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France Flies in Friday Practice at Eastern Creek

Miroslav Sanytrák | 7.2.08 | A1GP

Australia - A1 Team France was on incredible form today, topping the time sheets in the second of today's two free practice sessions at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway as round six of the 2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport season got underway in wet and overcast conditions.

The 25-year-old French driver Loic Duval, who landed in Sydney on Friday morning and arrived at the track just one hour before the afternoon session began, managed to sign-on and complete all the necessary technical briefings required to take part in this weekend"s A1GP event. Duval recorded the best lap of the day on his first flying lap around the 3.93 km circuit, a blisteringly quick 1m18.675s, slashing A1 Team Germany"s lap record by half a second.

Canadian rookie Robert Wickens clocked the second fastest time of the day, closely followed by Great Britain"s Robbie Kerr in third and current championship leader New Zealand"s Jonny Reid in fourth.

Lebanon"s Chris Alajajian was on superb form today, setting the fifth quickest lap overall and the second fastest time of the hour this morning, recording the nation"s best ever time during a rookie and developing nations session.

Home nation A1 Team Australia"s John Martin set the pace in this morning"s rookie session on a drying track, putting in a series of competitive lap times and taking the top spot. The 23-year-old, who finished the day seventh overall behind the Netherlands" Jeroen Bleekemolen, is aiming high for qualifying tomorrow in front of his home crowd:

"Obviously we won"t be happy unless we"re on pole tomorrow, but I think that top five would be a reasonably good result for my second meeting. The car was ok today but we made a few changes between the sessions. We had to wait for the track to clear up a bit and then the China car spun so I didn"t really get the best lap on lap one, so I came straight back to the pits. Then when I went back out after that the grip was never the same so I guess seventh isn"t too bad, but I would"ve loved to have been a bit higher up."

France"s Loic Duval, who set the fastest time of the day despite arriving at the circuit just one hour before the session started, thinks there is still room for improvement:

"It was a bit tight for me because I arrived here at 1pm on the track, 11am at the airport, but I am quite happy. My lap was not perfect but still it was enough to get the best lap time. This afternoon the car was not too bad. We still have to improve a bit though, especially on my driving we have a bit to do."

A1 Team Australia seat holder Alan Jones was pleased with John Martin"s performance today:

"We are very pleased. When we tested John at Silverstone he showed promise. Then he backed that up consistently when he did the rookie drives. Because of that he has been rewarded with the lead drive and he hasn"t disappointed. At New Zealand he really didn"t get a chance to get into his stride for one reason or another, but we knew that there was an underlying thing there. New Zealand was the first time John had experienced push to pass and the first time he"d done a one lap dash on new tyres, so a lot of firsts for him. We knew that with that under his belt he"d be good here and I think he proved that in the rookies this morning."

A1 Team Switzerland, title leader when the series arrived for round five in New Zealand last month and defending champion Germany, struggled at Eastern Creek today, finishing the day 12th and 14th respectively.

Official Practice Session 1 - Rookie drivers and developing nations only

POS

A1 TEAM

DRIVER

TIME S1

LAP S1

TIME S2

LAP S2

TIME

GAP FIRST

1

AUSTRALIA

John MARTIN

01:31.148

12

01:20.530

6

01:20.530

 

2

LEBANON

Chris ALAJAJIAN

01:32.332

11

01:21.340

9

01:21.340

+0.81

3

GREAT BRITAIN

James WINSLOW

01:35.289

8

01:21.521

12

01:21.521

+0.991

4

MALAYSIA

Fairuz FAUZY

01:31.740

12

01:21.781

10

01:21.781

+1.251

5

FRANCE

Jonathan COCHET

01:30.650

12

01:21.807

11

01:21.807

+1.277

6

NEW ZEALAND

Earl BAMBER

01:39.235

5

01:21.833

13

01:21.833

+1.303

7

MEXICO

David GARZA

01:28.482

13

01:21.872

12

01:21.872

+1.342

8

CANADA

Robert WICKENS

01:30.811

9

01:21.955

8

01:21.955

+1.425

9

GERMANY

Michael KLEIN

01:34.473

11

01:22.252

10

01:22.252

+1.722

10

SOUTH AFRICA

Wesleigh ORR

01:31.087

9

01:22.579

9

01:22.579

+2.049

11

ITALY

Edoardo PISCOPO

01:32.017

13

01:22.608

9

01:22.608

+2.078

12

INDONESIA

Satrio HERMANTO

01:36.239

13

01:22.789

10

01:22.789

+2.259

13

SWITZERLAND

Tom DILLMAN

01:33.280

11

01:22.816

11

01:22.816

+2.286

14

BRAZIL

Clemente DE FARIA JR.

01:31.503

13

01:22.972

11

01:22.972

+2.442

15

NETHERLANDS

Arie LUYENDYK

01:33.973

9

01:23.028

9

01:23.028

+2.498

16

IRELAND

Niall QUINN

01:35.845

11

01:24.435

9

01:24.435

+3.905

17

PORTUGAL

Federico DUARTE

01:37.354

5

01:25.359

10

01:25.359

+4.829

18

CZECH REPUBLIC

Jarek JANIS

01:56.044

5

 

0

01:56.044

+35.514

Official Practice session 2 (14.00 - 15.00)

POS

DRIVER

A1 TEAM

LAP

TIME

GAP FIRST

LAPS

1

Loic DUVAL

FRANCE

2

01:18.675

-

24

2

Robert WICKENS

CANADA

2

01:18.941

+0.266

19

3

Robbie KERR

GREAT BRITAIN

3

01:18.996

+0.321

18

4

Jonny REID

NEW ZEALAND

3

01:19.102

+0.427

21

5

Chris ALAJAJIAN

LEBANON

2

01:19.337

+0.662

17

6

Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN

NETHERLANDS

4

01:19.669

+0.994

21

7

John MARTIN

AUSTRALIA

4

01:19.710

+1.035

15

8

David GARZA

MEXICO

4

01:19.854

+1.179

20

9

Jonathan SUMMERTON

USA

4

01:19.914

+1.239

25

10

Congfu CHENG

CHINA

6

01:19.990

+1.315

28

11

Sergio JIMENEZ

BRAZIL

12

01:20.062

+1.387

26

12

Neel JANI

SWITZERLAND

3

01:20.167

+1.492

25

13

Satrio HERMANTO

INDONESIA

4

01:20.535

+1.860

28

14

Michael AMMERMÜLLER

GERMANY

7

01:20.562

+1.887

15

15

Tomas ENGE

CZECH REPUBLIC

3

01:20.621

+1.946

28

16

Edoardo PISCOPO

ITALY

3

01:20.840

+2.165

25

17

Adrian ZAUGG

SOUTH AFRICA

4

01:20.891

+2.216

18

18

Narain KARTHIKEYAN

INDIA

5

01:20.936

+2.261

29

19

Fairuz FAUZY

MALAYSIA

7

01:21.028

+2.353

20

20

Joao URBANO

PORTUGAL

18

01:21.484

+2.809

22

21

Adam KHAN

PAKISTAN

5

01:21.633

+2.958

33

22

Adam CARROLL

IRELAND

3

01:21.797

+3.122

27

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