Perera heads practice 2
Those who believed this weekend's GP2 event around the streets of Monaco would be an ART Grand Prix benefit will have to think again, as DAMS driver Franck Perera just beat ART's Lewis Hamilton to the fastest time in Friday morning's second free practice session
Hamilton's session started badly when he locked up and slid down the escape road at Mirabeau. But he was soon in P1, as he has been for most of the weekend so far.
His 1:21.709 effort looked to have assured him of fastest time, but Perera produced a last-minute flyer that beat him by seven-thousandths of a second.
Hamilton could point to the fact he had to pass a Trident-run car in the Swimming Pool section, and that certainly cost him precious fractions.
Jose Maria Lopez kept up his strong form for Super Nova in third, ahead of the second ART car of Alexandre Premat. Adrian Valles was fifth for Campos Racing, with Gimmi Bruni rounding out the top six for Trident.
With qualifying scheduled to start just thirty minutes after practice ended, crashing was not a good idea. Hiroki Yoshimoto committed the cardinal sin, stuffing his BCN car into the barriers on the exit of the Swimming Pool and removing its right-front corner. The distraught Japanese driver won't be seen in qualifying.
To heap more woe at BCN's door, its second entry for Timo Glock ground to a halt on the track with a mechanical problem. No other teams encountered any problems.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Perera DAMS 1:21.702 19 2. Hamilton ART Grand Prix 1:21.709 + 0.007 16 3. Lopez Super Nova International 1:21.759 + 0.057 18 4. Premat ART Grand Prix 1:21.957 + 0.255 17 5. Valles Campos Racing 1:22.504 + 0.802 18 6. Bruni Trident Racing 1:22.635 + 0.933 18 7. Viso iSport International 1:23.014 + 1.312 13 8. Glock BCN Competicion 1:23.021 + 1.319 16 9. Monfardini DAMS 1:23.233 + 1.531 11 10. Carroll Racing Engineering 1:23.362 + 1.660 15 11. Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 1:23.403 + 1.701 19 12. Piccione DPR Direxiv 1:23.480 + 1.778 16 13. Pla DPR Direxiv 1:23.655 + 1.953 15 14. Pantano FMS International 1:23.686 + 1.984 16 15. Zuber Trident Racing 1:23.708 + 2.006 17 16. Villa Racing Engineering 1:23.855 + 2.153 16 17. Porteiro Campos Racing 1:23.876 + 2.174 14 18. Gommendy iSport International 1:23.937 + 2.235 13 19. Fauzy Super Nova International 1:24.099 + 2.397 16 20. Di Grassi Durango 1:24.256 + 2.554 14 21. Lapierre Arden International Ltd 1:24.489 + 2.787 13 22. Negrao Piquet Sports 1:24.605 + 2.903 20 23. Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 1:24.866 + 3.164 6 24. Ammermueller Arden International Ltd 1:25.071 + 3.369 9 25. Hernandez Durango 1:26.097 + 4.395 11 26. Tahinci FMS International 1:27.488 + 5.786 17
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