11/11/2009
NEWS STORY
The second day of GP2 Series winter testing at Paul Ricard resumed today on the 3D configuration. Super Nova James Jakes clocked in the quickest time of the day during the morning session with a 1:12.346. Although fastest in the afternoon session, Brazilian Luiz Razia at Addax could not edge out the British driver from the top spot.
Jakes confirmed his top form by posting the second best time of the afternoon session, two-hundreds of a second quicker than Frenchman Jules Bianchi, the ART ace finishing best rookie of the day.
Other rookies impressed today with Christian Vietoris (Addax), Sam Bird (Arden), Oliver Turvey (iSport), Alexander Rossi (Racing Engineering) finishing in the top 10 this morning and William Bratt (Scuderia Coloni), Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean Racing) and Kazimeras Vasiliauskas (Trident) in the afternoon, with Turvey and Bird appearing in the Top 10 once again.
This morning, the first sixteen drivers ran within a second of one another while eighteen drivers ran within one second in the afternoon.
Although third quickest this morning and untouchable yesterday, Michael Herck (DPR) saw all his times from the afternoon session deleted due to the fact that his car was found to be underweight. The same misfortune befell Charles Pic at the wheel of the Fat Burner Racing Engineering car.
The three-day test session will end tomorrow with British driver Jon Lancaster joining at the wheel of the DAMS car.