Pantano tops first day of testing
Giorgio Pantano was comfortably the fastest driver on the first day of GP2 testing at Paul Ricard for Campos Racing
The former Formula One driver eclipsed Timo Glock's best time from the morning session by four tenths of a second towards the end of the day.
The majority of the best times were set in the morning session, as a heavy storm meant that most of the drivers did little running in the afternoon.
Glock's morning time was the second best of the day, while Antonio Pizzonia made sure that the top three places were all filled former F1 drivers.
Javier Villa was a surprise package with the fourth fastest time of the day for Racing Engineering, while Pastor Maldonado and Franck Perera completed the top six.
Luca Filippi was next up for Super Nova, while Borja Garcia's second fastest time from the afternoon was good enough for eighth overall.
Lucas di Grassi was the top runner for reigning champions ART with the ninth fastest time, while rookie Kohei Hirate was 10th quickest.
Afternoon times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:13.889 21 2. Borja Garcia Durango 1:14.436 11 3. Timo Glock Isport International 1:14.518 7 4. Ricardo Risatti BCN Competicion 1:14.712 8 5. Andreas Zuber Isport International 1:14.984 26 6. Karun Chandhok Durango 1:14.991 13 7. Franck Perera Racing Engineering 1:15.190 6 8. Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:15.238 20 9. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:15.239 12 10. Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing 1:15.388 8 11. Roldan Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:15.776 9 12. Kazuki Nakajima DAMS 1:15.801 24 13. Andy Soucek DPR 1:16.013 11 14. Michael Ammermueller ART Grand Prix 1:16.070 9 15. Alexandre Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:16.288 6 16. Christian Bakkerud DPR 1:16.343 13 17. Sakon Yamamoto BCN Competicion 1:16.949 15 18. Bruno Senna Arden International 1:17.086 7 19. Kohei Hirate Trident Racing 1:18.184 8 20. Lucas Di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:19.192 12 21. Adrian Zaugg Arden International 1:20.890 11 22. Mike Conway Super Nova 1:29.573 7 23. Jason Tahinci FMS International no time 2 24. Luca Filippi Super Nova no time 5 25. Nicolas Lapierre DAMS no time 5
Morning times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Timo Glock Isport International 1:14.204 18 2. Antonio Pizzonia FMS International 1:14.282 28 3. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:14.312 22 4. Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing 1:14.405 14 5. Franck Perera Racing Engineering 1:14.418 24 6. Luca Filippi Super Nova 1:14.426 19 7. Lucas Di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:14.467 30 8. Kohei Hirate Trident Racing 1:14.475 23 9. Alexandre Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:14.548 29 10. Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:14.782 24 11. Ricardo Risatti BCN Competicion 1:14.806 26 12. Borja Garcia Durango 1:14.826 24 13. Karun Chandhok Durango 1:14.983 32 14. Mike Conway Super Nova 1:15.030 30 15. Roldan Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:15.065 28 16. Andreas Zuber Isport International 1:15.078 22 17. Nicolas Lapierre DAMS 1:15.125 22 18. Michael Ammermuller ART Grand Prix 1:15.130 31 19. Kazuki Nakajima DAMS 1:15.163 30 20. Jason Tahinci FMS International 1:15.437 27 21. Andy Soucek DPR 1:15.484 11 22. Bruno Senna Arden International 1:15.656 34 23. Adrian Zaugg Arden International 1:16.225 31 24. Christian Bakkerud DPR 1:16.470 17 25. Sakon Yamamoto BCN Competicion 1:16.824 28 26. Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix no time 2
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