Trummer tops dramatic practice session

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09/09/11
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Trummer tops dramatic practice session The final round of the GP3 Series continued this afternoon with the second practice session at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Simon Trummer eventually claimed the top spot with a time of 1:45.103 set on his very last lap. The Swiss driver beat out Tom Dillmann who had been top for the majority of the incident filled session. Lotus ART’s championship contenders Valtteri Bottas and James Calado watched the session from the pits choosing to save their tires for qualifying tomorrow.

The field hit the track in scorching hot conditions, and it was MW Arden who was quickest straight out of the pits with Williamson setting the fastest time ahead of his teammate Trummer until Dillmann set a time to beat, going nearly one second quicker than the leading pair.

Title contender Alexander Sims had a session to forget when just ten minutes in he went off track at the Parabolica, hitting the tire wall – the Brit rejoined the session but was unable to better eleventh spot. Sims wasn’t the only driver to find trouble: Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, Lewis Williamson and Daniel Mancinelli were getting a bit too racy on track, and the result was a clash between the two Brits, also at the Parabolica, with Mancinelli also running off at the same corner.

As the session came to an end Dillmann was holding firm at the top of the time sheet for Addax Team, but with just one minute remaining on the clock Trummer snatched the honors from the Frenchman after slipstreaming teammate Mitch Evans, who had to settle for second. Quaife-Hobbs clung onto third despite his incident, while Evans, Gabby Chaves, Richie Stanaway, Conor Daly, Tamas Pal Kiss, Nigel Melker and Williamson rounded out the top ten.

Next up for GP3 is qualifying tomorrow at 08:45 local time.

Practice 2 times:

POS	NO	DRIVER	NAT	TEAM	TIME	LAPS	GAP
1	27	S. TRUMMER	SUI	MW Arden	1:45.103	14	0.000
2	23	T. DILLMANN	FRA	Addax Team	1:45.134	13	0.031
3	10	A. QUAIFE-HOBBS	GBR	Marussia Manor Racing	1:45.142	6	0.039
4	26	M. EVANS	NZL	MW Arden	1:45.245	14	0.142
5	24	G. CHAVES	COL	Addax Team	1:45.282	14	0.179
6	1	R. STANAWAY	NZL	Lotus ART	1:45.379	8	0.276
7	14	C. DALY	USA	Carlin	1:45.387	15	0.284
8	19	T. PAL KISS	HUN	Tech 1 Racing	1:45.415	13	0.312
9	31	N. MELKER	NED	RSC Mucke Motorsport	1:45.447	13	0.344
10	28	L. WILLIAMSON	GBR	MW Arden	1:45.467	6	0.364
11	4	A. SIMS	GBR	Status Grand Prix	1:45.638	13	0.535
12	25	V. GHIRELLI	ITA	Addax Team	1:45.658	14	0.555
13	5	A. FELIX DA COSTA	POR	Status Grand Prix	1:45.663	14	0.560
14	7	N. MULLER	SUI	Jenzer Motorsport	1:45.727	13	0.624
15	17	A. VAINIO	FIN	Tech 1 Racing	1:45.802	13	0.699
16	22	Z. AMBERG	SUI	Atech CRS GP	1:45.804	14	0.701
17	12	M. LAINE	FIN	Marussia Manor Racing	1:45.867	15	0.764
18	11	R. HARYANTO	INA	Marussia Manor Racing	1:45.912	14	0.809
19	30	M. CHRISTENSEN	DEN	RSC Mucke Motorsport	1:46.032	13	0.929
20	21	N. YELLOLY	GBR	Atech CRS GP	1:46.051	13	0.948
21	6	I. LUKASHEVICH	RUS	Status Grand Prix	1:46.098	11	0.995
22	20	M. STOCKINGER	PHI	Atech CRS GP	1:46.314	7	1.211
23	15	C. MACLEOD	GBR	Carlin	1:46.353	13	1.250
24	16	L. CORDEIRO	BRA	Carlin	1:46.446	13	1.343
25	8	M. ZIMIN	RUS	Jenzer Motorsport	1:46.792	8	1.689
26	18	T. HYLKEMA	NED	Tech 1 Racing	1:46.872	13	1.769
27	29	D. MANCINELLI	ITA	RSC Mucke Motorsport	1:46.991	6	1.888
28	9	C. HURNI	SUI	Jenzer Motorsport	1:47.709	13	2.606

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