Russell leads the FP1 in Red Bull Ring

George Russell has been fastest during the first free practices session of Formula Renault 2.0 ALPS in the Red Bull Ring. Alessio Rovera finished second followed by the wild card of Koiranen GP, Ignazio D’Agosto. The championship leader, Nyck de Vries, finished fourth.

 

First practice of the weekend, for the 24 drivers of Formula Renault 2.0 Alps in the very third round of the season, with Ignazio D’Agosto as a wild card of Koiranen GP. D’Agosto and his team mate has lead the first minutes of the session, but at the middle of that, Nyck de Vries was leading the field followed by D’Agosto, Leclerc, Isaakyan and Simon Gachet

Then Rovera has surprised everyone, leading in a strong way the field and improving his times every time but with 5 minutes to go, Russell improved his lap time and finished finally first.

Results:

Pos		Driver	Nation	Team	Gap
1	10	George Russell	GBR	Koiranen GP	0.1
2	32	Alessio Rovera	ITA	Cram Motorsport	0.2
3	68	Iganzio d’Agosto	ITA	Koiranen GP	0.3
4	19	Nyck de Vries	NED	Koiranen GP	0.3
5	25	Matevos Isaakyan	RUS	JD Motorsport	0.4
6	4	Hugo de Sadeleer	SUI	Tech 1 Racing	0.4
7	27	Dario Capitanio	ITA	BVM Racing	0.5
8	11	Denis Korneev	RUS	Jenzer Motorsport	0.5
9	17	Charles Leclerc	MC	Fortec Motorsports	0.5
10	3	Luke Chudleigh	CAN	Tech 1 Racing	0.5
11	12	Marek Böeckmann	GER	Jenzer Motorsport	0.5
12	5	Simon Gachet	FRA	Arta Engineering	0.6
13	29	Akash Nandy	MAL	Tech 1 Racing	0.7
14	45	Daniele Cazzaniga	ITA	GSK Grand Prix	0.7
15	63	Matteo Gonfiantini	ITA	Turchetto Stefano	0.7
16	6	James Allen	AUS	Arta Engineering	0.7
17	1	Alex Bosak	POL	Prema Powerteam	0.8
18	28	Semen Evstigneev	RUS	BVM Racing	1.0
19	16	Thiago Vivacqua	BRA	Fortec Motorsports	1.3
20	21	Philo Paz Patric Armand	RI	Tech 1 Racing	1.3
21	15	Martin Kodric	CRO	Fortec Motorsports	1.4
22	73	Pietro Peccenini	ITA	Peccenini Pietro	1.6
23	42	Danylo Pronenko	UKR	AS Motorsport Olimpija	1.6
24	14	Dennis Anoschin	RUS	Jenzer Motorsport	1.7