Piquet fastest in Silverstone practice
Nelson Piquet Jr headed the times in free practice at Silverstone to give his hopes of clawing back Lewis Hamilton in the title race an early boost
Despite spinning off with five minutes of the session remaining - bringing out the red flags in the process - Piquet clung onto the top spot by under one tenth of a second from Trident Racing's Gimmi Bruni.
Adam Carroll was third fastest for Racing Engineering, while Hamilton took fourth.
There have been a number of driver changes ahead of this weekend's races. After switching to iSport from BCN, Timo Glock was seventh quickest, while his replacement at the Spanish outfit, Luca Filippi, was 20th.
GP2 returnee Neel Jani was 15th acting as Nicolas Lapierre at Arden, while Brit Mike Conway was 22nd in the DPR Direxiv car normally driven by the injured Olivier Pla.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 1:31.012 17 2. Bruni Trident Racing 1:31.094 + 0.082 16 3. Carroll Racing Engineering 1:31.141 + 0.129 16 4. Hamilton ART Grand Prix 1:31.153 + 0.141 14 5. Di Grassi Durango 1:31.189 + 0.177 15 6. Premat ART Grand Prix 1:31.389 + 0.377 16 7. Glock iSport International 1:31.529 + 0.517 15 8. Zuber Trident Racing 1:31.641 + 0.629 16 9. Perera DAMS 1:31.687 + 0.675 16 10. Ammermueller Arden International Ltd 1:31.739 + 0.727 15 11. Viso iSport International 1:31.830 + 0.818 8 12. Lopez Super Nova International 1:31.970 + 0.958 14 13. Monfardini DAMS 1:32.147 + 1.135 15 14. Valles Campos Racing 1:32.247 + 1.235 14 15. Jani Arden International Ltd 1:32.376 + 1.364 16 16. Pantano FMS International 1:32.457 + 1.445 12 17. Negrao Piquet Sports 1:32.544 + 1.532 17 18. Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 1:32.809 + 1.797 10 19. Piccione DPR Direxiv 1:32.937 + 1.925 13 20. Filippi BCN Competicion 1:33.596 + 2.584 17 21. Hernandez Durango 1:33.676 + 2.664 14 22. Porteiro Campos Racing 1:33.788 + 2.776 18 23. Conway DPR Direxiv 1:33.809 + 2.797 17 24. Fauzy Super Nova International 1:34.038 + 3.026 12 25. Villa Racing Engineering 1:34.209 + 3.197 12 26. Tahinci FMS International No time 1
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