Joseph Pepe Marti led the way on Day 2 of the FIA F2 test in Barcelona ahead of Victor Martins and Dennis Hauger.

MORNING

Juan Manuel Correa set the pace in the opening half hour of running on day two, improving on multiple laps to lower his best to a 1:26.214 early on. Campos’ Isack Hadjar was next to go to the top, bettering the DAMS Lucas Oil driver’s effort by 0.039s with 40 minutes run. Just before the end of the first hour, further improvements began to filter in with Trident going to the top on soft tyres. Roman Stanek led teammate Richard Verschoor with a 1:24.392, 0.3s ahead of the Dutch driver.

Verschoor found more speed to then go quickest with a 1:24.202 just prior to the first Red Flag of the day. Miyata was the driver stopped in the final sector between Turns 10 and 11, bringing a pause to the on-track action with just over half the morning segment remaining. The session was quickly back underway and Hadjar moved back up to P1, becoming the first into the 1:23s. Dennis Hauger got to within 0.003s of the Frenchman’s 1:23.881 to go second for MP Motorsport as multiple teams began to focus on soft tyre runs.

Zane Maloney lifted Rodin up to third position, 0.146s down on Hadjar’s fastest time with Zak O’Sullivan going fourth for ART Grand Prix, another 0.040s behind the Bajan. Martí then moved himself to the top of the timing screens, displacing his teammate by two-tenths of a second with a 1:23.681 with just under an hour and a half remaining.

With an hour to go, Martins improved his personal best to go back up to second in his ART, 0.160s shy of Martí’s time. Hauger was back out on track and moved himself to third, another 0.021s behind the Frenchman. The timing charts remained largely the same for the remainder of the morning, with no changes to the top five. Martí finished as the fastest from Martins, Hauger, Hadjar and Paul Aron. Having been fastest on the opening day, Bortoleto ended the morning of day two as the busiest driver of all, logging 71 laps for Invicta.

Position Driver Licence Team Time Laps
1 Josep María Martí ESP Campos Racing 1:23.681 27
2 Victor Martins FRA ART Grand Prix 1:23.841 52
3 Dennis Hauger NOR MP Motorsport 1:23.862 23
4 Isack Hadjar FRA Campos Racing 1:23.881 33
5 Paul Aron EST Hitech Pulse-Eight 1:23.940 39
6 Franco Colapinto ARG MP Motorsport 1:24.016 32
7 Zane Maloney BRB Rodin Motorsport 1:24.027 49
8 Zak O’Sullivan GBR ART Grand Prix 1:24.067 28
9 Richard Verschoor NLD Trident 1:24.202 40
10 Joshua Duerksen PRY PHM AIX Racing 1:24.242 47
11 Kush Maini IND Invicta Racing 1:24.284 54
12 Roman Stanek CZE Trident 1:24.392 39
13 Andrea Kimi Antonelli ITA PREMA Racing 1:24.510 21
14 Jak Crawford USA DAMS Lucas Oil 1:24.540 39
15 Amaury Cordeel BEL Hitech Pulse-Eight 1:24.782 39
16 Juan Manuel Correa USA DAMS Lucas Oil 1:24.851 40
17 Ritomo Miyata JPN Rodin Carlin 1:24.963 48
18 Taylor Barnard GBR PHM AIX Racing 1:25.053 47
19 Oliver Bearman GBR PREMA Racing 1:25.702 22
20 Enzo Fittipaldi BRA Van Amersfoort Racing 1:28.521 41
21 Gabriel Bortoleto BRA Invicta Racing 1:29.250 71
22 Rafael Villagómez MEX Van Amersfoort Racing 1:29.589 42

 

AFTERNOON

PREMA, ART and MP were on track right away to kick off the afternoon’s running, but Franco Colapinto’s session was put on pause with 10 minutes gone. The Argentinian driver came to a halt in Sector 2, bringing out the second Red Flag of the day. Teammate Hauger was the fastest driver in the early phases once running got back underway, 1:26.883 the time to beat with half an hour gone.

After a relatively quiet morning, Enzo Fittipaldi put Van Amersfoort Racing on top next, with his 1:26.807 just under a tenth quicker than Hauger’s earlier effort. With little over an hour to go on day two, Bortoleto went quickest, lowering the time to beat to a 1:26.573 in his Invicta. Teammate Kush Maini improved up to third with over 45 minutes left of the session, 0.257s down on the Brazilian’s time.

That was until the Rodin Motorsport pair bolted on softs to make it a one-two for the team. Miyata set a 1:24.878 for P1, 0.204s quicker than teammate Zane Maloney in second. Not long after, Bortoleto restored himself to second with a 1:25.067, splitting the two Rodins and just missing out on topping consecutive afternoon sessions. O’Sullivan proved to be the busiest driver of the afternoon segment, logging 68 laps in his #2 ART Grand Prix car.

Position Driver Licence Team Time Laps
1 Ritomo Miyata JPN Rodin Motorsport 1:24.878 33
2 Gabriel Bortoleto BRA Invicta Racing 1:25.014 26
3 Zane Maloney BRB Rodin Motorsport 1:25.082 26
4 Kush Maini IND Invicta Racing 1:25.084 47
5 Enzo Fittipaldi BRA Van Amersfoort Racing 1:25.712 28
6 Rafael Villagómez MEX Van Amersfoort Racing 1:26.013 33
7 Richard Verschoor NLD Trident 1:26.803 30
8 Dennis Hauger NOR MP Motorsport 1:26.883 58
9 Roman Stanek CZE Trident 1:27.262 23
10 Paul Aron EST Hitech Pulse-Eight 1:27.451 53
11 Amaury Cordeel BEL Hitech Pulse-Eight 1:27.840 51
12 Isack Hadjar FRA Campos Racing 1:27.904 46
13 Josep María Martí ESP Campos Racing 1:28.053 44
14 Joshua Duerksen PRY PHM AIX Racing 1:28.516 46
15 Franco Colapinto ARG MP Motorsport 1:29.252 37
16 Jak Crawford USA DAMS Lucas Oil 1:29.336 51
17 Juan Manuel Correa USA DAMS Lucas Oil 1:29.755 49
18 Oliver Bearman GBR PREMA Racing 1:29.857 37
19 Victor Martins FRA ART Grand Prix 1:30.093 52
20 Zak O’Sullivan GBR ART Grand Prix 1:30.400 68
21 Andrea Kimi Antonelli ITA PREMA Racing 1:30.615 38
22 Taylor Barnard GBR PHM AIX Racing 1:30.707 45

 

Here’s how Day 1 of F2 test panned out in Barcelona

[Note: The story is as per press release]

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