Verstappen tops practice 3

Tire choice played an important part in the fastest lap times for the final official practice session of the Malaysia A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Sepang International Circuit presented by Astro, with the top eight teams on the timing sheet all having opted for new rubber.

A1 Team China was perhaps the biggest surprise, putting in the third fastest lap of the weekend knocking 2.433 seconds off his overall fastest lap time set in yesterday's second official practice session. With Tengyi Jiang having raced at Sepang before, his true potential is starting to show as he comes to grips with the A1 race car.

Official Practice Session 3 (11.00 – 12.00)

A1 Team Driver Time No. Laps
1 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1.55.193 8
2 Pakistan Adam Khan 1.55.489 16
3 China Tengyi Jiang 1.55.526 13
4 South Africa Stephen Simpson 1.55.660 16
5 New Zealand Matt Halliday 1.55.803 14
6 India Armaan Ebrahim 1.55.805 19
7 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1.56.195 15
8 Germany Timo Scheider 1.56.999 22
9 Switzerland Neel Jani 1.57.269 18
10 Ireland Ralph Firman 1.57.590 17
11 Canada Sean McIntosh 1.57.780 11
12 Malaysia Alex Yoong 1.57.896 13
13 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1.58.008 11
14 France Alexandre Premat 1.58.036 17
15 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1.58.517 9
16 Austria Mathias Lauda 1.58.539 17
17 Japan Hayanari Shimoda 1.58.546 14
18 USA Bryan Herta 1.58.668 9
19 Mexico Luis Diaz 1.58.855 19
20 Czech Republic Tomas Enge 1.59.018 9
21 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1.59.034 19
22 Lebanon Khalil Beschir 1.59.159 21
23 Australia Will Davison 1.59.507 6
24 Portugal Alvaro Parente 1.59.955 12

Qualifying consists of four 15 minute sessions with a 10 minute break between each. Only one driver per A1 Team is allowed to take part in Qualifying but that driver must have completed at least three timed laps in an Official Practice session. Each driver is limited to three laps – effectively one "flying lap" – per session and must record at least two times, an aggregate of which will determine that A1 Team's position on the grid for Sunday's Sprint race. The grid for the Feature race will be determined by the outcome of the Sprint race.