Filippi sets the pace at Paul Ricard

Luca Filippi finished on top of the times on the second day of testing at the Paul Ricard circuit, where all GP2 teams completed their final test before the end of the season.

ART driver Filippi set his best time - 1:09.934 - in the morning session.

The Italian was the only driver who lapped the French track in less than 70 secconds.

All teams spent their day working on preparation for the races at Spa and Monza, the events that will close the season in September.

Filippi was closely followed by teammate Romain Grosjean in the morning, but it was Bruno Senna who was second quickest overall with his 1:10.054 lap, set in the afternoon.

The morning session was troubled for the iSport team, with Karun Chandhok crashing into Sebastian Buemi and Senna having to stop early due to an engine problem.

Estonian Marko Asmer completed his second day of work with the Fisichella Motor Sports team after being confirmed to the reamining part of the season.

The BMW Sauber tester, however, was slowest in the morning and 20th fastest in the afternoon.

Super Nova's Christian Bakkerud was unable to take part in the test at all after suffering from back pains again.

Morning times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:09.934 37 2. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1:10.060 44 3. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:10.146 50 4. Lucas Di Grassi Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:10.210 47 5. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports 1:10.265 41 6. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:10.271 46 7. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering 1:10.310 45 8. Roldan Rodriguez Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:10.375 38 9. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:10.379 51 10. Andy Soucek BCN Competicion 1:10.445 45 11. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports 1:10.471 44 12. Karun Chandhok iSport International 1:10.519 19 13. Alvaro Parente Super Nova Racing 1:10.524 41 14. Yelmer Buurman Trust Team Arden 1:10.533 50 15. Diego Nunes DPR 1:10.588 47 16. Jerome D Ambrosio Dams 1:10.593 43 17. Sebastien Buemi Trust Team Arden 1:10.625 31 18. Michael Herck DPR 1:10.842 40 19. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing 1:10.975 49 20. Mike Conway Trident Racing 1:10.999 58 21. Alberto Valerio Durango 1:11.017 52 22. Bruno Senna iSport International 1:11.111 19 23. Marko Asmer Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:11.345 54

Afternoon times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Bruno Senna iSport International 1:10.054 47 2. Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 1:10.272 42 3. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering 1:10.364 34 4. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 1:10.523 35 5. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports 1:10.563 47 6. Jerome d'Ambrosio Dams 1:10.591 47 7. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports 1:10.602 46 8. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:10.730 31 9. Andy Soucek BCN Competicion 1:10.794 38 10. Sebastien Buemi Trust Team Arden 1:10.816 23 11. Yelmer Buurman Trust Team Arden 1:10.819 49 12. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:10.824 35 13. Diego Nunes DPR 1:10.888 39 14. Alvaro Parente Super Nova Racing 1:10.889 42 15. Roldan Rodriguez Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:10.948 49 16. Mike Conway Trident Racing 1:11.031 43 17. Karun Chandhok iSport International 1:11.045 19 18. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 1:11.053 31 19. Michael Herck DPR 1:11.160 26 20. Marko Asmer Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 1:11.342 38 21. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing 1:11.538 32 22. Alberto Valerio Durango 1:11.743 30 23. Lucas Di Grassi Barwa Int. Campos Team 1:12.066 57

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