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Tuesday, 22nd January 2008

ART man leads the way as GP2 Asia test continues.

ART Grand Prix driver Romain Grosjean posted the quickest time as preparations for the first round of the new GP2 Asia series continued in Dubai.

After two days of running over the course of the weekend, the 26 car field returned to the track on Tuesday at the start of a second two-day test session, with Renault F1 tester Grosjean remaining the man to beat after pacing the weekend running.

Grosjean posted a quickest time of 1m 21.595s during the morning session – being the only person to break the 1m 22s barrier in the process – and ended up just under half a second ahead of FMSI driver Adrian Valles. Luca Filippi was third quickest, with the top six being completed by Karun Chandhok, Davide Valsecchi and Marco Bonanomi.

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In the afternoon session, Chandhok moved to the head of the field for iSport International, although his quickest lap of 1m 21.894s was some three tenths off the pace shown during the morning. Things didn't go completely to plan for the Indian racer however when he went off track and crashed with half an hour of the session left to run.

Valles was second quickest once again, while Bruno Senna jumped up the order from tenth in the morning to round out the top three. Filippi, Bonanomi and Grosjean rounded out the top six, with the ART man spending the afternoon running in race set-up and practicing pit-stops.

Pre-season testing will conclude on Wednesday before the season kicks off this weekend.

Morning times – 22/01/08:

1. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1m 21.595s
2. Adrian Valles FMS International 1m 22.025s
3. Luca Filippi Qi.Meritus Mahara 1m 22.363s
4. Karun Chandhok iSport International 1m 22.366s
5. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1m 22.395s
6. Marco Bonanomi Piquet Sports 1m 22.427s
7. Vitaly Petrov Barwa International Campos 1m 22.476s
8. Andy Soucek DPR 1m 22.495s
9. Jerome d'Ambrosio DAMS 1m 22.510s
10. Bruno Senna iSport International 1m 22.527s
11. Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1m 22.899s
12. Fairuz Fauzy Super Nova 1m 22.937s
13. Sebastien Buemi Arden 1m 22.948s
14. Michael Herck FMS International 1m 23.133s
15. Harold Schleghelmilch Trident Racing 1m 23.161s
16. Marcello Puglisi Piquet Sports 1m 23.566s
17. Adam Khan Arden 1m 23.646s
18. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing 1m 23.663s
19. Diego Nunes Barwa International Campos 1m 23.714s
20. Stephen Jelley ART Grand Prix 1m 24.050s
21. Alberto Valerio Durango 1m 24.081s
22. Christian Bakkerud Super Nova 1m 24.150s
23. Jason Tahinci BCN Competicion 1m 24.193s
24. Milos Pavlovic BCN Competicion 1m 24.225s
25. Hiroki Yoshimoto Qi.Meritus Mahara 1m 24.603s
26. Aarman Ebrahim DPR 1m 24.844s

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