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Slovakia Superstars: Fabrizio Giovanardi's Porsche tops practice

Fabrizio Giovanardi will head into Superstars International Series qualifying at the Slovakiaring as the man to beat after dominating the second free practice session

Having gone third fastest in the morning's opening half-hour session, the Petri Corse Porsche driver made his intentions clear when the second session kicked into life by going three tenths under the earlier benchmark on his first flying lap.

The time stood for 10 minutes, before practice one pacesetter Tonio Liuzzi went fastest in his Romeo Ferraris Mercedes, becoming the first driver to dip into the 2m12s bracket with a 2m12.714s flyer.

But Giovanardi was not done. Following a lengthy red flag period to retrieve Francesco Sini's Solaris Chevrolet from the barriers, the former British Touring Car champion came out firing again, this time putting the matter to bed with a 2m12.302s best three minutes from time.

Liuzzi wound up second, unable to improve on his earlier time.

Giovanni Berton made it three different makes in the top three, a 2m12.970s putting him third in the Dinamic BMW.

Series leader Thomas Biagi (Romeo Ferraris Mercedes) was fourth fastest in practice two, ahead of Roma Racing Mercedes driver Luigi Ferrara, and the Audi Sport Italia RS5 of Gianni Morbidelli.

In the morning's first session, Dinamic BMW's Max Mugelli was the big surprise, splitting big-name drivers Liuzzi and Giovanardi to go second fastest. He backed up the solid morning's work with seventh in second practice.

Practice one:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Tonio Liuzzi         Ferraris Mercedes  2m13.336s
 2.  Max Mugelli          Dinamic BMW        2m13.582s  + 0.246s
 3.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  Petri Porsche      2m13.882s  + 0.546s
 4.  Gianni Morbidelli    Audi Italia        2m13.895s  + 0.559s
 5.  Thomas Biagi         Ferraris Mercedes  2m13.917s  + 0.581s
 6.  Giovanni Berton      Dinamic BMW        2m14.429s  + 1.093s
 7.  Francesco Sini       Solaris Chevrolet  2m14.477s  + 1.141s
 8.  Luigi Ferrara        Roma Mercedes      2m15.449s  + 2.113s
 9.  Mauro Trentin        Dinamic BMW        2m16.606s  + 3.270s
10.  Andrea Larini        Ferlito Jaguar     2m16.866s  + 3.530s
11.  Diabolik             Ferlito Jaguar     2m17.666s  + 4.330s
12.  Andrea Bacci         CAAL Mercedes      2m18.102s  + 4.766s
13.  Ferdinando Geri      Audi Italia        2m18.348s  + 5.012s
14.  Roberto Benedetti    RC Cadillac        2m18.698s  + 5.362s
15.  Leonardo Baccarelli  CAAL Mercedes      2m19.534s  + 6.198s
16.  Francesco Ascani     Todi BMW           2m19.946s  + 6.610s
17.  Max Fantini          Petri Porsche

Practice two:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  Petro Porsche      2m12.302s
 2.  Tonio Liuzzi         Ferraris Mercedes  2m12.714s  + 0.412s
 3.  Giovanni Berton      Dinamic BMW        2m12.970s  + 0.668s
 4.  Thomas Biagi         Ferraris Mercedes  2m13.199s  + 0.897s
 5.  Luigi Ferrara        Roma Mercedes      2m13.294s  + 0.992s
 6.  Gianni Morbidelli    Audi Italia        2m13.314s  + 1.012s
 7.  Max Mugelli          Dinamic BMW        2m14.227s  + 1.925s
 8.  Andrea Bacci         CAAL Mercedes      2m14.517s  + 2.215s
 9.  Francesco Sini       Solaris Chevrolet  2m14.792s  + 2.490s
10.  Roberto Benedetti    RC Cadillac        2m16.416s  + 4.114s
11.  Mauro Trentin        Dinamic BMW        2m16.549s  + 4.247s
12.  Andrea Larini        Ferlito Jaguar     2m17.304s  + 5.002s
13.  Diabolik             Ferlito Jaguar     2m17.372s  + 5.070s
14.  Ferdinando Geri      Audi Italia        2m17.451s  + 5.149s
15.  Leonardo Baccarelli  CAAL Mercedes      2m19.665s  + 7.363s
16.  Francesco Ascani     Todi BMW           2m19.875s  + 7.573s

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