Piquet on top in final practice

Piquet put on a new set of tyres to set the time, in a dry run for this afternoon's qualifying session.

Alex Yoong was second fastest for Team Malaysia - the team's best session of the season so far. Yoong was only 0.364 seconds behind Piquet, using the knowledge he gained from racing at the track last year in V8 Supercars.

Team Great Britain's Robbie Kerr had his best session of the weekend, finishing third on a set of new tyres, only 0.410 seconds off Piquet's front running pace.

Several drivers continued to go off track as Eastern Creek, one of the trickiest circuits on A1 GP's calendar.

IRL race winner Bryan Herta had a high-speed 'off', running wide at Turn Eight and destroying his nose cone as he bounced over the grass, narrowly missing the wall at Turn Nine. The session was stopped to recover the car.

Hayanari Shimoda also stopped the session after running wide at the same corner, which caused Piquet and Portugal's Alvaro Parente to take avoiding action on the grass.

The session was stopped for minutes early after Austria's Mathias Lauda spun into a polystyrene corner bollard.

Pos  Team            Driver            Time              Laps
 1.  Brazil          Nelson Piquet Jr  1:19.476           15
 2.  Malaysia        Alex Yoong        1:19.840 + 0.364   11
 3.  Great Britain   Robbie Kerr       1:19.871 + 0.395   15
 4.  Portugal        Alvaro Parente    1:19.886 + 0.410   14
 5.  Germany         Adrian Sutil      1:19.922 + 0.446   19
 6.  Australia       Will Davison      1:20.029 + 0.553    7
 7.  Ireland         Michael Devaney   1:20.185 + 0.709   14
 8.  Italy           Enrico Toccacelo  1:20.325 + 0.849   21
 9.  New Zealand     Jonny Reid        1:20.502 + 1.026   15
10.  South Africa    Stephen Simpson   1:20.768 + 1.292    7
11.  France          Nicolas Lapierre  1:20.799 + 1.323    8
12.  Czech Republic  Tomas Enge        1:20.862 + 1.386   13
13.  Austria         Mathias Lauda     1:21.143 + 1.667   17
14.  Russia          Roman Rusinov     1:21.196 + 1.720   23
15.  Switzerland     Neel Jani         1:21.254 + 1.778    9
16.  Mexico          Salvador Duran    1:21.415 + 1.939    4
17.  India           Armaan Ebrahim    1:21.678 + 2.202   21
18.  Lebanon         Basil Shaaban     1:22.008 + 2.532    7
19.  Japan           Hayanari Shimoda  1:22.013 + 2.537   12
20.  China           Tengyi Jiang      1:22.013 + 2.537   17
21.  Netherlands     Jos Verstappen    1:22.165 + 2.689    4
22.  USA             Bryan Herta       1:22.379 + 2.903   10
23.  Pakistan        Adam Khan         1:22.458 + 2.982    6
24.  Canada          Sean Mcintosh     No time             0