The beautiful Talbot-Lago driven by Swiss Christian Traber posted the best time of the 1st free practice session for the Race A category, this morning, in 2 min 16 sec 311/1000, with only a half a second margin on the Frazer Nash with Patrick Blakeney-Edwards at the wheel and over three seconds on another British driver, Ewen Sergison, in his Maserati 6CM.