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Bird and Canamasas fastest in the free practice

2013 GP2 Series. Round 6. Nurburgring, Germany. 5th July 2013. Friday Practice. Sam Bird (GBR, RUSSIAN TIME). Portrait. World Copyright: Alastair Staley/GP2 Series Media Service. Ref: _R6T3571

Free practice at the Hungaroring circuit, many new features are presented in this weekend in GP2 drivers, many changes, in previous articles named. The return of Dani Clos, he will compete in the GP2 with MP after his experience with HRT and this will be a further incentive for the category as team changes of Quaife-Hobbs (Himmler) and Teixeira (Trident) with the debut of Ghirelli (Lazarus)

As for the free session the fastest drider was Sam Bird (Russian Time) while Sergio Canamasas (Caterham) has been shown fast being second, both followed by Dillmann (Russian Time), Draft (ART) and Ericsson (DAMS), closing the top5. Only the first 3 have been off the 1:30:00. The new drivers have been adjusting back to the category and are in last positions with very little time to adapt in this session. Fastest laps were obtained in the first part of the training and it hasnt improved in the last few minutes. The temperature conditions were 30 º C and 45 º C on track. Championship leader Coletti is on a discreet 15 post.
Calado has suffered a spin at turn 11 and the car was stopped at 5 minutes from the end of the session he has only drive 7 laps while Nasr with problems only 2 laps, both of them has been the drivers with less laps
Pos. Driver Team Laps
1 Sam Bird Russian Time 12
2 Sergi Canamasas EQ8 Caterham Racig 14
3 Tom Dillmann Russian Time 14
4 James Calado ART Grand Prix 7
5 Marcus Ericsson DAMS 15
6 Johnny Cecotto Arden International 15
7 Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 12
8 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 13
9 Stephane Richelmi DAMS 14
10 Jon Lancaster Hilmer Motorsport 14
11 “Nath” Berthon Trident Racing 15
12 Mitch Evans Arden International 13
13 Joylon Palmer Carlin 14
14 Julain Leal Racing Engineering 13
15 Stefano Colleti RAPAX 13
16 Alexander Rossi EQ8 Caterham Racing 15
17 Vittorio Ghirelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 15
18 Rio Haryanto Barwa Addax Team 15
19 Adrian Quaiffe-Hobbs Hilmer Motorsport 13
20 Daniel Abt ART Grand Prix 13
21 Simmon Trummer RAPAX 15
22 Dani Clos MP Motorsport 15
23 Jake Rosenzweig Barwa Addax Team 14
24 Rene Binder Venezuela GP Lazarus 15
25 Ricardo Teixeira Trident Racing 15
26 Felipe Nasr Carlin 2