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Indonesia quickest in practice 3

Ananda Mikola made the best of drying conditions to top the final free practice session at the Shanghai International Circuit for this weekend's A1 Grand Prix season finale

The Team Indonesia driver emerged fastest of all runners by posting his quickest time right at the end of the session, as the Chinese circuit slowly dried out following overnight showers.

Mikola said that he had made some set-up changes overnight, and that his laptime was indicative of his pace this weekend.

"We just tried a new set-up and it seemed to work," Mikola said. "But I've tried to push hard this weekend.

"In the last three races, I've been thinking about the fact that I could crash or whatever, but it's the last race now so I'm going to push like mad.

"I've just got to go and focus and concentrate this weekend."

Darren Manning finished the session second, having been the fastest runner for most of the session.

The 30-year-old, taking part in his first A1 GP race, was the quickest runner in the first 40 minutes of the hour-long session, when the cars drove on wet tyres.

Manning was also quickest for most of the dry segment, however Mikola's last gasp effort proved faster.

Mexico's Salvador Duran continued his fine showing this weekend with the third quickest time, ahead of Patrick Carpentier's Team Canada car. It was the former IRL and Champ Car racer's fastest session of the weekend so far.

Alexandre Premat was fifth quickest in the Team France car. Premat's lap was noteworthy because it was his first practice session of the weekend.

Premat is sharing driving duties with Nicolas Lapierre for the final meeting and will qualify the car for the team this afternoon.

Tomas Enge was sixth quickest in the Czech Republic entry.

Pos  Driver                Team            Time               Laps
 1.  Ananda Mikola         Indonesia       1:52.418            20
 2.  Darren Manning        Great Britain   1:52.423 +  0.005   15
 3.  Salvador Duran        Mexico          1:52.762 +  0.344   16
 4.  Patrick Carpentier    Canada          1:52.930 +  0.512   17
 5.  Alexandre Premat      France          1:53.001 +  0.583   15
 6.  Tomas Enge            Czech Republic  1:53.088 +  0.670   20
 7.  Michael Devaney       Ireland         1:53.093 +  0.675   12
 8.  Alex Yoong            Malaysia        1:53.183 +  0.765   16
 9.  Ryan Briscoe          Australia       1:53.448 +  1.030   16
10.  Christian Fittipaldi  Brazil          1:53.481 +  1.063   18
11.  Stephen Simpson       South Africa    1:53.516 +  1.098   15
12.  Tengyi Jiang          China           1:53.518 +  1.100   19
13.  Matt Halliday         New Zealand     1:54.088 +  1.670   21
14.  Jos Verstappen        Netherlands     1:54.135 +  1.717   19
15.  Giorgio Mondini       Switzerland     1:54.221 +  1.803   18
16.  Enrico Toccacelo      Italy           1:54.268 +  1.850   17
17.  Cesar Campanico       Portugal        1:54.445 +  2.027   16
18.  Mathias Lauda         Austria         1:54.462 +  2.044   17
19.  Graham Rahal          Lebanon         1:55.201 +  2.783   16
20.  Sebastian Stahl       Germany         1:55.229 +  2.811   18
21.  Philip Giebler        USA             1:55.528 +  3.110   12
22.  Adam Khan             Pakistan        2:05.872 + 13.454    9

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