Firman quickest in second practice
Formula One experience continued to show its worth in the second free practice session in Sepang, with Team Ireland's Ralph Firman setting the pace
For the second session in a row, the 23 A1 GP cars - Timo Scheider will take over the dormant Team Germany car tomorrow - kept it clean and the hour-long session ran uninterrupted. That was much like Firman's place at the head of the times, although for a brief moment - at the start of the hour - Sean McIntosh had the honour of being P1.
With all the teams conserving tyres for tomorrow's qualifying session, none of the drivers threatened Jos Verstappen's best effort from earlier, but nevertheless Firman's best lap of 1:56.663 was a strong effort on used rubber.
McIntosh was in impressive form in second, while Bryan Herta had his best showing so far in third, ahead of his fellow IRL IndyCar driver Tomas Enge in the Team Czech Republic entry.
Alex Premat was ragged in the Team France car, but the championship leaders still looked threatening in fifth, just ahead of nearest title challenger - the Team Brazil car of Nelson Piquet Jr.
Robbie Kerr was seventh fastest for Team Great Britain while Team China surprised by setting the 15th quickest time. Mathias Lauda was out of luck in the Team Austria car, with a technical problem preventing him from setting a time.
Pos Team Driver Time Laps 1. Ireland Ralph Firman 1:56.663 20 2. Canada Sean Mcintosh 1:56.952 + 0.289 18 3. Usa Bryan Herta 1:57.188 + 0.525 19 4. Czech Republic Tomas Enge 1:57.273 + 0.610 23 5. France Alexandre Premat 1:57.316 + 0.653 19 6. Brazil Nelson Piquet 1:57.344 + 0.681 15 7. Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1:57.347 + 0.684 18 8. Switzerland Neel Jani 1:57.374 + 0.711 17 9. Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy 1:57.506 + 0.843 18 10. Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1:57.525 + 0.862 16 11. Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1:57.605 + 0.942 13 12. South Africa Stephen Simpson 1:57.871 + 1.208 20 13. Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1:57.918 + 1.255 13 14. Japan Hayanari Shimoda 1:57.929 + 1.266 17 15. China Tengyi Jiang 1:57.959 + 1.296 19 16. New Zealand Matt Halliday 1:57.994 + 1.331 21 17. Australia Will Davison 1:58.040 + 1.377 19 18. Pakistan Adam Khan 1:58.066 + 1.403 12 19. Portugal Alvaro Parente 1:58.488 + 1.825 15 20. Mexico Luis Diaz 1:58.796 + 2.133 20 21. India Armaan Ebrahim 1:59.043 + 2.380 22 22. Lebanon Khalil Beschir 2:00.146 + 3.483 5 23. Austria Mathias Lauda no time 0
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