Bourdais fastest in warm-up
Sebastien Bourdais continued to tighten his grip on the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend by topping Sunday morning warm-up session
The French Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing driver took just 68.911 seconds to lap the 1.968-mile course, and beat RSPORTS' Alex Tagliani by more than 0.3 seconds, as the Canadian continues his strong seam of form this season.
Simon Pagenaud edged Team Australia team-mate Will Power for third, and Bourdais' team-mate Graham Rahal was fifth.
Surprise of the session was Conquest Racing's Matt Halliday who is at last starting to reveal the impressive form he showed in pre-season testing and was sixth in the session.
Meanwhile Oriol Servia, subbing for the injured Paul Tracy at Forsythe Championship Racing, continued the reacquaintance process with the DP01, and went a tenth of a second quicker than team-mate Mario Dominguez to set the eighth-quickest time.
Neel Jani nosed into the tyre wall in the closing moments of the session, breaking the nose wings of his PKV Racing machine.
Session times:
Pos Driver Team Time 1. S. Bourdais Newman/ Haas/ Lanigan 1:08.911 2. A. Tagliani RSPORTS + 0.324 3. S. Pagenaud Team Australia + 0.621 4. W. Power Team Australia + 0.743 5. G. Rahal Newman/ Haas/ Lanigan + 0.845 6. M. Halliday Conquest Racing + 0.966 7. J. Wilson RSPORTS + 0.988 8. O. Servia Forsythe Championship + 1.128 9. M. Dominguez Forsythe Championship + 1.198 10. K. Legge Dale Coyne Racing + 1.209 11. T. Gommendy PKV Racing + 1.216 12. B. Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing + 1.238 13. R. Doornbos Minardi Team USA + 1.322 14. R. Dalziel Pacific Coast Motorsports + 1.565 15. N. Jani PKV Racing + 1.905 16. A. Figge Pacific Coast Motorsports + 2.145 17. D. Clarke Minardi Team USA + 3.613
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