France top Eastern Creek practice

Duval turned in a quick lap on new tyres early in the session, despite having arrived at the circuit just in time to get in the car. He'd had to rush to the track after completing two days of testing in Japan yesterday.

He will now be looking to convert today's form into a pole position tomorrow and that elusive race victory on Sunday.

Duval headed regular front-runners Robert Wickens (Team Canada), Robbie Kerr (Team Great Britain) and Jonny Reid (Team New Zealand).

Team Lebanon's Chris Alajajian kept up today's good work in the rookie session by coming in fifth-quickest, showing up several of the more fancied runners.

Among them, Michael Ammermuller (Team Germany) had a slow session that ended in the gravel trap, Team Ireland's Adam Carroll wound up last and Team Switzerland's Neel Jani was an uncharacteristic 12th.

Home driver John Martin (Team Australia) was not as impressive as this morning when he topped the rookie session, as he was unable to get the best out of his new tyres at the start of the session. But both he and team boss Alan Jones were happy with his pace over a long run and expect him to contend in qualifying.

Pos  Driver            Team            Time               Laps
 1.  Loïc Duval        France          1:18.675            24
 2.  Robert Wickens    Canada          1:18.941  + 0.266   19
 3.  Robbie Kerr       Great Britain   1:18.996  + 0.321   18
 4.  Jonny Reid        New Zealand     1:19.102  + 0.427   21
 5.  Chris Alajajian   Lebanon         1:19.337  + 0.662   17
 6.  J.Bleekemolen     Netherlands     1:19.669  + 0.994   21
 7.  John Martin       Australia       1:19.710  + 1.035   15
 8.  David Garza       Mexico          1:19.854  + 1.179   20
 9.  J.Summerton       USA             1:19.914  + 1.239   25
10.  Cheng Cong Fu     China           1:19.990  + 1.315   28
11.  Sergio Jimenez    Brazil          1:20.062  + 1.387   26
12.  Neel Jani         Switzerland     1:20.167  + 1.492   25
13.  Satrio Hermanto   Indonesia       1:20.535  + 1.86    28
14.  M.Ammermuller     Germany         1:20.562  + 1.887   15
15.  Tomas Enge        Czech Republic  1:20.621  + 1.946   28
16.  Edoardo Piscopo   Italy           1:20.840  + 2.165   25
17.  Adrian Zaugg      South Africa    1:20.891  + 2.216   18
18.  N.Karthikeyan     India           1:20.936  + 2.261   29
19.  Fairuz Fauzy      Malaysia        1:21.028  + 2.353   20
20.  Joao Urbano       Portugal        1:21.484  + 2.809   22
21.  Adam Khan         Pakistan        1:21.633  + 2.958   33
22.  Adam Carroll      Ireland         1:21.797  + 3.122   27