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Alexander Rossi tops GP2 test at wet Barcelona

Caterham's Alexander Rossi turned pacesetter on a wet second day of post-season GP2 testing at Barcelona

An early morning deluge severely restricted running, and it wasn't until the afternoon, when the rain had finally abated, that serious times began to be posted.

It was Rossi who ended up top of the pile, the American working his way down to a 1m31.173s - enough to put him almost four tenths clear of the field but still way over 1s slower than yesterday's benchmark.

This year's Auto GP champion Adrian Quaife-Hobbs ended the day second fastest, having switched from Rapax to Addax for the second day.

Nigel Melker also changed squads and ended up third fastest for Racing Engineering, fractions ahead of Simon Trummer(Arden) and 2012 GP3 runner-up Daniel Abt (Lotus).

Unsurprisingly given the conditions, there was no shortage of incident across the day, with a total of nine red flags.

Three of those were caused by Lazarus's Rene Binder, who spun and stopped at Turns 5 and 6 in the morning and then halted at Turn 7 in the afternoon.

F3 Euro Series champion Daniel Juncadella and Rossi's Caterham team-mate Lucas Foresti also went off in the afternoon at Turn 4, before Pal Varhaug crashed his iSport machine at the same spot to bring the day to a premature conclusion.

Yesterday's pacesetter Luca Filippi didn't set a time in either the morning or afternoon for Coloni.

GP2 will next travel to Jerez in three weeks for the second and final post-season test of 2012.

Morning times

Pos Driver                 Team                     Time       Gap
 1. Facundo Regalia        Racing Engineering       1m51.799s
 2. Sergio Canamasas       Lotus                    1m52.023s  + 0.224s
 3. Alexander Rossi        Caterham                 1m52.118s  + 0.319s
 4. Nigel Melker           Racing Engineering       1m52.179s  + 0.380s
 5. Daniel De Jong         Coloni                   1m52.469s  + 0.670s
 6. Adrian Quaife Hobbs    Addax                    1m52.529s  + 0.730s
 7. Pal Varhaug            iSport                   1m52.536s  + 0.737s
 8. Arthur Pic             DAMS                     1m52.566s  + 0.767s
 9. Daniel Juncadella      Rapax                    1m52.648s  + 0.849s
10. Stefano Coletti        Rapax                    1m52.934s  + 1.135s
11. Jake Rosenzweig        Addax                    1m53.108s  + 1.309s
12. Jolyon Palmer          iSport                   1m53.196s  + 1.397s
13. Rio Haryanto           Carlin                   1m53.653s  + 1.854s
14. Felipe Nasr            Carlin                   1m53.776s  + 1.977s
15. Lucas Foresti          Caterham                 1m53.844s  + 2.045s
16. Sergey Sirotkin        DAMS                     1m53.890s  + 2.091s
17. Kevin Giovesi          Lazarus                  1m53.892s  + 2.093s
18. Rene Binder            Lazarus                  1m54.042s  + 2.243s
19. Stephane Richelmi      Trident                  1m54.096s  + 2.297s
20. Simon Trummer          Arden                    1m54.546s  + 2.747s
21. Eddie Cheever Jr       Coloni                   1m54.604s  + 2.805s
22. Julian Leal            Trident                  1m54.909s  + 3.110s
23. Mitch Evans            Arden                    1m56.843s  + 5.044s
24. Daniel Abt             Lotus                    2m00.783s  + 8.984s
25. Luca Filippi           Coloni                   no time  
26. Kevin Ceccon           Ocean                    no time
27. Ramon Pineiro          Ocean                    no time

Afternoon times

Pos Driver                 Team                     Time       Gap
 1. Alexander Rossi        Caterham                 1m31.173s
 2. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs    Addax                    1m31.552s  + 0.379s
 3. Nigel Melker           Racing Engineering       1m31.583s  + 0.410s
 4. Simon Trummer          Arden                    1m31.667s  + 0.494s
 5. Daniel Abt             Lotus                    1m31.763s  + 0.590s
 6. Stefano Coletti        Rapax                    1m31.773s  + 0.600s
 7. Rio Haryanto           Carlin                   1m31.822s  + 0.649s
 8. Sergio Canamasas       Lotus                    1m31.876s  + 0.703s
 9. Daniel Juncadella      Rapax                    1m31.883s  + 0.710s
10. Kevin Giovesi          Lazarus                  1m31.896s  + 0.723s
11. Daniel De Jong         Coloni                   1m32.027s  + 0.854s
12. Mitch Evans            Arden                    1m32.035s  + 0.862s
13. Jolyon Palmer          iSport                   1m32.036s  + 0.863s
14. Pal Varhaug            iSport                   1m32.039s  + 0.866s
15. Jake Rosenzweig        Addax                    1m32.040s  + 0.867s
16. Stephane Richelmi      Trident                  1m32.236s  + 1.063s
17. Felipe Nasr            Carlin                   1m32.243s  + 1.070s
18. Facundo Regalia        Racing Engineering       1m32.337s  + 1.164s
19. Arthur Pic             DAMS                     1m32.438s  + 1.265s
20. Rene Binder            Lazarus                  1m32.492s  + 1.319s
21. Julian Leal            Trident                  1m32.770s  + 1.597s
22. Eddie Cheever          Coloni                   1m32.781s  + 1.608s
23. Sergey Sirotkin        DAMS                     1m32.907s  + 1.734s
24. Lucas Foresti          Caterham                 1m33.840s  + 2.667s
25. Luca Filippi           Coloni                   no time
26. Kevin Ceccon           Ocean                    no time
27. Ramon Pineiro          Ocean                    no time

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