Switzerland top Chengdu practice

Neel Jani moved to the top of the times after outpacing initial pace-setter Team France's Nicolas Prost, who had also driven in the rookie sessions in the morning.

Jani, driving for the first time at the Chinese circuit, remained on top for the rest of the session and, with a time of 1:16.349, finished nearly a tenth of a second ahead of Prost.

"This afternoon was the first time I have ever driven on this circuit but it's very bumpy and dirty at the moment, so it's just been about finding the quickest line for us, which wasn't always the traditional ideal line as everyone seemed to be taking alternative quick routes," said Jani.

"It will definitely be one of the hardest A1GP races so far because it's so easy to make mistakes on the bumps. That one qualifying lap will be something in between playing it safe and finding the limit of the car."

Narain Karthikeyan, who had topped the times in the second rookie session in the morning, was third quickest for Team India, ahead of South Africa's Adrian Zaugg and Team Netherlands' Robert Doornbos, who made his A1GP debut today.

Marco Andretti made a solid start in his first A1GP outing for Team USA, the American finishing in eighth position.

India, USA and Team Great Britain were allowed two hours of additional running today, and Mexico have also been allocated additional running on Saturday.

Pos  Team              Driver                 Time              Laps
 1.  Switzerland       Neel Jani              1:16.349            25
 2.  France            Nicolas Prost          1:16.446  + 0.097   21
 3.  India             Narain Karthikeyan     1:16.474  + 0.125    7
 4.  South Africa      Adrian Zaugg           1:16.557  + 0.208   26
 5.  Netherlands       Robert Doornbos        1:16.558  + 0.209   26
 6.  Great Britain     Danny Watts            1:16.601  + 0.252   19
 7.  Portugal          Filipe Albuquerque     1:17.059  + 0.71    25
 8.  Usa               Marco Andretti         1:17.183  + 0.834   20
 9.  Ireland           Adam Carroll           1:17.183  + 0.834   24
10.  Malaysia          Fairuz Fauzy           1:17.200  + 0.851   27
11.  Brazil            Felipe Guimaraes       1:17.234  + 0.885   20
12.  Australia         John Martin            1:17.323  + 0.974   31
13.  Lebanon           Daniel Morad           1:17.469  + 1.120   18
14.  New Zealand       Chris Van Der Drift    1:17.683  + 1.334   19
15.  Italy             Edoardo Piscopo        1:18.136  + 1.787   29
16.  Monaco            Clivio Piccione        1:18.233  + 1.884   28
17.  China             Ho Pin Tung            1:18.668  + 2.319   22
18.  Indonesia         Satrio Hermanto        1:19.031  + 2.682   30
19.  Korea             Jin Woo Hwang          1:20.541  + 4.192   21