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Bahrain GP2 test: Alexander Rossi fastest for Caterham on day one

Alexander Rossi put Caterham at the top of the timesheets after the first day of GP2's final pre-season test in Bahrain

The American hit the front with a 1m40.604s in the final 30 minutes of the day.

That was just enough to withstand a late flyer from Hilmer Motorsport's morning pacesetter Daniel Abt, who fell just 0.012 seconds shy of deposing Rossi.

2012 GP3 champion Mitch Evans also got within one tenth of Rossi, but had to settle for third overall.

Conor Daly, who suffered a heavy roll one week ago in Abu Dhabi, edged Jolyon Palmer in the fight for fourth.

Johnny Cecotto meanwhile beat Raffaele Marciello and Vittorio Ghirelli - champions in the 2013 European Formula 3 and Auto GP series respectively - to sixth.

Ghirelli was the only driver change compared to the Abu Dhabi test, replacing Axcil Jefferies at Trident - which is yet to confirm its second driver for the 2014 campaign.

Arthur Pic and Facu Regalia had occupied second and third in the morning, behind Abt, but slipped down the order as times improved over the afternoon.

Pic wound up 17th in the second session, four spots behind Regalia.

Combined Wednesday testing times:

Pos  Driver               Team                Time       Gap      Laps
 1.  Alexander Rossi      Caterham            1m40.604s           43
 2.  Daniel Abt           Hilmer              1m40.616s  +0.012s  43
 3.  Mitch Evans          Russian Time        1m40.680s  +0.076s  41
 4.  Conor Daly           Lazarus             1m40.734s  +0.130s  39
 5.  Jolyon Palmer        DAMS                1m40.769s  +0.165s  38
 6.  Johnny Cecotto       Trident             1m40.829s  +0.225s  25
 7.  Raffaele Marciello   Racing Engineering  1m40.932s  +0.328s  42
 8.  Vittorio Ghirelli    Trident             1m40.976s  +0.372s  35
 9.  Felipe Nasr          Carlin              1m41.022s  +0.418s  35
10.  Stoffel Vandoorne    ART                 1m41.041s  +0.437s  62
11.  Jon Lancaster        MP                  1m41.045s  +0.441s  34
12.  Nathanael Berthon    Lazarus             1m41.065s  +0.461s  38
13.  Facu Regalia         Hilmer              1m41.131s  +0.527s  43
14.  Arthur Pic           Campos              1m41.192s  +0.588s  38
15.  Julian Leal          Carlin              1m41.195s  +0.591s  32
16.  Rio Haryanto         Caterham            1m41.275s  +0.671s  36
17.  Stephane Richelmi    DAMS                1m41.359s  +0.755s  37
18.  Stefano Coletti      Racing Engineering  1m41.394s  +0.790s  29
19.  Rene Binder          Arden               1m41.426s  +0.822s  35
20.  Andre Negrao         Arden               1m41.438s  +0.834s  33
21.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs  Rapax               1m41.548s  +0.944s  35
22.  Simon Trummer        Rapax               1m41.709s  +1.105s  31
23.  Artem Markelov       Russian Time        1m41.726s  +1.122s  43
24.  Kimiya Sato          Campos              1m41.739s  +1.135s  50
25.  Takuya Izawa         ART                 1m42.013s  +1.409s  61
26.  Daniel de Jong       MP                  1m42.282s  +1.678s  34

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