Hamilton still on top at Valencia
Lewis Hamilton continued to set the pace in testing for this weekend's GP2 series' season opener at Valencia, beating his best from yesterday by almost a second
Hamilton's lap of 1:18.625 was nearly four tenths of a second quicker the next best of the day, set by Nelson Piquet Jr.
Hamilton set his blistering time in this morning's three-hour session, as most of the teams worked on qualifying runs in preparation for Saturday's morning's qualifying session.
Teams chose not to focus on outright laptimes this afternoon, opting to worked on longer runs and race set-ups.
Spits of rain also affected this afternoon's running, while times in the morning session were aided by increased cloud cover over the Spanish circuit.
Piquet, who was quickest in the slower afternoon session, topped a group of seven drivers who were within a quarter of a second of each other, proving that qualifying will be a close run thing for this weekend's race.
Jose Maria Lopez was third quickest, ahead of Adrian Valles of Campos Racing entry.
With no more free practice left, teams have a day off tomorrow before going straight into qualifying on Saturday morning. The season's first race will be held on Saturday afternoon.
Morning times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Hamilton ART Grand Prix 1:18.625 28 2. Piquet Piquet Sports 1:19.012 41 3. Lopez Super Nova International 1:19.069 36 4. Valles Campos Racing 1:19.102 29 5. Di Grassi Durango 1:19.173 57 6. Bruni Trident Racing 1:19.194 45 7. Pla DPR Direxiv 1:19.240 35 8. Premat ART Grand Prix 1:19.246 34 9. Lapierre Arden International 1:19.372 29 10. Viso iSport International 1:19.394 48 11. Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 1:19.394 21 12. Piccione DPR Direxiv 1:19.529 36 13. Fauzy Super Nova International 1:19.587 32 14. Ammermuller Arden International 1:19.656 40 15. Gommendy iSport International 1:19.674 27 16. Zuber Trident Racing 1:19.694 41 17. Perera Dams 1:19.737 8 18. Filippi FMS International 1:19.861 34 19. Negrao Piquet Sports 1:19.868 50 20. Glock BCN Competicion 1:19.964 23 21. Villa Racing Engineering 1:20.110 38 22. Hernandez Durango 1:20.116 29 23. Carroll Racing Engineering 1:20.135 34 24. Monfardini Dams 1:20.160 38 25. Porteiro Campos Racing 1:20.368 31 26. Tahinci FMS International 1:21.813 39
Afternoon times
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Piquet Piquet Sports 1:19.445 24 2. Gommendy iSport International 1:19.770 19 3. Porteiro Campos Racing 1:20.178 44 4. Perera Dams 1:20.434 52 5. Zuber Trident Racing 1:20.444 34 6. Bruni Trident Racing 1:20.541 19 7. Valles Campos Racing 1:20.827 53 8. Di Grassi Durango 1:20.839 32 9. Lapierre Arden International 1:20.882 34 10. Hamilton ART Grand Prix 1:20.933 46 11. Glock BCN Competicion 1:20.953 49 12. Filippi FMS International 1:21.070 35 13. Ammermuller Arden International 1:21.148 38 14. Negrao Piquet Sports 1:21.217 27 15. Premat ART Grand Prix 1:21.234 47 16. Piccione DPR Direxiv 1:21.286 22 17. Villa Racing Engineering 1:21.415 30 18. Hernandez Durango 1:21.712 50 19. Fauzy Super Nova International 1:21.733 40 20. Lopez Super Nova International 1:21.840 38 21. Pla DPR Direxiv 1:22.032 25 22. Viso iSport International 1:22.353 24 23. Carroll Racing Engineering 1:22.423 18 24. Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 1:22.565 35 25. Monfardini Dams 1:22.601 14 26. Tahinci FMS International 1:22.807 28
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