Lundgaard and Ticktum quickest in F2 Pre-Season testing Day Two

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Christian Lundgaard was the fastest driver in the morning session with Dan Ticktum quickest in the afternoon as Formula 2 finished its second day of Pre-Season testing ahead of the new 2021 season.

Morning

Christian Lundgaard was the quickest in the morning session. A time of 1:41.697 saw the Dane become the third driver in Pre-Season testing so far that has topped the timing charts.

Bent Viscaal launched his Trident car to second-fastest. The 21-year-old Dutch driver was over three-tenths slower than the ART driver but put a respectable time on the board which was a fantastic lap that put him only behind Lundgaard.

Marcus Armstrong was one-hundredth slower than the Dutchman and finished in third with the top nine split by nearly eight-tenths.

Liam Lawson was two-tenths slower than the Aussie in fourth, Robert Shwartzman was one-thousandth slower than the Hitech driver in fifth, Juri Vips was five-hundredths slower than the Prema and finished sixth with Theo Pourchaire seventh, Roy Nissany eighth and Oscar Piastri in ninth.

Marino Sato finished the morning in 10th and was over five-tenths slower than Piastri ahead of him in ninth. Dan Ticktum missed out on the top 10 by five-hundredths as the Brit ended the morning in 11th with Ralph Boschung in 12th and Carlin teammate Jehan Daruvala in 13th.

Day One afternoon session quickest man, David Beckmann, was only able to finish 14th but was the fastest Charouz in the morning.

Guanyu Zhou finished as the fastest UNI-Virtuosi in 15th as the two MP Motorsport’s of Lirim Zendeli and Richard Verschoor finished behind the Chinese driver in 16th and 17th respectively.

Guilherme Samaia finished in 18th with Gianluca Petecof in 19th. Felipe Drugovich had a torrid morning session finishing in 20th and only ahead of the two HWA Racelab cars of Matteo Nannini and Alessio Deledda who finished 21st and 22nd.

Afternoon

Ticktum was back on top of a second session as his lap time of 1:42.185 was over four-tenths quicker than Carlin teammate Daruvala in P2 and nearly a second quicker than third place Zhou.

On the final lap of his run, Samaia put his Charouz car in fourth after a lap time only 15 thousandths slower than the UNI-Virtuosi driver.

A massive improvement from Drugovich in the afternoon saw the Brazillian finish the second session of the day in fifth with a massive one second gap to sixth-placed Boschung.

Richard Verschoor and Gianluca Petecof were able to put their cars in the top 10 for the first time finishing seventh and eighth respectively.

David Beckmann ended the afternoon in ninth with Bent Viscaal rounding off the top 10. The top 10 drivers were separated by 2.6 seconds, the largest margin in Pre-Season testing so far.

Lirim Zendeli was 11th with morning session’s quickest man, Lundgaard in 12th. Pourchaire followed in 13th, Vips in 14th, Shwartzman in 15th and Armstrong in 16th.

Deledda lifted himself off the bottom as he finished 17th with the quick Lawson only finishing the afternoon in 18th.

Nissany was 19th, Sato in 20th, Prema’s Piastri in 21st and Nannini settled being the slowest driver of the afternoon session as he was over eight seconds slower than Ticktum who was the quickest driver.

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