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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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