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Pantano quickest at Barcelona

Giorgio Pantano made the most of his GP2 experience to top the times at the end of a two-day test session for the new cars at Barcelona in Spain on Wednesday

The Italian set his best time in the extended afternoon session, which had been lengthened by half an hour because of the early stop to the morning's activities.

Track officials had had to call out the red flags and stop the first session because the windy conditions had caused safety concerns about trackside advertising hoardings. Necessary repairs meant an early lunch for the GP2 field.

Despite a further spate of red flags throughout the afternoon, Pantano set a lap that was just four hundredths of a second faster than Bruno Senna's best effort from the morning.

Most of the quick times were set in the afternoon, with Vitaly Petrov third for Campos Team, ahead of the ART Grand Prix duo of Romain Grosjean and Luca Filippi.

GP2 testing will continue next week at Paul Ricard in France, the final test before the start of the season as a support round for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Morning times:

Pos  Driver               Team                    Time               Laps
 1.  Bruno Senna          iSport International    1:26.396            28
 2.  Romain Grosjean      ART Grand Prix          1:26.715  + 0.319   21
 3.  Pastor Maldonado     Piquet Sports           1:26.796  + 0.400   20
 4.  Andreas Zuber        Piquet Sports           1:27.255  + 0.859   25
 5.  Andy Soucek          Fisichella Motor Sport  1:27.454  + 1.058   23
 6.  Kamui Kobayashi      Dams                    1:27.575  + 1.179   24
 7.  Davide Valsecchi     Durango                 1:27.607  + 1.211   14
 8.  Luca Filippi         ART Grand Prix          1:27.639  + 1.243   24
 9.  Alvaro Parente       Super Nova Racing       1:27.799  + 1.403   21
10.  Yelmer Buurman       Trust Team Arden        1:27.986  + 1.590   20
11.  Javier Villa         Racing Engineering      1:28.195  + 1.799    7
12.  Vitaly Petrov        Campos Team             1:28.226  + 1.830   25
13.  Paolo Nocera         BCN Competicion         1:28.347  + 1.951   20
14.  Ben Hanley           Campos Team             1:28.352  + 1.956   23
15.  Adrian Valles        Fisichella Motor Sport  1:28.417  + 2.021   15
16.  Milos Pavlovic       BCN Competicion         1:28.451  + 2.055   26
17.  Christian Bakkerud   Super Nova Racing       1:28.493  + 2.097   37
18.  Diego Nunes          DPR                     1:28.536  + 2.140   22
19.  Alberto Valerio      Durango                 1:28.758  + 2.362   23
20.  Jerome D Ambrosio    Dams                    1:28.835  + 2.439   23
21.  Karun Chandhok       iSport International    1:28.964  + 2.568   27
22.  Ho-Pin Tung          Trident Racing          1:29.160  + 2.764   20
23.  Sebastien Buemi      Trust Team Arden        1:29.874  + 3.478    8
24.  Giorgio Pantano      Racing Engineering      1:30.054  + 3.658   16
25.  Michael Herck        DPR                     1:30.555  + 4.159   25
26.  Mike Conway          Trident Racing          no time

Afternoon times:

Pos  Driver               Team                    Time               Laps
 1.  Giorgio Pantano      Racing Engineering      1:26.351            41
 2.  Vitaly Petrov        Campos Team             1:26.402  + 0.051   30
 3.  Romain Grosjean      ART Grand Prix          1:26.455  + 0.104   41
 4.  Luca Filippi         ART Grand Prix          1:26.472  + 0.121   34
 5.  Adrian Valles        Fisichella Motor Sport  1:26.575  + 0.224   47
 6.  Kamui Kobayashi      Dams                    1:26.580  + 0.229   45
 7.  Bruno Senna          iSport International    1:26.760  + 0.409   46
 8.  Javier Villa         Racing Engineering      1:26.760  + 0.409   40
 9.  Sebastien Buemi      Trust Team Arden        1:26.765  + 0.414   50
10.  Alvaro Parente       Super Nova Racing       1:26.769  + 0.418   40
11.  Yelmer Buurman       Trust Team Arden        1:26.779  + 0.428   24
12.  Davide Valsecchi     Durango                 1:26.905  + 0.554   54
13.  Andreas Zuber        Piquet Sports           1:26.938  + 0.587   44
14.  Karun Chandhok       iSport International    1:27.077  + 0.726   31
15.  Pastor Maldonado     Piquet Sports           1:27.176  + 0.825   30
16.  Andy Soucek          Campos Team             1:27.220  + 0.869   40
17.  Mike Conway          Trident Racing          1:27.350  + 0.999   46
18.  Ben Hanley           Campos Team             1:27.663  + 1.312   44
19.  Milos Pavlovic       BCN Competicion         1:27.685  + 1.334   31
20.  Alberto Valerio      Durango                 1:27.822  + 1.471   17
21.  Jerome Di Ambrosio   Dams                    1:27.990  + 1.639   33
22.  Diego Nunes          DPR                     1:28.024  + 1.673   49
23.  Ho-Pin Tung          Trident Racing          1:28.198  + 1.847   41
24.  Christian Bakkerud   Super Nova Racing       1:28.328  + 1.977   43
25.  Paolo Nocera         BCN Competicion         1:28.474  + 2.123   33
26.  Michael Herck        DPR                     1:28.481  + 2.130   22

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