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 MARTIN01:17.2
3IRELANDAdam CARROLL01:17.3
4GERMANYChristian VIETORIS01:17.4
5NEW ZEALANDBrendon HARTLEY01:17.5
6MEXICODavid GARZA01:17.7
7NETHERLANDSArie LUYENDYK01:17.8
8ITALYEdoardo PISCOPO01:17.9
9LEBANONChris ALAJAJIAN01:18.0
10USACharlie KIMBALL01:18.0
11SOUTH AFRICAWesleigh ORR01:18.4
12GREAT BRITAINJames WINSLOW01:18.4
13INDONESIASatrio HERMANTO01:18.8
14BRAZILClemente DE FARIA JR.01:19.0
15SWITZERLANDTom DILLMAN01:19.1
16MALAYSIAAaron LIM01:19.7
17PORTUGALFederico DUARTE01:21.3
18INDIAParthiva SURESHWAREN01:23.9
19CZECH REPUBLICJarek JANIS 01:31.8
Official Practice session 2
POS DRIVERA1 TEAM TIME
1Loic DUVALFRANCE01:15.5
2Adam CARROLLIRELAND01:15.8
3Neel JANISWITZERLAND01:15.9
4Christian VIETORISGERMANY01:16.0
5Jonathan SUMMERTONUSA01:16.0
6Robbie KERRGREAT BRITAIN01:16.0
7Robert WICKENSCANADA01:16.1
8Jonny REIDNEW ZEALAND01:16.1
9Jeroen BLEEKEMOLENNETHERLANDS01:16.2
10Adrian ZAUGGSOUTH AFRICA01:16.3
11Edoardo PISCOPOITALY01:16.4
12John MARTINAUSTRALIA01:16.5
13Sergio JIMENEZBRAZIL01:16.6
14Alex YOONGMALAYSIA01:16.6
15Narain KARTHIKEYANINDIA01:16.6
16Chris ALAJAJIANLEBANON01:16.8
17David GARZAMEXICO01:16.8
18Tomas ENGECZECH REPUBLIC01:17.0
19Joao URBANOPORTUGAL01:17.1
20Congfu CHENGCHINA01:17.3
21Adam KHANPAKISTAN01:17.7
22Satrio HERMANTOINDONESIA01:18.3
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 MARTIN01:17.2
3IRELANDAdam CARROLL01:17.3
4GERMANYChristian VIETORIS01:17.4
5NEW ZEALANDBrendon HARTLEY01:17.5
6MEXICODavid GARZA01:17.7
7NETHERLANDSArie LUYENDYK01:17.8
8ITALYEdoardo PISCOPO01:17.9
9LEBANONChris ALAJAJIAN01:18.0
10USACharlie KIMBALL01:18.0
11SOUTH AFRICAWesleigh ORR01:18.4
12GREAT BRITAINJames WINSLOW01:18.4
13INDONESIASatrio HERMANTO01:18.8
14BRAZILClemente DE FARIA JR.01:19.0
15SWITZERLANDTom DILLMAN01:19.1
16MALAYSIAAaron LIM01:19.7
17PORTUGALFederico DUARTE01:21.3
18INDIAParthiva SURESHWAREN01:23.9
19CZECH REPUBLICJarek JANIS 01:31.8
Official Practice session 2
POS DRIVERA1 TEAM TIME
1Loic DUVALFRANCE01:15.5
2Adam CARROLLIRELAND01:15.8
3Neel JANISWITZERLAND01:15.9
4Christian VIETORISGERMANY01:16.0
5Jonathan SUMMERTONUSA01:16.0
6Robbie KERRGREAT BRITAIN01:16.0
7Robert WICKENSCANADA01:16.1
8Jonny REIDNEW ZEALAND01:16.1
9Jeroen BLEEKEMOLENNETHERLANDS01:16.2
10Adrian ZAUGGSOUTH AFRICA01:16.3
11Edoardo PISCOPOITALY01:16.4
12John MARTINAUSTRALIA01:16.5
13Sergio JIMENEZBRAZIL01:16.6
14Alex YOONGMALAYSIA01:16.6
15Narain KARTHIKEYANINDIA01:16.6
16Chris ALAJAJIANLEBANON01:16.8
17David GARZAMEXICO01:16.8
18Tomas ENGECZECH REPUBLIC01:17.0
19Joao URBANOPORTUGAL01:17.1
20Congfu CHENGCHINA01:17.3
21Adam KHANPAKISTAN01:17.7
22Satrio HERMANTOINDONESIA01:18.3