Villa fastest at Paul Ricard

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 at Fisichella Motor Sport International.

The young Spanish driver, Javier Villa, 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.

Test Times

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1.	Javier Villa	Racing Engineering	1:13.037	25
2.	Giorgio Pantano	Racing Engineering	1:13.235	34
3.	Pastor Maldonado	Piquet Sports	1:13.390	34
4.	Luca Filippi	ART Grand Prix	1:13.410	30
5.	Karun Chandhok	iSport International	1:13.436	30
6.	Bruno Senna	iSport International	1:13.465	45
7.	Romain Grosjean	ART Grand Prix	1:13.628	43
8.	Andreas Zuber	Piquet Sports	1:13.794	27
9.	JérÃ´me D’Ambrosio	Dams	1:13.862	24
10.	Lucas Di Grassi	Barwa International Campos Team	1:13.917	30
11.	Alvaro Parente	Super Nova Racing	1:14.017	39
12.	Kamui Kobayashi	Dams	1:14.028	34
13.	Vitaly Petrov	Barwa International Campos Team	1:14.075	25
14.	Diego Nunes	DPR	1:14.110	18
15.	Alberto Valerio	Durango	1:14.173	33
16.	Andy Soucek	BCN Competicion	1:14.192	38
17.	Sébastien Buemi	Trust Team Arden	1:14.283	37
18.	Mike Conway	Trident Racing	1:14.295	41
19.	Ho-Pin Tung	Trident Racing	1:14.383	47
20	Yelmer Buurman	Trust Team Arden	1:14.512	39
21.	Roldan Rodriguez	Fisichella Motor Sport International	1:15.161	18
22.	Michael Herck	DPR	1:15.373	29
23.	Christian Bakkerud	Super Nova Racing	1:15.423	10
24.	Marko Asmer	Fisichella Motor Sport International	1:15.951	15