Lapierre tops second session
The only two countries to have won an A1 Grand Prix race again led the way in the second free practice session for this weekend's fourth round of the championship at Eastern Creek
Nicolas Lapierre's French car beat the Brazilian entry of Nelson Piquet Jr by 0.234s in the second session. However, despite both drivers being the fastest, they did not have trouble-free runs.
Both Piquet and Lapierre had incidents - Piquet spun, and Lapierre went off track and ran wide moments before the end of the session.
Lapierre's fastest time of 1:21 037s did not match Piquet's time of 1:19.266 that topped the first session, as most teams saved their allocations of tyres for tomorrow's qualifying session and Sunday's races.
Switzerland's Neel Jani finished third despite being in hospital yesterday with a fever, with the Dutch car of Jos Verstappen finishing fourth.
Salvador Duran finished fifth but was one of a number of other drivers who had excursions as they continued to learn the Australian track. Duran went off at the super-fast Turn One curtailing his session after damaging the Mexican car.
Team China's session also finished early after Tengyi Jiang damaged the rear of his car in an early crash into the tyre barriers, which brought out the red flag. Adam Kahn also stopped the session after spinning off in the Pakistan entry.
Pos Team Driver Time Laps 1. France Nicolas Lapierre 1:21.037 21 2. Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1:21.271 + 0.234 23 3. Switzerland Neel Jani 15 1:21.592 + 0.555 19 4. Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1:21.882 + 0.845 20 5. Mexico Salvador Duran 1:21.953 + 0.916 11 6. New Zealand Jonny Reid 1:21.956 + 0.919 26 7. Malaysia Alex Yoong 1:21.970 + 0.933 22 8. Germany Adrian Sutil 1:21.984 + 0.947 20 9. Czech Republic Tomas Enge 1:21.998 + 0.961 26 10. Canada Sean Mcintosh 1:22.010 + 0.973 24 11. Portugal Alvaro Parente 1:22.021 + 0.984 22 12. USA Bryan Herta 1:22.084 + 1.047 21 13. Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1:22.173 + 1.136 21 14. Ireland Michael Devaney 1:22.174 + 1.137 23 15. India Armaan Ebrahim 1:22.567 + 1.530 25 16. Australia Will Davison 1:22.581 + 1.544 20 17. South Africa Stephen Simpson 1:22.785 + 1.748 23 18. Austria Mathias Lauda 1:23.101 + 2.064 28 19. Pakistan Adam Khan 1:23.127 + 2.090 5 20. Russia Roman Rusinov 1:23.230 + 2.193 27 21. Japan Hayanari Shimoda 1:23.512 + 2.475 28 22. Lebanon Basil Shaaban 1:23.513 + 2.476 26 23. China Tengyi Jiang 1:23.917 + 2.880 3 24. Italy Andrea Montermini 1:24.118 + 3.081 22
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