Next weekend marks the opening of the first GP2 Asia Series Championship in Dubai, and today was the first time the 26 title contenders got their first real impressions of the circuit.

Adrian Valles in his FMS car set the pace in the morning session on a sand-covered track which prompted many drivers to wait until the afternoon session.

ART Grand Prix driver Romain Grosjean topped the second session, setting the fastest lap of the day with a 1:22.497, ahead of Andy Soucek and Adrian Valles.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Grosjean	ART Grand Prix	1:22.497	-
2	Soucek	DPR	1:23.051	0.554
3	Valles	FMS International	1:23.078	0.581
4	Filippi	Qi-Meritus Mahara	1:23.079	0.582
5	Senna	iSport International	1:23.181	0.684
6	Bonanomi	Piquet Sports	1:23.265	0.768
7	Petrov	Barwa International Campos	1:23.505	1.008
8	d'Ambrosio	DAMS	1:23.684	1.187
9	Herck	FMS International	1:23.959	1.462
10	Puglisi	Piquet Sports	1:24.120	1.623
11	Bakkerud	Super Nova International	1:24.134	1.637
12	Buemi	Trust Team Arden	1:24.156	1.659
13	Kobayashi	DAMS	1:24.556	2.059
14	Chandhok	iSport International	1:24.589	2.092
15	Buurmann	Trust Team Arden	1:24.605	2.108
16	Fauzy	Super Nova International	1:24.620	2.123
17	Valsecchi	Durango	1:24.713	2.216
18	Nunes	Barwa International Campos	1:24.752	2.255
19	Pavlovic	BCN Competicion	1:24.800	2.303
20	Tung	Trident Racing	1:25.706	3.209
21	Schleghelmilch	Trident Racing	1:26.058	3.561
22	Yoshimoto	Qi-Meritus Mahara	1:26.128	3.631
23	Jelley	ART Grand Prix	1:26.789	4.292
24	Valerio	Durango	1:26.908	4.411
25	Tahinci	BCN Competicion	1:26.916	4.419
26	Ebrahim	DPR	1:35.134	12.637