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Friday, 27 April 2012 05:07 |
 GP2 Series report and result from Bahrain - Following the second round of the 2012 GP2 Series season a week ago, the thirteen teams remained in the island state for a standalone Round 3 of the championship.
Carlin racer Max Chilton set the fastest lap of free practice on Friday morning with a lap of 1'42.136, three tenths quicker than Series leader Davide Valsecchi while Rival Luiz Razia ended up in P3.
Both Scuderia Coloni cars were the first ones onto feed the track as the session opened in high temperatures at the Bahrain International Circuit.
It was a quiet first fifteen minutes with only nine cars on track as both Lotus GP drivers chose to do only one installation lap and sit out for the remainder of the session.
Giedo van der Garde set the early pace, but his lap time was soon improved by seven tenths by Chilton, his Carlin team-mate Rio Haryanto moved up to P2, but remained six tenths behind the Brit.
By mid-session, Valsecchi moved up to P3 ahead of Haryanto, van der Garde, Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson.
With ten minutes left on the clock, Jolyon Palmer stopped on track at Turn 10 forcing a shortly red flagged and at the restart with five minutes of the session remaining, Razia put his head down and took P2 for a few seconds until Valsecchi found some extra pace to edge out his rival.
At the chequered flag, Chilton remained P1 ahead of Valsecchi, Razia, Haryanto, van der Garde, Fabio Leimer, Nasr, Ericsson, Brendon Hartley and Fabrizio Crestani.
2012 Bahrain 2 - Friday practice results
| Pos. |
Driver |
Team |
Time |
Laps |
| 1 |
Max Chilton |
Carlin |
1'42.136 |
4 |
| 2 |
Davide Valsecchi |
DAMS |
1'42.436 |
6 |
| 3 |
Luiz Razia |
Arden International |
1'42.691 |
4 |
| 4 |
Rio Haryanto |
Carlin |
1'42.793 |
9 |
| 5 |
Giedo van der Garde |
Caterham Racing |
1'42.883 |
9 |
| 6 |
Fabio Leimer |
Racing Engineering |
1'42.947 |
5 |
| 7 |
Felipe Nasr |
DAMS |
1'43.008 |
10 |
| 8 |
Marcus Ericsson |
iSport International |
1'43.051 |
4 |
| 9 |
Brendon Hartley |
Ocean Racing Engineering |
1'43.076 |
6 |
| 10 |
Fabrizio Crestani |
Venezuela GP Lazarus |
1'43.109 |
8 |
| 11 |
NathanaÃNathanaël Berthon |
Racing Engineering |
1'43.193 |
3 |
| 12 |
Stefano Coletti |
Scuderia Coloni |
1'43.277 |
12 |
| 13 |
Fabio Onidi |
Scuderia Coloni |
1'43.283 |
11 |
| 14 |
Rodolfo Gonzalez |
Caterham Racing |
1'43.311 |
12 |
| 15 |
Dani Clos |
Barwa Addax Team |
1'43.405 |
5 |
| 16 |
Simon Trummer |
Arden International |
1'43.522 |
5 |
| 17 |
Nigel Melker |
Ocean Racing Engineering |
1'43.573 |
5 |
| 18 |
Tom Dillmann |
Rapax |
1'43.852 |
4 |
| 19 |
Giancarlo Serenelli |
Venezuela GP Lazarus |
1'44.613 |
9 |
| 20 |
Johnny Cecotto |
Barwa Addax Team |
1'45.449 |
3 |
| 21 |
Stephane Richelmi |
Trident Racing |
1'46.271 |
5 |
| 22 |
Jolyon Palmer |
iSport International |
1'53.449 |
3 |
| 23 |
Julian Leal |
Trident Racing |
1'57.225 |
7 |
| 24 |
Esteban Gutierrez |
Lotus GP |
No time |
1 |
| 25 |
James Calado |
Lotus GP |
No time |
2 |
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