22/02/2007
NEWS STORY
Lucas di Grassi (right) and reigning champions ART Grand Prix may have finished the final day of the first GP2 series test at the top of the timesheets, but the real story at Circuit Paul Ricard was how incredibly close things are shaping up to be for what is already a highly anticipated season.
Lucas' top time of 1:09.768 around the 4.087km '2A' track solution in use today was just 0.079 seconds faster than Andreas Zuber's best for iSport International, as Lucas' team-mate Michael Ammermüller came home third, with Andreas' team-mate Timo Glock fourth.
Today's running saw the top 20 drivers covered by one second. This figure reflects a simply astonishing feat when one considers that the first chance anyone had to run the 2007-spec cars in anger, was just yesterday morning.
Today's Times - All Times Unofficial
| Pos | Name | Team | Laps | Time | Gap |
| 1 | di Grassi | ART Grand Prix | 92 | 1:09.768 | 131.039 mph |
| 2 | Zuber | iSport International | 93 | 1:09.847 | 0.079 |
| 3 | Ammermüller | ART Grand Prix | 87 | 1:09.990 | 0.222 |
| 4 | Glock | iSport International | 88 | 1:10.044 | 0.276 |
| 5 | Garcia | Durango | 59 | 1:10.175 | 0.407 |
| 6 | Nakajima | DAMS | 93 | 1:10.193 | 0.425 |
| 7 | Hirate | Trident Racing | 54 | 1:10.200 | 0.432 |
| 8 | Chandhok | Durango | 60 | 1:10.232 | 0.464 |
| 9 | Filippi | Super Nova | 64 | 1:10.250 | 0.482 |
| 10 | Pantano | Campos Grand Prix | 68 | 1:10.252 | 0.484 |
| 11 | Conway | Super Nova | 81 | 1:10.288 | 0.520 |
| 12 | Lapierre | DAMS | 94 | 1:10.356 | 0.588 |
| 13 | Perera | Racing Engineering | 88 | 1:10.408 | 0.640 |
| 14 | Villa | Racing Engineering | 77 | 1:10.412 | 0.644 |
| 15 | Senna | Arden International | 87 | 1:10.417 | 0.649 |
| 16 | Pizzonia | FMS International | 67 | 1:10.418 | 0.650 |
| 17 | Maldonado | Trident Racing | 71 | 1:10.492 | 0.724 |
| 18 | Risatti | BCN Competition | 58 | 1:10.493 | 0.725 |
| 19 | Rodriguez | Minardi Piquet Sports | 83 | 1:10.598 | 0.830 |
| 20 | Tahinci | FMS International | 85 | 1:10.741 | 0.973 |
| 21 | Negrao | Minardi Piquet Sports | 74 | 1:10.885 | 1.117 |
| 22 | Zaugg | Arden International | 68 | 1:11.038 | 1.270 |
| 23 | Bakkerud | DPR | 72 | 1:11.219 | 1.451 |
| 24 | Soucek | DPR | 81 | 1:11.287 | 1.519 |
| 25 | Petrov | Campos Grand Prix | 73 | 1:11.409 | 1.641 |
| 26 | Yamamoto | BCN Competition | 90 | 1:11.527 | 1.759 |