Watts and Prost top rookie practice

Watts, who scored two podiums on his series race debut at Chengdu two weeks ago, finished six tenths of a second clear of Prost in the first session of the weekend, before Prost improved to a 1:50.679 - four tenths faster than Watts' benchmark - at the end of the second half hour session.

"We were quick all session so it was a very positive morning," said Prost. "I worked a lot learning the track on a PlayStation before I came here but I wasn't ready for the temperature, which will make the race very tough."

New Zealander's Earl Bamber put his circuit knowledge to good use to finish the morning third quickest, ahead of local driver Aaron Lim (Team Malaysia) and Formula 3 racer Stefano Coletti, who set the fifth quickest time on his A1GP debut.

JR Hildebrand, Armando Parente and Ashley Walsh each also made their first appearances in A1GP this morning, completing the rookie sessions for Team USA, Team Portugal and Team Australia respectively.

Pos Driver                  Team             Time         Gap
 1. Danny Watts             Great Britain    1:51.096
 2. Nicolas Prost           France           1:51.764  +0.668
 3. Armaan Ebrahim          India            1:52.739  +1.643
 4. Earl Bamber             New Zealand      1:52.933  +1.837
 5. Dennis Retera           Netherlands      1:53.221  +2.125
 6. J.R. Hildebrand         USA              1:53.423  +2.327
 7. Aaron Lim               Malaysia         1:53.589  +2.493
 8. Niall Quinn             Ireland          1:53.676  +2.580
 9. Felipe Guimaraes        Brazil           1:54.126  +3.030
10. Armando Parente         Portugal         1:54.236  +3.140
11. Stefano Coletti         Italy            1:54.921  +3.825
12. Gavin Cronje            South Africa     1:55.043  +3.947
13. Ashley Walsh            Australia        1:55.400  +4.304
14. Zahir Ali               Indonesia        1:56.058  +4.962
15. Daniel Morad            Lebanon          2:00.672  +9.576
16. Jin-Woo Hwangv          Korea            no time
17. Alexandre Imperatori    Switzerland      no time

Session Two

Pos Driver                  Team            Time          Gap
 1. Nicolas Prost           France          1:50.679
 2. Earl Bamber             New Zealand     1:51.240   +0.561
 3. Danny Watts             Great Britain   1:51.319   +0.640
 4. Aaron Lim               Malaysia        1:51.815   +1.136
 5. Stefano Coletti         Italy           1:51.839   +1.160
 6. Daniel Morad            Lebanon         1:52.008   +1.329
 7. Armaan Ebrahim          India           1:52.205   +1.526
 8. J.R. Hildebrand         USA             1:52.325   +1.646
 9. Dennis Retera           Netherlands     1:52.603   +1.924
10. Gavin Cronje            South Africa    1:52.747   +2.068
11. Armando Parente         Portugal        1:53.272   +2.593
12. Ashley Walsh            Australia       1:53.277   +2.598
13. Jin-Woo Hwang           Korea           1:54.499   +3.820
14. Zahir Ali               Indonesia       1:54.903   +4.224
15. Felipe Guimaraes        Brazil          2:14.510  +23.831