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Friday, 20 April 2012 06:26 |
 GP2 Series report and result from Bahrain - DAMS racer Davide Valsecchi sets the pace in Free Practice at Bahrain International Circuit to lead the way.
Davide Valsecchi showed he will be the man to beat for pole position today after the Italian set the best lap time in this morning’s thirty minute free practice session in Bahrain, a clear 0.6s ahead of Carlin’s Max Chilton.
The second round of the 2012 GP2 Series season opened up in scorching temperatures in Sakhir, Bahrain.
Johnny Cecotto was the first driver to take to the track, but it was Felipe Nasr who set the early pace with a 1'42.713, two tenths quicker than his team-mate Valsecchi.
A few minutes later, Cecotto moved up to P1 with Chilton making his way to P3, splitting up the DAMS pair.
Turn 2 was yellow flagged just before the mid-session as Tom Dillmann stopped on track following mechanical gremlins, and as soon as the track cleared Valsecchi put his head down and flew to P1 in a blazing 1'41.417 edging out Cecotto.
The Italian became the only driver to dip under 1'42 mark leaving his rivals on a mission to catch him, and despite having to apologise for unintentionally obstructing another driver on a fast lap, series leader Luiz Razia moved up to P4 just before the clock showed fifteen minutes remaining in the session.
While most of the drivers made their way back to the pits, Chilton benefited from a clear track to improve his lap time and take P2 ahead of Nasr while Fabio Leimer also found some extra pace on a traffic free circuit to claim P5, but later dropped to P6 after Razia improved and moved up to P5.
The closing minutes of the session saw very little change in the classification and at the chequered flag Valsecchi remained top ahead of Chilton, Cecotto, Nasr, Razia, Leimer, Esteban Gutiérrez, James Calado, Dani Clos and Fabio Onidi.
The qualifying session will start today at 15h55 local time.
2012 Bahrain – Friday Free Practice results
| Pos. |
Driver |
Team |
Time |
Laps |
| 1 |
Davide Valsecchi |
DAMS |
1'41.417 |
12 |
| 2 |
Max Chilton |
Carlin |
1'42.088 |
9 |
| 3 |
Johnny Cecotto |
Barwa Addax Team |
1'42.294 |
9 |
| 4 |
Felipe Nasr |
DAMS |
1'42.320 |
12 |
| 5 |
Luiz Razia |
Arden International |
1'42.390 |
12 |
| 6 |
Fabio Leimer |
Racing Engineering |
1'42.411 |
6 |
| 7 |
Esteban Gutiérrez |
Lotus GP |
1'42.649 |
12 |
| 8 |
James Calado |
Lotus GP |
1'42.853 |
11 |
| 9 |
Dani Clos |
Barwa Addax Team |
1'42.918 |
11 |
| 10 |
Fabio Onidi |
Scuderia Coloni |
1'42.963 |
10 |
| 11 |
Marcus Ericsson |
iSport International |
1'43.047 |
12 |
| 12 |
Julian Leal |
Trident Racing |
1'43.082 |
13 |
| 13 |
Nathanaël Berthon |
Racing Engineering |
1'43.139 |
6 |
| 14 |
Stefano Coletti |
Scuderia Coloni |
1'43.235 |
13 |
| 15 |
Rio Haryanto |
Carlin |
1'43.289 |
12 |
| 16 |
Simon Trummer |
Arden International |
1'43.377 |
9 |
| 17 |
Giedo van der Garde |
Caterham Racing |
1'43.470 |
12 |
| 18 |
Stéphane Richelmi |
Trident Racing |
1'43.485 |
12 |
| 19 |
Fabrizio Crestani |
Venezuela GP Lazarus |
1'43.532 |
10 |
| 20 |
Jolyon Palmer |
iSport International |
1'43.542 |
10 |
| 21 |
Rodolfo Gonzalez |
Caterham Racing |
1'43.726 |
12 |
| 22 |
Brendon Hartley |
Ocean Racing Technology |
1'43.754 |
14 |
| 23 |
Nigel Melker |
Ocean Racing Technology |
1'43.974 |
13 |
| 24 |
Tom Dillmann |
Rapax |
1'44.112 |
4 |
| 25 |
Ricardo Teixeira |
Rapax |
1'44.137 |
14 |
| 26 |
Giancarlo Serenelli |
Venezuela GP Lazarus |
1'44.697 |
13 |
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