Premat fastest in warm-up
Alexandre Premat set the pace for Team France in the final warm-up session at Estoril, ahead of this afternoon's sprint and feature races
Premat lapped the Portuguese circuit in 1:31.577, beating Team Switzerland's Neel Jani, who was a mere 0.113 behind the Frenchman.
A third GP2 driver, Scott Speed, was third fastest, with former F1 drivers JOs Verstappen and Ralph Firman setting the fourth and fith fastest times respectively.
Pole sitter for today's sprint race, Brazil's Nelson Piquet Junior, was ninth fastest, some second off Premat's pace.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Alexandre Premat France 1:31.577 8 2. Neel Jani Switzerland 1:31.690 + 0.113 7 3. Scott Speed USA 1:31.894 + 0.317 9 4. Jos Verstappen Netherlands 1:32.064 + 0.487 8 5. Ralph Firman Ireland 1:32.156 + 0.579 9 6. Tomas Enge Czech Republic 1:32.490 + 0.913 9 7. Robbie Kerr Great Britain 1:32.499 + 0.922 8 8. Enrico Toccacelo Italy 1:32.608 + 1.031 8 9. Nelson Piquet Jr Brazil 1:32.640 + 1.063 9 10. Mikhail Aleshin Russia 1:32.648 + 1.071 8 11. Alvaro Parente Portugal 1:32.808 + 1.231 8 12. Adrian Sutil Germany 1:32.860 + 1.283 8 13. Fairuz Fauzy Malaysia 1:32.956 + 1.379 8 14. Sean Mcintosh Canada 1:32.972 + 1.395 9 15. Ananda Mikola Indonesia 1:33.314 + 1.737 7 16. Salvador Duran Mexico 1:33.534 + 1.957 8 17. Tomas Scheckter South Africa 1:33.741 + 2.164 9 18. Mathias Lauda Austria 1:33.775 + 2.198 8 19. Will Davison Australia 1:33.871 + 2.294 8 20. Matt Halliday New Zealand 1:34.044 + 2.467 8 21. Basil Shaaban Lebanon 1:34.483 + 2.906 9 22. Adam Khan Pakistan 1:34.554 + 2.977 7 23. Tengyi Jiang China 1:34.772 + 3.195 8 24. Armaan Ebrahim India 1:35.684 + 4.107 8
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