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Caterham pair head Thursday morning at Bahrain test

by Peter Allen
Rio Haryanto

Photo: Sam Bloxham/GP2 Media Service

Rio Haryanto edged out Caterham team-mate Alexander Rossi to top the morning session on day two of GP2 testing in Bahrain.

The Indonesian driver set a time of 1m39.129s, just 44 thousandths of a second quicker than Rossi.

Julian Leal was third for Carlin ahead of Racing Engineering’s Raffaele Marciello. Jolyon Palmer was fifth for DAMS ahead of Russian Time recruit Mitch Evans.

Stoffel Vandoorne took P7 for ART Grand Prix ahead of the second DAMS car of Stephane Richelmi, with the top ten completed by Arden’s Rene Binder and Campos driver Kimiya Sato.

Morning session times
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Rio Haryanto EQ8 Caterham Racing 1:39.129 32
2 Alexander Rossi EQ8 Caterham Racing 1:39.173 0.044 31
3 Julian Leal Carlin 1:39.538 0.409 22
4 Raffaele Marciello Racing Engineering 1:39.704 0.575 33
5 Jolyon Palmer DAMS 1:39.854 0.725 31
6 Mitch Evans Russian Time 1:39.870 0.741 15
7 Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix 1:39.913 0.784 32
8 Stephane Richelmi DAMS 1:40.045 0.916 29
9 Rene Binder Arden International 1:40.126 0.997 15
10 Kimiya Sato Campos Racing 1:40.154 1.025 25
11 Nathanael Berthon Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:40.190 1.061 18
12 Artem Markelov Russian Time 1:40.191 1.062 18
13 Conor Daly Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:40.233 1.104 10
14 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax 1:40.250 1.121 19
15 Andre Negrao Arden International 1:40.314 1.185 19
16 Takuya Izawa ART Grand Prix 1:40.678 1.549 30
17 Felipe Nasr Carlin 1:40.786 1.657 26
18 Arthur Pic Campos Racing 1:40.840 1.711 24
19 Johnny Cecotto Trident 1:40.842 1.713 15
20 Vittorio Ghirelli Trident 1:40.991 1.862 25
21 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 1:41.041 1.912 10
22 Stefano Coletti Racing Engineering 1:41.106 1.977 22
23 Jon Lancaster MP Motorsport 1:41.166 2.037 40
24 Simon Trummer Rapax 1:41.586 2.457 29
25 Facu Regalia Hilmer Motorsport 1:43.748 4.619 39
26 Daniel Abt Hilmer Motorsport 1:43.796 4.667 30