Paul Ricard - Wednesday - Testing
For their first official test session at the Paul Ricard HTTT in 2006, the thirteen teams of the 2006 GP2 Series have shown their motivation for a perfect start of the new season.
Even though the morning weather conditions disturbed a little the first test of the two-day session with some rain, the drivers took advantage of a drying track to go for perfect drive in safe conditions.
Obviously working mostly on car set-ups, the teams did a great job, and today’s best lap was set by GP2 English rooky Lewis Hamilton from team ART Grand Prix, 2005 GP2 series winner. The Team is set to start another great season finding right away the best set-up to top today’s time sheet.

On the 3D Paul Ricard HTTT Track solution (3,853km), today’s session gave all the teams the opportunity to start a serious program for the 2006 season. The thirteen teams and 26 drivers will continue the session tomorrow with an expected better weather forecast.

GP2 Series - Testing 22/02/2006
1 Lewis Hamilton ART Grand Prix 01:12.838 30 laps
2 Jose Maria Lopez Super Nova International 01:12.957 31 laps
3 Lucas Di Grassi Durango 01:13.638 33 laps
4 Alexandre Premat ART Grand Prix 01:13.903 18 laps
5 Michael Ammermueller Arden International 01:14.006 50 laps
6 Nicolas Lapierre Arden International 01:14.010 44 laps
7 Alexandre Negrao Piquet Sports 01:14.103 54 laps
8 Franck Perera DAMS 01:14.106 36 laps
9 Gianmaria Bruni Trident Racing 01:14.410 24 laps
10 Adam Carroll Racing Engineering 01:14.560 25 laps
11 Ferdinando Monfardini DAMS 01:14.627 44 laps
12 Hiroki Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 01:14.827 16 laps
13 Luca Filippi FMS International 01:14.922 24 laps
14 Nelson Angelo Piquet Piquet Sports 01:14.977 31 laps
15 Tristan Gommendy iSport International 01:15.026 15 laps
16 Andreas Zuber Trident Racing 01:15.186 45 laps
17 Adrian Valles Campos Racing 01:15.253 20 laps
18 Timo Glock BCN Competicion 01:15.608 12 laps
19 Olivier Pla DPR Direxiv 01:15.638 30 laps
20 Fairuz Fauzy Super Nova International 01:15.701 14 laps
21 Ernesto Viso iSport International 01:16.006 15 laps
22 Felix Porteiro Campos Racing 01:16.143 31 laps
23 Jason Tahinci FMS International 01:16.348 25 laps
24 Javier Villa Racing Engineering 01:16.400 6 laps
25 Clivio Piccione DPR Direxiv 2 laps
26 Sergio Hernandez Durango 1 lap

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