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AUTO GP NEWS

Filippi leads Auto GP practice

By James Gent

Saturday, June 18th 2011, 09:13 GMT

Luca Filippi, Super Nova, Brno 2011 Luca Filippi topped a thrilling opening practice session for the third round of the Auto GP season at Brno, with three drivers trading fastest laps until the very end.

Filippi's best time of 1m45.349s on his final tour sent him to the top of the timesheets just seconds after his new team-mate Jon Lancaster had ousted long-time leader Kecin Ceccon from the position. Lancaster, competing for the first time in Auto GP, came away second, while Ceccon took third with a best lap of 1.45.611s.

Fabio Onidi completed a strong session in fourth, just ahead of Adrien Tambay in fifth. Hungaroring race two winner Sergei Afanasiev finished just a hundredth of a second behind his DAMS team-mate in seventh.

With his Lazarus team focusing on set-up ahead of qualifying, current series leader Giovanni Venturini was seventh on his first visit to Brno. Rio Haryanto was next up for DAMS just ahead of Fabrizio Crestani. Bruno Mendez rounded out the top 10 for Campos Racing.

Pos  Driver                Team                  Time       Gap
 1.  Luca Filippi          Super Nova            1m45.349s
 2.  Jon Lancaster         Super Nova            1m45.543s  + 0.194s
 3.  Kevin Ceccon          Ombra                 1m45.611s  + 0.262s
 4.  Fabio Onidi           Lazarus               1m45.670s  + 0.321s
 5.  Adrien Tambay         Gravity-Charouz/DAMS  1m45.681s  + 0.332s
 6.  Sergei Afanasiev      DAMS                  1m45.762s  + 0.413s
 7.  Giovanni Venturini    Durango               1m45.863s  + 0.514s
 8.  Rio Haryanto          DAMS                  1m46.017s  + 0.668s
 9.  Fabrizio Crestani     Lazarus               1m46.149s  + 0.800s
10.  Bruno Mendez          Campos                1m46.450s  + 1.101s
11.  Samuele Buttarelli    TP                    1m46.779s  + 1.430s
12.  Pasquale di Sabatino  TP                    1m46.801s  + 1.452s
13.  Marco Barba           Campos                1m47.222s  + 1.873s
14.  Giuseppe Cipriani     Durango               1m48.341s  + 2.992s
15.  Francesco Dracone     Emmebi                1m49.360s  + 4.011s

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