapax, despite overshooting the same corner twice, ahead of Gutierrez's team-mate James Calado and Addax's Johnny Cecotto Jr.

With both championships to be decided this weekend in the season finale, it was Lotus that threw down the gauntlet in the teams' title race - the Paris-based team two points behind fellow French outfit DAMS and very much at the top of the times throughout the session.

Both Calado and Gutierrez are already ruled out of the drivers' title race, however, which will be decided between Davide Valsecchi of DAMS and Luiz Razia of Arden. They remained locked together during the session, but in the lower reaches of the timesheets. Valsecchi ended up 14th and Razia down in 20th.

Valsecchi leads Razia by 25 points, and with four points up for grabs in qualifying tonight, Razia will have to find something special to eat into his rival's advantage.

There were numerous spins, straight-lining of chicanes and overshoots down the escape road, but no actual damage was done during the session. Stephane Richelmi came closest, spinning his Trident car onto the Anderson Bridge but just staying out of the wall.

Pos  Driver               Team                Time       Gap
 1.  Esteban Gutierrez    Lotus               2m14.339s
 2.  Fabio Leimer         Racing Engineering  2m14.671s  + 0.332s
 3.  Stefano Coletti      Rapax               2m15.284s  + 0.945s
 4.  James Calado         Lotus               2m15.335s  + 0.996s
 5.  Johnny Cecotto Jr    Addax               2m15.364s  + 1.025s
 6.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham            2m15.436s  + 1.097s
 7.  Simon Trummer        Arden               2m15.729s  + 1.390s
 8.  Rio Haryanto         Carlin              2m15.734s  + 1.395s
 9.  Felipe Nasr          DAMS                2m16.232s  + 1.893s
10.  Julian Leal          Trident             2m16.233s  + 1.894s
11.  Fabio Onidi          Coloni              2m16.306s  + 1.967s
12.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Caterham            2m16.325s  + 1.986s
13.  Nathanael Berthon    Racing Engineering  2m16.461s  + 2.122s
14.  Davide Valsecchi     DAMS                2m16.510s  + 2.171s
15.  Nigel Melker         Ocean               2m16.535s  + 2.196s
16.  Jolyon Palmer        iSport              2m16.623s  + 2.284s
17.  Sergio Canamasas     Lazarus             2m16.956s  + 2.617s
18.  Luca Filippi         Coloni              2m17.243s  + 2.904s
19.  Victor Guerin        Ocean               2m17.329s  + 2.990s
20.  Luiz Razia           Arden               2m17.524s  + 3.185s
21.  Stephane Richelmi    Trident             2m17.962s  + 3.623s
22.  Max Chilton          Carlin              2m18.033s  + 3.694s
23.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport              2m18.635s  + 4.296s
24.  Jake Rosenzweig      Addax               2m18.906s  + 4.567s
25.  Rene Binder          Lazarus             2m19.745s  + 5.406s
26.  Ricardo Teixeira     Rapax               2m24.101s  + 9.762s

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