It has been a trouble-free day today in Le Castellet where the first half of a two-day test session took place. The session was joined this afternoon by Estonian Marko Asmer, who was making his debut with Fisichella Motor Sport International.

The young Spanish driver, Javier Villa (right), set the fastest laptime this afternoon just ahead of teammate and championship leader Giorgio Pantano. Also quick was Pastor Maldonado – who set the pace this morning – in third, ahead of Luca Filippi. Both iSport International men finished 5th and 6th quickest, Chandhok leading Senna. Grosjean, Zuber, d'Ambrosio and di Grassi completed the Top 10.

Right at the end of the session, Lucas di Grassi posted a time under 1:13.000, but it was cancelled after it was proven that he had cut the chicane. The top twelve cars all posted times within one second.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Villa	Racing Engineering	1:13.037	-
2	Pantano	Racing Engineering	1:13.235	0.198
3	Maldonado	Piquet Sports	1:13.390	0.353
4	Filippi	ART Grand Prix	1:13.410	0.373
5	Chandhok	iSport Intl	1:13.436	0.399
6	Senna	iSport Intl	1:13.465	0.428
7	Grosjean	ART Grand Prix	1:13.628	0.591
8	Zuber	Piquet Sports	1:13.794	0.757
9	D'Ambrosio	DAMS	1:13.862	0.825
10	di Grassi	Barwa Intl Campos Team	1:13.917	0.880
11	Parente	Super Nova Racing	1:14.017	0.980
12	Kobayashi	DAMS	1:14.028	0.991
13	Petrov	Barwa Intl Campos Team	1:14.075	1.038
14	Nunes	DPR	1:14.110	1.073
15	Valerio	Durango	1:14.173	1.136
16	Soucek	BCN Competicion	1:14.192	1.155
17	Buemi	Trust Team Arden	1:14.283	1.246
18	Conway	Trident Racing	1:14.295	1.258
19	Tung	Trident Racing	1:14.383	1.346
20	Buurman	Trust Team Arden	1:14.512	1.475
21	Rodriguez	FMS Intl	1:15.161	2.124
22	Herck	DPR	1:15.373	2.336
23	Bakkerud	Super Nova Racing	1:15.423	2.386
24	Asmer	FMS Intl	1:15.951	2.914