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Mexico fastest in final practice

Salvador Duran fired a warning shot to his A1GP rivals for qualifying by setting the fastest time in final practice on Saturday morning

The Mexican driver was marginally quicker than Great Britain's Robbie Kerr, who only left the pit lane with half an hour remaining in the 60-minute session.

However, Kerr's first flying lap was good enough to be third quickest, and he narrowly missed out on topping the timesheets with his second lap.

Kerr completed roughly half the amount of laps of the other frontrunners, meaning the British team should have been able to look after their tyres better than the rest of the teams.

Friday's pacesetters France were only fourth quickest, and Nicolas Lapierre was nearly half a second adrift of the Phil Giebler, who was third fastest for Team USA.

Tuka Rocha put in an impressive run right at the end of the session to go fifth for Brazil, while neighbouring rivals Australia and New Zealand were next up.

Last season's feature race winner Sean McIntosh was eighth fastest in the Canadian car.

Pos  Team            Driver             Time              Laps
 1.  Mexico          Salvador Duran     1:17.586           21
 2.  Great Britain   Robbie Kerr        1:17.667  +0.081   12
 3.  USA             Philip Giebler     1:17.762  +0.176   22
 4.  France          Nicolas Lapierre   1:18.208  +0.622   21
 5.  Brazil          Tuka Rocha         1:18.367  +0.781   23
 6.  Australia       Ryan Briscoe       1:18.392  +0.806   24
 7.  New Zealand     Jonny Reid         1:18.397  +0.811   17
 8.  Canada          Sean McIntosh      1:18.663  +1.077   20
 9.  Germany         Nico Hulkenberg    1:18.830  +1.244   21
10.  Switzerland     Neel Jani          1:18.857  +1.271   27
11.  South Africa    A. van der Merwe   1:18.922  +1.336   18
12.  Indonesia       Ananda Mikola      1:18.977  +1.391   25
13.  Czech Republic  Jaroslav Janis     1:19.084  +1.498   22
14.  Netherlands     J. Bleekemolen     1:19.143  +1.557   22
15.  Ireland         Richard Lyons      1:19.380  +1.794   18
16.  China           Ho-Pin Tung        1:19.396  +1.810   17
17.  Italy           Enrico Toccacelo   1:19.706  +2.120   23
18.  Malaysia        Alex Yoong         1:19.764  +2.178   24
19.  India           Armaan Ebrahim     1:20.455  +2.869   28
20.  Lebanon         Basil Shaaban      1:21.051  +3.465   26
21.  Pakistan        Nur Ali            1:21.996  +4.410   29

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