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Leimer tops second day at Abu Dhabi

Fabio Leimer set the fastest time on the second day of GP2 testing at Abu Dhabi

The 21-year-old Swiss, who finished 19th in his rookie GP2 season with Ocean this year, was running for a second day with Rapax and topped the timesheet in both the morning and afternoon sessions.

He was two tenths quicker than GP2 veteran Luca Filippi (Coloni) in the morning and a tenth faster than Josef Kral (Addax) after lunch.

Filippi, replacing yesterday's pace-setter James Jakes at Coloni, left it until the last five minutes of morning running to topples Charles Pic from second spot - on the Frenchman's second day at Addax, having raced with Arden this season.

Kral, also in his second day at Addax having raced for Super Nova this year, improved on his fourth place in the morning to take second in the afternoon.

Dani Clos (Ocean) took over at Ocean Racing today and edged out the man he replaced, Sam Bird - now with DAMS - for third place this afternoon.

Esteban Gutierrez finished best of the rookies, fifth fastest in both sessions.

Of the other rookies to breach the top 10, Andrea Caldarelli 10th and sixth for Racing Engineering, Jolyon Palmer was eighth in the morning for iSport and Italian Kevin Ceccon (who raced in Spanish F3 this year) was 10th on his second afternoon at Coloni.

Morning times
Pos Driver              Team                  Time      Laps
 1. Fabio Leimer        Rapax                 1m47.867s   16
 2. Luca Filippi        Coloni                1m48.054s   32
 3. Charles Pic         Addax                 1m48.141s   19
 4. Josef Kral          Addax                 1m48.171s   19
 5. Esteban Gutierrez   ART                   1m48.183s   28
 6. Sam Bird            DAMS                  1m48.261s   22
 7. Michael Herck       DPR                   1m48.570s   13
 8. Joylon Palmer       iSport                1m48.614s    8
 9. Dani Clos           Ocean                 1m48.731s   16
10. Andrea Caldarelli   Racing Engineering    1m48.766s   15
11. Nicolas Marroc      Ocean                 1m48.731s   14
12. Roberto Mehri       iSport                1m49.025s   21
13. Julian Leal         Trident               1m49.037s   19
14. Nathanel Berthon    ART                   1m49.098s   23
15. Stefano Coletti     Trident               1m49.120s   20
16. James Jakes         Racing Engineering    1m49.357s   12
17. Simon Trummer       Arden                 1m49.377s   32
18. Jake Rosenzweig     Super                 1m49.537s   14
19. Rodolfo Gonzalez    Super                 1m49.631s   11
20. Armaan Ebrahim      Arden                 1m49.946s   32
21. Pal Varhaug         DAMS                  1m49.949s   34
22. Kevin Ceccon        Coloni                1m49,971s    6
23. Daniel Mancinelli   Rapax                 1m50.780s   19
24. Camilo Zurcher      DPR                   2m10.469s    1
Afternoon times
Pos Driver              Team                  Time      Laps
 1. Fabio Leimer        Rapax                 1m47.401s   16
 2. Josef Kral          Addax                 1m47.517s   16
 3. Dani Clos           Ocean                 1m47.827s   21
 4. Sam Bird            DAMS                  1m47.887s   13
 5. Esteban Gutierrez   ART                   1m47.913s   31
 6. Andrea Caldarelli   Racing Engineering    1m47.939s   16
 7. Luca Filippi        Coloni                1m47.944s   17
 8. Charles Pic         Addax                 1m47.972s   18
 9. Stefano Coletti     Trident               1m48.016s   26
10. Kevin Ceccon        Coloni                1m48.156s   13
11. James Jakes         Racing Engineering    1m48.189s   24
12. Michael Herck       DPR                   1m48.294s   23
13. Roberto Mehri       iSport                1m48.387s   21
14. Jolyon Palmer       iSport                1m48.406s   22
15. Nathanael Berthon   ART                   1m48.759s   28
16. Nicolas Marroc      Ocean                 1m48.831s   15
17. Simon Trummer       Arden                 1m48.874s   25
18. Pal Varhaug         DAMS                  1m48.891s   27
19. Rodolfo Gonzalez    Super Nova            1m49.008s   19
20. Julian Leal         Trident               1m49.085s   19
21. Armaan Ebrahim      Arden                 1m49.262s   31
22. Daniel Mancinelli   Rapax                 1m50.102s   13

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