Glock fastest in Bahrain practice
Timo Glock carried his pre-season testing form into the first practice session of the weekend to top the timesheets at Bahrain on Friday morning
The iSport driver was fastest for the majority of the session, and his margin back to Luca Filippi was a comfortable six tenths of a second.
Alexandre Negrao was third fastest as he begins his third year in the category, while rookie Kazuki Nakajima was only a few hundredths of a second slower in fourth.
The remainder of the top eight was filled by drivers that are expected to contend for this year's championship, but remarkably one whole second covered just the top eight cars.
Lucas di Grassi led the group of title favourites in fifth place, while series rookie Antonio Pizzonia squeezed ahead of the second ART car of Michael Ammermuller for sixth.
Glock's teammate Andreas Zuber was unable to match the speed of the German, and he finished the session eighth.
Nicolas Lapierre recovered from a spin out on track to set the ninth fastest time, while Bruno Senna also made the top 10 ahead of his GP2 debut.
Fellow rookie Andy Soucek was less fortunate, as he missed out on valuable track time due to a technical problem.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Timo Glock iSport International 1:42.223 14 2. Luca Filippi Super Nova International 1:42.847 + 0.624 12 3. Alexandre Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:43.021 + 0.798 13 4. Kazuki Nakajima DAMS 1:43.052 + 0.829 11 5. Lucas di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:43.123 + 0.900 11 6. Antonio Pizzonia FMS International 1:43.148 + 0.925 14 7. M.Ammermuller ART Grand Prix 1:43.172 + 0.949 12 8. Andreas Zuber iSport International 1:43.307 + 1.084 13 9. Nicolas Lapierre DAMS 1:43.397 + 1.174 10 10. Bruno Senna Arden International 1:43.454 + 1.231 13 11. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:43.479 + 1.256 14 12. Mike Conway Super Nova International 1:43.493 + 1.270 16 13. Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing 1:43.641 + 1.418 13 14. Kohei Hirate Trident Racing 1:43.651 + 1.428 10 15. Adrian Zaugg Arden International 1:43.733 + 1.510 13 16. Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:43.839 + 1.616 10 17. Borja Garcia Durango 1:43.850 + 1.627 14 18. Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:43.894 + 1.671 14 19. Karun Chandhok Durango 1:43.963 + 1.740 13 20. Roldan Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:44.272 + 2.049 14 21. Jason Tahinci FMS International 1:44.339 + 2.116 12 22. Sergio Jimenez Racing Engineering 1:44.805 + 2.582 7 23. Sakon Yamamoto BCN Competicion 1:44.941 + 2.718 13 24. C.Bakkerud DPR 1:45.542 + 3.319 16 25. Ho-Pin Tung BCN Competicion 1:45.638 + 3.415 14 26. Andy Soucek DPR 1:52.284 + 10.061 2
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