It was a day of mixed fortunes for the Racing Engineering team at Montmeló for round two of the GP2 Championship. The day began promisingly with both Javier Villa and Sergio Jiménez setting competitive times in the morning’s free practice session. At the end of the thirty minute period, blighted by yellow flags following a number of incidents, the Racing Engineering drivers lined up 15th and 16th with Javi Villa only half a second away from a top five placing.
For Javi there were the early signs of the mechanical problems that would affect him in the afternoon which prevented him from setting the expected top ten time. Both drivers were confident of improving come the afternoon. As ever, given how short qualifying is, it was important for both drivers to have a trouble free run during the half hour session. However for Villa there were problems from the start when, in a repeat of his Bahrain problem, he again suffered a fault with the fuel system on his Dallara.
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