Parente dominates Barcelona test

Portuguese Alvaro Parente dominated the second day of GP2 testing at the Barcelona circuit on Tuesday.

On a sunny day at the Spanish track, Parente finished on top of the times both in the morning and the afternoon sessions, showing strong form in his first test as an official driver for the Ocean Racing Technology team.

Parente finished ahead of yesterday's pace-setter Lucas di Grassi, who was just 0.032 seconds slower in the Racing Engineering car.

Italian Davide Valsecchi was third fastest for Durango, with ART's Nico Hulkenberg and iSport's Giedo Van der Garde completing the top five.

The ORT team completed a good day thanks to Karun Chandhok finishing in sixth ahead of rookie Dani Clos.

A total of 18 drivers finished within a second of each other.

The three-day test comes to an end tomorrow.

Today's times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Alvaro Parente Ocean Racing Technology 1:26.948 23 2. Lucas Di Grassi Racing Engineering 1:26.980 +0.032 31 3. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1:27.101 +0.153 19 4. Nico Hulkenberg ART Grand Prix 1:27.116 +0.168 30 5. Giedo Van der Garde iSport International 1:27.269 +0.321 20 6. Karun Chandhok Ocean Racing Technology 1:27.309 +0.361 36 7. Dani Clos Racing Engineering 1:27.350 +0.402 22 8. Pastor Maldonado ART Grand Prix 1:27.394 +0.446 31 9. Jerome D Ambrosio Dams 1:27.407 +0.459 23 10. Luca Filippi Super Nova Racing 1:27.534 +0.586 32 11. Kamui Kobayashi Dams 1:27.553 +0.605 30 12. Romain Grosjean Barwa Campos Team 1:27.634 +0.686 27 13. Roldan Rodriguez Piquet GP 1:27.686 +0.738 23 14. Edoardo Mortara Telmex Arden International 1:27.686 +0.738 27 15. Javier Villa Super Nova Racing 1:27.744 +0.796 31 16. Andreas Zuber FMS International 1:27.823 +0.875 22 17. Vitaly Petrov Barwa Campos Team 1:27.828 +0.880 29 18. Diego Nunes iSport International 1:27.858 +0.910 31 19. James Jakes DPR 1:28.043 +1.095 26 20. Michael Herck DPR 1:28.158 +1.210 19 21. Nelson Panciatici Durango 1:28.184 +1.236 32 22. Sergio Perez Telmex Arden International 1:28.223 +1.275 28 23. Davide Rigon Trident Racing 1:28.513 +1.565 37 24. Luiz Luiz Razia FMS International 1:29.098 +2.150 32 25. Alberto Valerio Piquet GP 1:29.222 +2.274 19 26. Ricardo Teixeira Trident Racing 1:30.893 +3.945 24

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