Bourdais heads second practice
As ever, he left it until the last few minutes to show his hand, but Champ Car's triple title-winner Sebastien Bourdais clocked fastest time in Saturday morning's free practice session in Mexico City
The Newman/Haas Racing driver, whose commitment through the final turn, Peraltada, was awesome to watch, clocked a time a little over 0.2 seconds clear of RuSPORT driver Justin Wilson, though the Briton's final flyer was held up by CTE Racing-HVM driver Nelson Philippe.
In fact, the top six drivers from qualifying yesterday ended up in the same order in this morning's session, with Team Australia's Will Power proving that he could have the pace to take his second Champ Car pole position on the trot.
Bruno Junqueira was fourth for Newman/Haas, while Ryan Briscoe looked spectacular on his way to fifth place, but ended up 0.8 seconds shy of RuSPORT teammate Wilson.
David Martinez pipped Forsythe Championship Racing teammate Buddy Rice with his final flyer, the pair winding up eighth and ninth, a full 1.6 seconds off the ultimate pace.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. S.Bourdais Newman/Haas 1:26.231 2. Justin Wilson RuSPORT 1:26.417 + 0.186 3. Will Power Team Australia 1:26.437 + 0.206 4. Bruno Junqueira Newman/Haas 1:26.682 + 0.451 5. Ryan Briscoe RuSPORT 1:27.268 + 1.037 6. Oriol Servia PKV 1:27.479 + 1.248 7. Alex Tagliani Team Australia 1:27.729 + 1.498 8. David Martinez Forsythe Championship 1:27.755 + 1.524 9. Buddy Rice Forsythe Championship 1:27.839 + 1.608 10. Andrew Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 1:27.910 + 1.679 11. Nelson Philippe CTE HVM 1:27.922 + 1.691 12. Jan Heylen Dale Coyne 1:27.987 + 1.756 13. Mario Dominguez Rocketsports 1:28.119 + 1.888 14. Charles Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 1:28.174 + 1.943 15. Katherine Legge PKV 1:28.231 + 2.000 16. Dan Clarke CTE HVM 1:28.272 + 2.041 17. Antonio Pizzonia Rocketsports 1:28.404 + 2.173 18. Andreas Wirth Dale Coyne 1:29.441 + 3.210
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