Garza tops final practice for Mexico

Garza shot up the order and posted a time more than half a second quicker than anyone else late in the session, after he bolted on a set of new tyres for his trial of the lap-long power boost that the teams will have at their disposal in qualifying later today.

"We were working hard on the setup and we wanted to find out what the car would do on new tyres in a qualifying run this afternoon," said Garza.

"It's more exciting in the fast corners, but you have to be careful when you put the power down and you have to be more controlled with the throttle. I liked it and we're ready for qualifying now."

Team Switzerland's Neel Jani had been quickest for most of the session before Garza's boost-aided effort, just ahead of Loic Duval - who was set for a quicker time himself on his power boost lap until a technical problem slowed his car and then forced him to stop out on track.

Team Netherlands finished the session fourth fastest, ahead of India and the USA, with yesterday's pace setters Great Britain eighth.

Pos Driver               Team            Time         Gap
 1. David Garza          Mexico          1:48.431
 2. Neel Jani            Switzerland     1:49.013  +0.582
 3. Loic Duval           France          1:49.224  +0.793
 4. Jeroen Bleekemolen   Netherlands     1:49.401  +0.970
 5. Adam Carroll         Ireland         1:49.453  +1.022
 6. Narain Karthikeyan   India           1:49.472  +1.041
 7. Marco Andretti       USA             1:49.806  +1.375
 8. Danny Watts          Great Britain   1:49.837  +1.406
 9. Filipe Albuquerque   Portugal        1:49.892  +1.461
10. Earl Bamber          New Zealand     1:50.162  +1.731
11. Fairuz Fauzy         Malaysia        1:50.164  +1.733
12. Daniel Morad         Lebanon         1:50.245  +1.814
13. Adrian Zaugg         South Africa    1:50.317  +1.886
14. Ho-Pin Tung          China           1:50.323  +1.892
15. John Martin          Australia       1:50.648  +2.217
16. Clivio Piccione      Monaco          1:50.699  +2.268
17. Satrio Hermanto      Indonesia       1:51.133  +2.702
18. Edoardo Piscopo      Italy           1:51.249  +2.818
19. Felipe Guimaraes     Brazil          1:51.494  +3.063
20. Jin-Woo Hwang        Korea           1:52.881  +4.450