Rosberg Fastest at Paul Ricard

Rosberg set a time of 1:16.380 around the 3.853km "3D" track configuration during the afternoon session, shortly before a heavy rainstorm stopped the general session.

The rain deluged the track with an hour of the session remaining, although it allowed the drivers to take their first opportunity to run on Bridgestone's wet-weather GP2 series tyres.

The test continues tomorrow morning.

GP2 Testing, Paul Ricard, Day One:

Pos  Driver      Team                Time     Laps
 1.  Rosberg     Art Grand Prix      1:16.380  65  
 2.  Piccione    Durango             1:16.903  47  
 3.  Jani        Racing Engineering  1:16.984  47  
 4.  Viso        BCN Competicion     1:17.178  57  
 5.  Speed       iSport Int.         1:17.182  42  
 6.  Kovalainen  Arden Int.          1:17.199  23  
 7.  Piquet      Hitech Piquet       1:17.307  71  
 8.  Carroll     Super Nova Int.     1:17.368  38  
 9.  Sharp       DPR                 1:17.430  47  
10.  Pantano     Super Nova Int.     1:17.469  13  
11.  Lapierre    Arden Int.          1:17.484  54  
12.  Lopez       DAMS                1:17.661  29  
13.  Monfardini  Durango             1:17.766  58  
14.  Premat      Art Grand Prix      1:17.997  61  
15.  Alvarez     Campos Racing       1:17.998  40  
16.  Pla         DPR                 1:18.159  48  
17.  Garcia      Racing Engineering  1:18.168  60  
18.  Hernandez   Campos Racing       1:18.379  67  
19.  Fauzy       DAMS                1:18.497  31  
20.  Artam       iSport Int.         1:18.815  48  
21.  Negrao      Hitech Piquet       1:18.923  66  
22.  Bruni       Coloni Motorsport   1:18.987  24  
23.  Yoshimoto   BCN Competicion     1:19.233  51  
24.  Lauda       Coloni Motorsport   1:19.295  29  

All Timing Unofficial