Tarquini is fastest in Zolder test

Gabriele Tarquini kicked off the Belgian weekend in style setting the fastest lap in today’s 30-minute test.

With ten minutes left on the clock, the Italian driver in his SEAT León Tdi posted a 1:39.848, which he further improved to 1:39.726 in the dying moments of the session.

Chevrolet man Alain Menu emerged as the second fastest with a lap of 1:39.765, the only other driver to go under the 1:40. Mark.

Current championship leader Rob Huff placed third (1:40.050) just ahead of Tom Coronel (1:40.132) and Yvan Muller (1:40.308).

The SUNRED duo of Michel Nykjær and Fredy Barth were timed at 1:40.520 and 1:40.694 respectively to be classified sixth and seventh, best of the Yokohama Trophy competitors.
The Volvo C30 of Robert Dahlgren set the 10th fastest lap of 1:41.018.

The session was disrupted once by the red flag after 17 minutes, when Aleksey Dudukalo’s SEAT crashed into the tyre-wall at the Villeneuve chicane.

During the last minute Marchy Lee stopped his BMW car at Turn 2 because of a throttle failure, and the session was red-flagged for good.

A few drivers received warnings for not respecting the track limits and Kristian Poulsen had one of his fastest laps disallowed for straight-cutting a chicane.