Jani fastest in Saturday practice

Neel Jani, who is always fast here, put in a superb time almost three tenths clear of Team France driver Loic Duval.

Team Great Britain's Oliver Jarvis, yesterday's form driver, has work to do. The Macau Grand Prix winner had a minor off early in the session and then struggled with a front-left tyre that wasn't giving him the feel he wanted.

Although he went faster than yesterday and was still fourth-quickest behind India's Narain Karthikeyan, he was surprised by the pace of the front-runners.

"I knew they would be quick, but I didn't think they'd be quite that quick," said Jarvis, who won at Zandvoort on the opening weekend of the season.

Team Germany newcomer Michael Ammermuller also kept improving today, going sixth-quickest after a steady session and getting within a second of the pace.

Home driver Alex Yoong also had an off, but at least managed to improve as far as 10th place, which was far more promising than yesterday's showing.

Pos  Driver            Team              Time              Laps
 1.  Neel Jani         Switzerland       1:49.176           15
 2.  Loic Duval        France            1:49.468 + 0.292   18
 3.  N. Karthikeyan    India             1:49.711 + 0.535   23
 4.  Oliver Jarvis     Great Britain     1:49.806 + 0.630   19
 5.  J. Summerton      USA               1:49.879 + 0.703   17
 6.  M. Ammermuller    Germany           1:49.900 + 0.724   18
 7.  Adrian Zaugg      South Africa      1:50.158 + 0.982   21
 8.  Sergio Jimenez    Brazil            1:50.167 + 0.991   18
 9.  Erik Janis        Czech Republic    1:50.289 + 1.113   14
10.  Alex Yoong        Malaysia          1:50.466 + 1.290   20
11.  Cheng Cong Fu     China             1:50.477 + 1.301    8 
12.  Robert Wickens    Canada            1:50.482 + 1.306   20
13.  J. Bleekemolen    Netherlands       1:50.510 + 1.334   19
14.  Ian Dyk           Australia         1:50.651 + 1.475   23
15.  Chris Alajajian   Lebanon           1:50.706 + 1.530   17
16.  Jonny Reid        New Zealand       1:50.918 + 1.742    5 
17.  Adam Carroll      Ireland           1:50.981 + 1.805   20
18.  Enrico Toccacelo  Italy             1:51.311 + 2.135   18
19.  Satrio Hermanto   Indonesia         1:51.315 + 2.139   21
20.  Joao Urbano       Portugal          1:51.421 + 2.245   13
21.  M. Jourdain       Mexico            1:51.429 + 2.253   20
22.  Adam Khan         Pakistan          1:51.745 + 2.569   20