For the last three-day test session of the year, the GP2 paddock flew to Paul Ricard where American Jake Rosenzweig at Super Nova Racing was the only newcomer on the track for day one. On a 3D configuration and under glorious sunshine, DPR Michael Herck recorded the best laptime of the first morning, one tenth quicker than rookie Oliver Turvey at iSport International.

GP2 Asia race winner Christian Vietoris confirmed his good form: at the wheel of the Fat Burner Racing Engineer car, the German completed the morning’s top 3, only five thousands slower than Turvey. Thirteen drivers posted times within one second and five rookies finished in the top 10.

In the afternoon session, Romanian Herck claimed again the top spot, improving his laptime by seven tenths. Already quick in GP2 Asia third season opening event in Abu Dhabi Fabio Leimer at Fat Burner Racing Engineering and Sam Bird at ART Grand Prix completed the top 3, the Swiss ace finishing best rookie of the day.

In fourth, Turvey kept on making a good impression while GP2 Asia Series leader Davide Valsecchi finished with the fifth quickest laptime of the day at the wheel of the second iSport car.

On a similar track configuration, Roldan Rodriguez (Racing Engineering), Jules Bianchi (ART), Marcus Ericsson (Arden), Josef Kral (Super Nova), Kazimeras Vasiliauskas (Trident), Andrea Caldarelli (Party Poker) and Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean Racing) joined the session for day two where Super Nova James Jakes clocked in the quickest laptime of the day during the morning session in a 1:12.346.

Although fastest in the afternoon session, Brazilian Luiz Razia at Addax could not edge out the Brit from the top spot. Jakes then confirmed his top form by signing the second best laptime of the afternoon session, two hundreds ahead of Frenchman Jules Bianchi. The ART ace finished best rookie of the day.

Other rookies impressed today with Christian Vietoris (Addax), Sam Bird (Arden), Oliver Turvey (iSport), Alexander Rossi (Racing Engineering) finishing in the top 10 this morning imitated by William Bratt (Scuderia Coloni), Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean Racing) and Kazimeras Vasiliauskas (Trident) in the afternoon, Turvey and Bird appearing again in the Top 10.

In the morning, the first sixteen drivers ran within the same second while eighteen drivers ran within one second in the afternoon. Although third quickest this morning and untouchable yesterday, Michael Herck at DPR saw all his laptime of this afternoon session deleted due to the fact that his car was found underweight. The same misfortune happened to rookie Charles Pic at the wheel of the Fat Burner Racing Engineering machine.

The three-day test session will end tomorrow with British Jon Lancaster joining the GP2 field at the wheel of the DAMS car. The afternoon session will go from 1pm to 4pm.