Lebanon's Morad leads first practice

Morad only ran for the final 30 minutes of the session, and his best lap, set in the closing stages, put him half a second clear of Michael Ammermuller. The former GP2 racer was briefly quickest for former champions Germany, as the team prepare for their first appearance of the season.

Series leaders Ireland moved up to third place with a late flyer from Adam Carroll, while Jeroen Bleekemolen - the only driver to have raced at the track before this weekend - ended up fourth for the Netherlands after setting the early pace.

Portugal were fifth quickest ahead of home driver Adrian Zaugg, who narrowly pipped reigning champions Neel Jani and Switzerland to sixth place.

Earlier in the day, Nicolas Prost had set the pace in the rookie session for Team France ahead of his second appearance as the team's race driver. He was only 11th in the main session though, which he put down to going in the wrong direction with set-up.

All of Friday's running was pushed back to the end of the day due to a delay in the cars and spares getting to the track on Thursday. The teams were given some more time to prepare the cars in the morning, and several teams still weren't ready when practice began.

Of the 20 cars racing this weekend, five didn't get any running on Friday. Brazil, China, Great Britain, Mexico and the USA did not complete a lap, and they will have just one session on Saturday morning before qualifying.

Pos  Driver               Team           Time               Laps
 1.  Daniel Morad         Lebanon        1:30.816           14
 2.  Michael Ammermuller  Germany        1:31.312  + 0.496  18
 3.  Adam Carroll         Ireland        1:31.500  + 0.684  17
 4.  Jeroen Bleekemolen   Netherlands    1:31.536  + 0.720  17
 5.  Filipe Albuquerque   Portugal       1:31.627  + 0.811  22
 6.  Adrian Zaugg         South Africa   1:31.881  + 1.065  21
 7.  Neel Jani            Switzerland    1:31.889  + 1.073  19
 8.  John Martin          Australia      1:31.983  + 1.167  12
 9.  Clivio Piccione      Monaco         1:32.035  + 1.219  20
10.  Earl Bamber          New Zealand    1:32.039  + 1.223  21
11.  Nicolas Prost        France         1:32.326  + 1.510  20
12.  Fairuz Fauzy         Malaysia       1:32.676  + 1.860  23
13.  Narain Karthikeyan   India          1:32.745  + 1.929  23
14.  Edoardo Piscopo      Italy          1:33.099  + 2.283  11
15.  Zahir Ali            Indonesia      1:34.032  + 3.216  13
16.  Felipe Guimaraes     Brazil                            0
17.  Ho-Pin Tung          China                             0
18.  Danny Watts          Great Britain                     0
19.  Salvador Duran       Mexico                            0
20.  Marco Andretti       USA                               0