Assen: Jani tops morning warm-up

Swiss Neel Jani turned a fast lap at the very end of practice to pip Graham Rahal off the top of the morning Champ Car warm-up. His lap of 1m19.797s beat Rahal's 1m19.816s lap by the slimmest of margins. Veteran Paul Tracy was third 1m20.058 ahead of Tristan Gommendy's 1m20.197s.

The track was wet from early morning rains but dried out about half way through as the times came tumbling down. Katherine Legge went off and lost the nose and slightly damaged the front suspension. Graham Rahal also spun off but came back to lead much of the session before Jani beat him at the end.

Jan Heylen still holds the fastest lap for the weekend, a few hundreds up on Neel Jani's time today.

Pos Driver Lap Time Leader
1 N. Jani 1:19.797
2 G. Rahal 1:19.816 0.019
3 P. Tracy 1:20.058 0.261
4 T. Gommendy 1:20.197 0.400
5 W. Power 1:20.282 0.485
6 S. Bourdais 1:20.315 0.518
7 J. Wilson 1:20.398 0.601
8 S. Pagenaud 1:20.406 0.609
9 R. Doornbos 1:20.481 0.684
10 B. Junqueira 1:20.511 0.714
11 D. Clarke 1:20.557 0.760
12 O. Servia 1:20.694 0.897
13 J. Heylen 1:20.775 0.978
14 A. Tagliani 1:21.243 1.446
15 R. Dalziel 1:21.347 1.550
16 A. Figge 1:21.780 1.983
17 K. Legge 1:23.595 3.798