Source: A1 Team Canada Press Office A1 Team Canada's Robert Wickens continued to make a name for himself in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport as the Toronto teen dominated Round 5's 'Rookie-Only' practice session on Friday morning at New Zealand's Taupo Motorsports Park.Wickens, turning his first career laps at the stunning 3.5km facility, blitzed the field of rookie drivers setting a lap of 1m17.070s, almost two tenths clear of second-placed John Martin debuting for A1 Team Australia. Canada maintained its front-running pace in the afternoon's hour-long official practice, Robert setting the seventh fastest lap time from the 22 competing nations.With 21 laps under his belt from the morning's rookie session Wickens headed into the afternoon's practice armed with track knowledge and some set-up adjustments to try out ahead of tomorrow afternoon's qualifying runs. Logging 18 more tours, his fastest lap, a 1m16.065s, was just half a second off of A1 Team France's timesheet topping 1m15.545s, set courtesy of veteran Loic Duval.Official Practice Session 1 - Rookie drivers and developing nations only POSA1 TEAMDRIVERTIME 1CANADARobert WICKENS01:17.1 2AUSTRALIAJohn MARTIN01:17.23IRELANDAdam CARROLL01:17.34GERMANYChristian VIETORIS01:17.45NEW ZEALANDBrendon HARTLEY01:17.56MEXICODavid GARZA01:17.77NETHERLANDSArie LUYENDYK01:17.88ITALYEdoardo PISCOPO01:17.99LEBANONChris ALAJAJIAN01:18.010USACharlie KIMBALL01:18.011SOUTH AFRICAWesleigh ORR01:18.412GREAT BRITAINJames WINSLOW01:18.413INDONESIASatrio HERMANTO01:18.814BRAZILClemente DE FARIA JR.01:19.015SWITZERLANDTom DILLMAN01:19.116MALAYSIAAaron LIM01:19.717PORTUGALFederico DUARTE01:21.318INDIAParthiva SURESHWAREN01:23.919CZECH REPUBLICJarek JANIS 01:31.8Official Practice session 2 POS DRIVERA1 TEAM TIME1Loic DUVALFRANCE01:15.52Adam CARROLLIRELAND01:15.83Neel JANISWITZERLAND01:15.94Christian VIETORISGERMANY01:16.05Jonathan SUMMERTONUSA01:16.06Robbie KERRGREAT BRITAIN01:16.0 7Robert WICKENSCANADA01:16.1 8Jonny REIDNEW ZEALAND01:16.19Jeroen BLEEKEMOLENNETHERLANDS01:16.210Adrian ZAUGGSOUTH AFRICA01:16.311Edoardo PISCOPOITALY01:16.412John MARTINAUSTRALIA01:16.513Sergio JIMENEZBRAZIL01:16.614Alex YOONGMALAYSIA01:16.615Narain KARTHIKEYANINDIA01:16.616Chris ALAJAJIANLEBANON01:16.817David GARZAMEXICO01:16.818Tomas ENGECZECH REPUBLIC01:17.019Joao URBANOPORTUGAL01:17.120Congfu CHENGCHINA01:17.321Adam KHANPAKISTAN01:17.722Satrio HERMANTOINDONESIA01:18.3
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