Bourdais fastest in second test

The Newman/Haas driver took just 21.406 seconds to lap the 1.032-mile circuit at an average of 173.559mph, his quickest time of the day, but was some 0.2 seconds off Justin Wilson's top time of this morning. The British RuSPORT driver and team-mate AJ Allmendinger were seventh and ninth this afternoon.

Bourdais' team-mate Bruno Junqueira also set his fastest time of the day this afternoon to go third fastest in the session, fourth fastest in combined session times.

The three-hour session was brought to a close 20 minutes early however, due to a big shunt for Frenchman Nelson Philippe who backed his car into the wall between Turns 3 and 4, and has gone to hospital for precautionary scans.

The CTE Racing-HVM driver had looked extremely quick all day, and was fourth fastest when the accident happened. It was the second shunt of the session, as Oriol Servia drove his PKV Racing entry into the wall after 45 minutes of the session when a suspected component failure in the front-right suspension left him with no steering.

Team Australia's Alex Tagliani maintained his momentum from this morning's session, and wound up in second, just a tenth slower than Bourdais, while his team-mate Will Power remained quickest of the rookies to take eighth overall, and 10th in the combined test results.

Forsythe Championship Racing pairing of Paul Tracy and Mario Dominguez were fifth and sixth quickest.

Britain's Katherine Legge was another who found more time in the second session, to go 10th (13th in the combined times).

Combined testing times:

Pos  Driver              Team              Time
 1.  Justin Wilson       RuSPORT         21.215
 2.  Sebastien Bourdais  Newman/Haas     21.406  + 0.191
 3.  Alex Tagliani       Team Australia  21.457  + 0.242
 4.  Bruno Junqueira     Newman/Haas     21.526  + 0.311
 5.  Mario Dominguez     Forsythe        21.580  + 0.365
 6.  Nelson Philippe     CTE-HVM         21.633  + 0.418
 7.  Paul Tracy          Forsythe        21.670  + 0.455
 8.  Oriol Servia        PKV             21.710  + 0.495
 9.  AJ Allmendinger     RuSPORT         21.933  + 0.718
10.  Will Power          Team Australia  22.016  + 0.801
11.  Cristiano da Matta  Dale Coyne      22.276  + 1.061
12.  Dan Clarke          CTE-HVM         22.454  + 1.239
13.  Katherine Legge     PKV             22.473  + 1.258
14.  Charles Zwolsman    Conquest        22.612  + 1.397
15.  Andrew Ranger       Conquest        22.632  + 1.417
16.  Jan Heylen          Dale Coyne      23.349  + 2.129
17.  Nicky Pastorelli    Rockersports    23.909  + 2.694