This weekend, Canadian race car driver Jacques Villeneuve is down in Sao Paolo, Brazil to contest a round of the Top Race series, a South American stock-car series.Villeneuve is driving a Mercedes-Benz TRV6 powered by a three-litre, V-6 engine of 350 bhp prepared by team Avellaneda Motorsport.The first free practice session was held today, Friday and Villeneuve's car was hampered by electrical gremlins, restraining the number of laps he completed around the famed José Carlos Pace circuit of Interlagos.José Maria Lopez drove his Ford Mondeo to first place overall today. Villeneuve ended up 24th, 2.454 seconds down to Lopez. Thirty-nine cars took part in the session.Action resumes at 8:30 am Saturday morning with second free practice session. Qualifying will be held in the afternoon and the race will be run on Sunday. PRIMER ENTRENAMIENTO-TOP RACEAUTODROMO "JOSE CARLOS PACE"- SAN PABLO POS NUM DRIVER MAKE TIME DIF. 1 37 José María López MONDEO 1:44.8772 157 Juan De Benedictis MERCEDES 1:45.523 0.6463 2 Omar Martínez MONDEO 1:45.672 0.7954 0 Cacá Bueno MERCEDES 1:45.674 0.7975 68 Norberto Fontana PASSAT 1:45.676 0.7996 6 Gabriel P.de León MONDEO 1:45.684 0.8077 111 Juan Manuel Silva MERCEDES 1:45.693 0.8168 96 Guido Falaschi MONDEO 1:46.002 1.1259 1 Emiliano Spataro PASSAT 1:46.018 1.14110 7 Brian Smith PEUGEOT 407 1:46.204 1.32711 86 Agustín Canapino MERCEDES 1:46.249 1.37212 29 Gabriel Furlan MERCEDES 1:46.368 1.49113 78 Matías Rossi MERCEDES 1:46.387 1.51014 52 Gonzalo Perlo MONDEO 1:46.445 1.56815 69 Sergio Alaux MERCEDES 1:46.586 1.70916 110 Diego Aventín MONDEO 1:46.587 1.71017 911 Mariano Altuna MERCEDES 1:46.646 1.76918 44 Leonel Pernia MERCEDES 1:46.689 1.81219 16 Ivo Perabo PEUGEOT 407 1:47.036 2.15920 77 Juan Cruz Alvarez MERCEDES 1:47.173 2.29621 3 Rafael Morgenstern MERCEDES, 1:47.175 2.29822 91 José Passadore PEUGEOT 407 1:47.244 2.36723 666 Gustavo Tadei VECTRA 1:47.319 2.44224 27 Jaques Villeneuve MERCEDES 1:47.331 2.45425 25 Mariano Acebal PASSAT 1:47.342 2.46526 10 Nicolás Iglesias MERCEDES 1:47.365 2.48827 43 Martín Serrano MERCEDES 1:47.465 2.58828 58 Henry Martin MERCEDES 1:47.484 2.60729 42 Gastón Mazzacane MERCEDES 1:47.601 2.72430 39 Leandro Iglesias MERCEDES 1:47.623 2.74631 11 Ariel Pacho PASSAT 1:47.660 2.78332 5 Marcos Di Palma PASSAT 1:48.056 3.17933 81 Leandro Carducci MONDEO 1:48.205 3.32834 122 Esteban Piccinin MONDEO 1:48.397 3.52035 190 Laureano Campanera VECTRA 1:48.616 3.73936 90 Rubén Salerno MONDEO 1:48.806 3.92937 13 Alejandro González MERCEDES 1:49.315 4.43838 22 Edgardo Lavari MONDEO 1:49.526 4.64939 17 Joaquin Volpi MERCEDES 1:50.181 5.304 photo: René Fagnan - Auto123.com
Top Race: Jacques Villeneuve set the 24th fastest time in practice