Nicolas Prost: Rookie sessions in Brno!

Nicolas Prost made his track debut this morning in the two sessions for the rookies. He was on the worn tyres from Zandvoort and was immediately on the pace; he was able to give the A1 Team France engineers information in view of Sunday’s races. He made no mistakes and got to know the car better. The designated driver, Nicolas Lapierre, then took over. Once again the team preferred to concentrate on race set-up. It finished the day in seventh place and will prepare for qualifying during tomorrow’s free practice.

Nicolas Prost said after the rookie session: "What was important for me today was to get into the right rhythm very quickly and begin the team’s preparation programme by giving them reliable information. I think I managed to do that and this first test gave everybody confidence. The rookies go out on tyres whose state of wear is very varied, and the overall results are of very relative importance as lap times were not a priority. I like the Brno layout very much and I’m happy with my day. Finally, Olivier Panis’s input has been very useful and we’re all delighted to have him with us."

Results of the rookies session 1:

Pos	A1 Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Germany	Christian Vietoris	1'48.841		11
2	Portugal	João Urbano	1'48.842	0.001	10
3	Ireland	Adam Carroll	1'49.138	0.297	11
4	Switzerland	Natacha Gachnang	1'49.267	0.426	10
5	Czech Republic	Erik Janis	1'49.323	0.482	9
6	Australia	John Martin	1'49.382	0.541	10
7	Canada	Robert Wickens	1'49.402	0.561	10
8	Indonesia	Satrio Hermanto	1'49.461	0.620	13
9	Brazil	Sérgio Jimenez	1'49.641	0.800	9
10	USA	Charlie Kimball	1'49.742	0.901	12
11	France	Nicolas Prost	1'49.908	1.067	11
12	Lebanon	Khalil Beschir	1'50.184	1.343	11
13	South Africa	Wesleigh Orr	1'50.356	1.515	9
14	Malaysia	Aaron Lim	1'50.732	1.891	9
15	Netherlands	Arie Luyendyk Jr.	1'51.128	2.287	10
16	Mexico	Michel Jourdain Jr.	1'51.505	2.664	9
17	Italy	Paolo Bossini	1'52.017	3.176	8
18	India	Parthiva Sureshwaren	1'53.078	4.237	11
19	China	Marchy Lee	1'55.990	7.149	5

Results of the rookies session 2:

Pos	A1 Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Canada	Robert Wickens	1'49.037		11
2	Australia	John Martin	1'49.131	0.094	14
3	Ireland	Adam Carroll	1'49.372	0.335	10
4	Portugal	João Urbano	1'49.425	0.388	12
5	USA	Charlie Kimball	1'49.520	0.483	12
6	Malaysia	Aaron Lim	1'49.659	0.622	13
7	Lebanon	Khalil Beschir	1'49.954	0.917	8
8	Indonesia	Satrio Hermanto	1'49.976	0.939	11
9	South Africa	Wesleigh Orr	1'50.291	1.254	13
10	Switzerland	Natacha Gachnang	1'50.705	1.668	11
11	France	Nicolas Prost	1'50.773	1.736	11
12	Netherlands	Arie Luyendyk Jr.	1'50.840	1.803	11
13	Czech Republic	Erik Janis	1'50.881	1.844	10
14	Mexico	Michel Jourdain Jr.	1'51.222	2.185	13
15	Italy	Paolo Bossini	1'51.738	2.701	12
16	India	Parthiva Sureshwaren	1'51.885	2.848	12
17	China	Marchy Lee	1'51.955	2.918	13
18	Brazil	Sérgio Jimenez			0
19	Germany	Christian Vietoris			0

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