Frentzen in form at Bahrain Practice

Frentzen in form at Bahrain Practice

22.01.2009: Heinz Harald Frentzen topped the hour long Speedcar Series practice session this afternoon at the Bahrain International Circuit ahead of two races to follow this weekend on Friday and Saturday. The German driver came in ahead of Gianni Morbidelli

Heinz Harald Frentzen topped the hour long Speedcar Series practice session this afternoon at the Bahrain International Circuit ahead of two races to follow this weekend on Friday and Saturday.
 
The German driver came in ahead of Gianni Morbidelli by less than a tenth of a second while Jean Alesi classified in third spot lagging by 0.252. Frentzen is currently in second in the driver championship standings after having finished second in the last race in Dubai. He commented on his practice timing, "This is a very good circuit and I enjoy the layout. It's not a simple track though and it is easy to make mistakes."
 
Vitantonio Liuzzi, winner of the last race in Dubai and currently leading the driver championship classified in 4th place. The new drivers to Speedcar Series Thomas Biagi, Giovanni Lavaggi and Enzo Panacci timed 9th, 12th and 13th respectively.
 
The race is expected to be a tight battle judging from today's practice where the first and the fifth car finished with less than half a second between them. The Qualifying Session will be held tomorrow at 10:40 followed by Race 1 at 15:30 local time.

The practice session classification is as follows:

 
Pos Driver            Teams                Laps   Time
                      
 1. H. Frentzen       Team Lavaggi         16     2:07.082     
 2. G. Morbidelli     Palm Beach           20     2:07.260   
 3. J. Alesi          HPR                  18     2:07.334
 4. V. Liuzzi         UP Team              12     2:07.413
 5. J. Herbert        JMB                  21     2:07.518
 6. H. Al Maktoum     UP Team              21     2:08.312
 7. M. Lee            HPR                  16     2:08.521
 8. J. Villeneuve     Durango              16     2:08.715
 9. T. Biagi          Palm Beach           21     2:09.104
10. D. Pasini         JMB                   8     2:09.606
11. C. Zoechling      Durango              17     2:09.820
12. G. Lavaggi        Giovanni Lavaggi     22     2:10.224
13. E. Panacci        Continental Circus   21     2:13.066
14. E. Charles        Continental Circus    8     2:13.992

 About Speedcar Series

Speedcar Series is a one-make stockcar-style competition featuring identical 620bhp cars. The series is based in Dubai and takes place across Asia and the Middle East. Speedcar Series features a mix of former Formula One drivers and international drivers. Season 2 offers a prize pot of 3 million US dollars with 500,000 US dollars awarded to the winning championship driver and an additional 500,000 US dollars to the winning championship team. Johnny Herbert is the reigning champion of Season 1.
 
About Grand Racing

Speedcar Series, responsible for promoting the event, jointly collaborates for a second season with GP2 Asia in 5 races under the 'Grand Racing' flag. Two of which will be coinciding with F1 in Malaysia and Bahrain.
 
Television

Speedcar Series TV packages are produced by Formula One Management and rights distributed by MP & Silva.
 

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