Bourdais quickest in practice 2
Sebastien Bourdais proved his desultory first qualifying session for the Grand Prix of Toronto was just a one-off when he pulled a healthy margin over the chasing pack in the Saturday morning free practice
The Newman/Haas Racing ace set a 58.778 seconds lap on the harder compound rubber to lap the 1.755-mile street course at 107.489mph.
The Frenchman was some 0.4 seconds quicker than RuSPORT's Justin Wilson, despite being one of the many to skid into a run-off area in the course of the session.
Wilson was 0.08 seconds quicker than former teammate AJ Allmendinger who set provisional pole yesterday to guarantee himself a slot on the front row.
The American beat his Forsythe Championship Racing partner Paul Tracy, who tried out the softer compound tyres on his final run. Tracy, however, outbraked himself into Turn 1, so his true potential wasn't realised.
Cristiano da Matta took an age to set a decently fast time, and ended up half a second slower than RuSPORT teammate Wilson, but just ahead of Nelson Philippe, who continues his impressive form for CTE Racing-HVM.
One of the stars of the session was Conquest Racing's Andrew Ranger, who edged Canadian compatriot Alex Tagliani (Team Australia) for eighth fastest time.
Tagliani's teammate, Will Power was again fastest of the rookies with 11th quickest time overall, just ahead of Mario Dominguez (Dale Coyne Racing), despite many excursions down escape roads.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastien Bourdais Newman Haas 58.778 27 2. Justin Wilson RuSPORT 59.106 + 0.328 32 3. A.J. Allmendinger Forsythe Championship 59.186 + 0.408 29 4. Paul Tracy Forsythe Championship 59.335 + 0.557 28 5. Cristiano da Matta RuSPORT 59.676 + 0.898 33 6. Nelson Philippe CTE HVM 59.859 + 1.081 30 7. Oriol Servia PKV 59.913 + 1.135 34 8. Andrew Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 1:00.001 + 1.223 30 9. Alex Tagliani Team Australia 1:00.134 + 1.356 28 10. Bruno Junqueira Newman Haas 1:00.231 + 1.453 31 11. Will Power Team Australia 1:00.458 + 1.680 26 12. Mario Dominguez Dale Coyne 1:00.489 + 1.711 31 13. Charles Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 1:00.794 + 2.016 32 14. Jan Heylen Dale Coyne 1:01.262 + 2.484 30 15. Katherine Legge PKV 1:01.315 + 2.537 30 16. Dan Clarke CTE HVM 1:01.495 + 2.717 10 17. Tonis Kasemets Rocketsports 1:02.150 + 3.372 31
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