Viso fastest in one-off warm-up
Race 2 pole-sitter Ernesto Viso has topped the times sheet in the warm-up session this morning at Valencia
The iSport driver, who finished the season-opening race yesterday in eight position, set a lap of 1:20.346, beating Super Nova's Jose Maria Lopez by just half a tenth of a second.
Durango driver Lucas di Grassi had a scary moment when the left rear suspension broke on his car as he hit the brakes for Turn 2, while Clivio Piccione's DPR Direxiv car was badly damaged when his throttle stuck open on the main straight leading into Turn 1.
"I was doing 270/280km/h when I hit the brakes and the throttle stayed open," he said. "The car was buried in the tyres and I don't know if there's going to be time to get it ready for the race."
FMS driver Jason Tahinci had yet more woe, with continued gearbox problems.
Third fastest was Adam Carroll for Racing Engineering, who will start today's sprint race in 14th, followed by race 1 winner Nelson Piquet Jr, who set the fourth fastest time - half a second behind Viso's.
GP2 normally does not hold a warm-up session between the feature race and the sprint one, as the rounds are normally held in tandem with the Formula One Grand Prix weekend.
However, with the Valencia round being entirely independent, the organisers have adopted a different weekend schedule, which included this morning's one-off session.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Viso iSport International 1:20.346 9 2. Lopez Super Nova International 1:20.400 + 0.054 11 3. Carroll Racing Engineering 1:20.699 + 0.353 9 4. Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 1:20.881 + 0.535 12 5. Gommendy iSport International 1:21.008 + 0.662 4 6. Hernandez Durango 1:21.234 + 0.888 14 7. Valles Campos Racing 1:21.309 + 0.963 12 8. Di Grassi Durango 1:21.347 + 1.001 9 9. Tahinci FMS International 1:21.358 + 1.012 6 10. Porteiro Campos Racing 1:21.367 + 1.021 11 11. Hamilton ART Grand Prix 1:21.405 + 1.059 8 12. Filippi FMS International 1:21.427 + 1.081 15 13. Perera DAMS 1:21.542 + 1.196 12 14. Monfardini DAMS 1:21.590 + 1.244 12 15. Lapierre Arden International Ltd 1:21.659 + 1.313 6 16. Glock BCN Competicion 1:21.873 + 1.527 13 17. Zuber Trident Racing 1:21.914 + 1.568 12 18. Villa Racing Engineering 1:21.917 + 1.571 9 19. Bruni Trident Racing 1:21.941 + 1.595 12 20. Negrao Piquet Sports 1:21.979 + 1.633 6 21. Ammermueller Arden International Ltd 1:22.006 + 1.660 8 22. Pla DPR 1:22.032 + 1.686 15 23. Premat ART Grand Prix 1:22.153 + 1.807 8 24. Fauzy Super Nova International 1:22.323 + 1.977 12 25. Piccione DPR 1:22.693 + 2.347 3 26. Yoshimoto BCN Competicion No time 4
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