Barba ends Nurburgring test on top

Spaniard Alvaro Barba finished on top of the times for the second day running, completing a strong pre-season for the Draco Racing team.

"Everything's going great, obviously," he said. "To get the fastest time yesterday and today was the perfect result. I can't wait for Monza."

On a sunny day Eifel mountains, Barba finished less than a tenth of a second ahead of Alvaro Parente, who was delighted with his work during the two days of testing.

"The car is good, the team is doing a good job and I get on well with (teammate) Julien Jousse," Parente said. "Everything's going great, but we need to keep up the good work at Monza."

Parente ended up ahead of Carlin duo Mikhail Aleshin and Sebastian Vettel, the German only running in the morning session.

Barba's teammate Milos Pavlovic completed a strong day for Draco by posting the fifth fastest time of the day, which thanks to the weather conditions and the few red flags was very productive for most teams.

The 2007 season kicks off at Monza in Italy on April 15.

Pos  Driver          Team                    Time   
 1.  Barba           Draco Racing            1:44.145
 2.  Parente         Tech 1 Racing           1:44.196
 3.  Aleshin         Carlin Motorsport       1:44.247
 4.  Vettel          Carlin Motorsport       1:44.300
 5.  Pavlovic        Draco Racing            1:44.363
 6.  Moreau          KTR                     1:44.531
 7.  Van Der Garde   Victory Engineering     1:44.660
 8.  Nunez           Red Devil Team Comtec   1:44.665
 9.  Fauzy           Cram Competition        1:44.682
10.  Van Lagen       Red Devil Team Comtec   1:44.765
11.  Bonanomi        RC Motorsport           1:44.795
12.  Piccione        RC Motorsport           1:44.817
13.  Hanley          Prema Powerteam         1:44.824
14.  Baguette        KTR                     1:44.854
15.  Mcintosh        Gd Racing               1:44.952
16.  Jousse          Tech 1 Racing           1:44.973
17.  Duran           Interwetten.Com         1:44.977
18.  Albuquerque     Epsilon Euskadi         1:45.139
19.  Valsecchi       Epsilon Euskadi         1:45.173
20.  Philippe        Fortec Motorsport       1:45.404
21.  Kimball         Victory Engineering     1:45.503
22.  Di Sabatino     GD Racing               1:45.568
23.  Iaconelli       Pons Racing             1:45.634
24.  Mann            Cram Competition        1:45.888
25.  Walker          Fortec Motorsport       1:45.901
26.  Molina          Pons Racing             1:45.917
27.  Move            Interwetten.Com         1:45.926
28.  Ciompi          Eurointernational       1:46.062
29.  Miguez          Eurointernational       1:46.208
30.  Maassen         Prema Powerteam         1:46.710