Thursday marked the last day of the GP2 Series winter testing in Le Castellet. Following Wednesday’s strong performance, James Jakes at Super Nova claimed the top spot in the morning session and once again recorded the best laptime of the day in a 1:12.516. Oliver Turvey met iSport’s expectations signing the fastest lap time of the afternoon session, finishing second fastest of the day, and claiming best rookie.

Jules Bianchi at ART finished at a strong third place, just two hundredths behind the Briton. Stefano Coletti at DAMS also displayed great consistency and pace with a third quickest laptime in the morning and a second quickest laptime in the afternoon.

Apart from Jérôme d’Ambrosio (Racing Engineering) in fourth and Michael Herck (DPR) in sixth in the morning, the rest of the Top 10 was completed only by rookies who have notably been ones of 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.

In the morning, Marcus Ericsson’s laptimes were deleted due to the fact that his Barwa Addax car was found underweight. This concluded the testing season for the 2009 season. The next GP2 Series test session will take place in Le Castellet at the end of March 2010.