Sutil set the fastest lap time with an effort of 1:56.583 seconds in the first session in which he completed 19 laps.
In the second session he ran 29 laps and finished in the 12th position with a timing of 1:57.361.
His Italian team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi was seventh fastest in the first practice session after recording 1:57.194 and 14th in the second timing of 1:57.833.
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