Drugovich and Viscaal fastest in F2’s final day of testing around Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya

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The morning session was tightly contested with the UNI-Virtuosi of Felipe Drugovich on top with the afternoon wide open and Bent Viscaal capitalising to claim the top spot.

Morning

UNI-Virtuosi were on top in the morning session of the final day of testing in Barcelona. The Brazillian’s lap time of 1:27.945 was the quickest time set during the three days and beat Oscar Piastri to first by over one and a half tenths.

Christian Lundgaard was close to two-tenths behind the Australian in third with the Dane over a tenth quicker than the quickest Hitech of Liam Lawson as the Kiwi finished the morning in fourth.

Lawson’s teammate, Juri Vips, was 11-thousandths behind in fifth with the top five separated by half a second. Theo Pourchaire was the slower ART in sixth ahead of Robert Shwartzman who was seven-thousandths slower than the Frenchman in seventh.

Bent Viscaal’s Trident made its way into the top 10 with eighth-fastest in the morning session narrowly ahead of Lirim Zendeli in ninth and Guanyu Zhou who rounded out the top 10.

The DAMS of Roy Nissany followed in 11th with the Israeli driver close to a tenth and a half slower than the Chinese driver ahead of him.

12th was claimed by the fastest driver of day two’s morning session, Richard Verschoor. The Dutchman was nearly a tenth slower than Nissany with Gianluca Petecof behind the MP Motorsport by one-thousandth.

Ralph Boschung followed in 14th with the Dan Ticktum a thousandth behind the Campos driver in 15th. Ticktum’s Carlin teammate, Jehan Daruvala, was next in 16th ahead of the second Trident of Marino Sato in 17th.

Marcus Armstrong was half a second slower than the Japanese driver with the Kiwi seven-hundredths ahead of David Beckmann with the two occupying 18th and 19th.

The German was ahead of Guilherme Samaia winning the Charouz battle in the morning with Alessio Deledda in 21st and Matteo Nannini rock bottom after not setting a time in the early part of the third day.

Afternoon

Bent Viscaal was the top dog in the afternoon with a 1:30.280 for the Trident driver sending him to the top of the timing charts ahead of HWA Racelab’s Matteo Nannini in second and his teammate Marino Sato in third.

The top three were separated by seven-tenths with the rest of the field a long way away. Alessio Deledda was fourth with the HWA Racelab nearly two seconds slower than his teammate Nannini.

The next two drivers were Marcus Armstrong and Lirim Zendeli in fifth and sixth with the duo a further second behind Deledda and close to three seconds slower than Viscaal’s fastest time.

Roy Nissany was seventh, five-hundredths faster than Robert Shwartzman in eighth with rookies Liam Lawson and Oscar Piastri rounding out the top 10.

Four seconds slower than the fastest time set was Theo Pourchaire down in 11th with the Frenchman two-tenths faster than Ralph Boschung in 12th.

Gianluca Petecof narrowly missed out on 12th alongside Richard Verschoor with Boschung, Petecof and the aforementioned Verschoor split by four-hundredths.

Jehan Daruvala and Felipe Drugovich were also closely matched down in 15th and 16th with the duo ahead of Juri Vips in 17th and Dan Ticktum in 18th.

Further down, Guanyu Zhou, Christian Lundgaard and Guilherme Samaia were about 4.8 seconds slower than Viscaal with last-placed David Beckmann over five seconds slower than the Trident.

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