12/11/2009
NEWS STORY
Today marked the last day of GP2 winter testing in Le Castellet. Following yesterday's strong performance, Super Nova's James Jakes claimed the top spot in the morning session and the best time of the day (1:12.516).
Oliver Turvey met iSport's expectations posting the fastest time of the afternoon session, thereby finishing second fastest overall, and claiming Best Rookie. Jules Bianchi (ART) finished a strong third, just two-hundredths behind the Briton.
Stefano Coletti (DAMS) also displayed great consistency and pace with a third quickest laptime in the morning and a second quickest time in the afternoon. Apart from Jerome d'Ambrosio (Racing Engineering) in fourth and Michael Herck (DPR) in sixth in the morning, the rest of the Top 10 was completed by rookies who have notably been amongst the quickest since the beginning of the three-day test session: Scuderia Coloni's Will Bratt and Andrea Caldarelli, Esteban Gutierrez (Arden), Christian Vietoris (Ocean Racing) and Turvey.
The young guns once again stole the more experienced drivers' thunder in the afternoon session, the top 7 exclusively consisting of rookies: Turvey, Coletti, Sam Bird (Racing Engineering), Bratt, Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean Racing), Josef Kral (Super Nova) and Vietoris. D'Ambrosio and Jakes follow while Kazimeras Vasiliauskas (Trident) completed the Top 10.
This morning, Marcus Ericsson's times were deleted due to the fact that his Barwa Addax car was found to be underweight.
This concluded the testing season for 2009. The next GP2 Series test session will take place here at Le Castellet at the end of March 2010.