ART Grand Prix’s Grégoire Saucy Concludes FRECA’s Barcelona Test On Top

Grégoire Saucy hit the top of the timesheets on the second day of the second Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Friday.

The ART Grand Prix driver set the best time of the whole test on Friday morning, his 1:40.208 just 0.056 seconds clear of day one pacesetter Patrik Pasma of KIC Motorsport. 

Six different teams filled the top six places, with Prema Powerteam’s Mercedes-Benz protégé Paul Aron ending the day third quickest behind Saucy and Pasma, with Arden’s Alex Quinn, R-ace GP’s Isack Hadjar and MP Motorsport’s Kas Haverkort all close behind – just 0.179 second separated the leading six!

William Alatalo ensured there were two Arden cars inside the top seven, while MP Motorsport ended with three cars inside the top nine, Franco Colapinto ending just ahead of team-mate Oliver Gøthe.  Van Amersfoort Racing completed the top ten with Francesco Pizzi.

R-ace GP’s Hadrien David, who had been fastest on both test days last week at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, missed out on a place inside the top ten on day two in Spain by finishing the day eleventh, just ahead of FA Racing’s Andrea Rosso and Prema Powerteam’s Dino Beganovic.

ART Grand Prix’s Thomas Ten Brinke was fourteenth, just 0.555 seconds behind team-mate Saucy, while Van Amersfoort Racing’s second representative, Lorenzo Fluxá, placed fifteenth ahead of Prema’s David Vidales and KIC Motorsport’s Elias Seppänen. 

The top twenty was rounded out by JD Motorsport’s Eduardo Barrichello, ART Grand Prix’s Gabriele Mini and R-ace GP’s Zane Maloney.

As on day one, G4 Racing’s Bélen Garcia brought up the rear of the field, while R-ace GP’s Léna Bühler was again absent through injury.

POS	Driver	NAT	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Grégoire Saucy	CHE	ART Grand Prix	1m40.208		71
2	Patrik Pasma	FIN	KIC Motorsport	1m40.264	+0.056s	51
3	Paul Aron	EST	Prema	1m40.324	+0.116s	64
4	Alex Quinn	GBR	Arden	1m40.368	+0.160s	43
5	Isack Hadjar	FRA	R-ace GP	1m40.371	+0.163s	52
6	Kas Haverkort	NED	MP Motorsport	1m40.387	+0.179s	58
7	William Alatalo	FIN	Arden	1m40.460	+0.252s	53
8	Franco Colapinto	ARG	MP Motorsport	1m40.502	+0.294s	62
9	Oliver Gøthe	DEN	MP Motorsport	1m40.524	+0.316s	62
10	Francesco Pizzi	ITA	Van Amersfoort Racing	1m40.539	+0.331s	56
11	Hadrien David	FRA	R-ace GP	1m40.650	+0.442s	58
12	Andrea Rosso	ITA	FA Racing	1m40.703	+0.495s	52
13	Dino Beganovic	SWE	Prema	1m40.751	+0.543s	68
14	Thomas ten Brinke	NED	ART Grand Prix	1m40.763	+0.555s	65
15	Lorenzo Fluxá	ESP	Van Amersfoort Racing	1m40.838	+0.630s	76
16	David Vidales	ESP	Prema	1m40.844	+0.636s	51
17	Elias Seppänen	FIN	KIC Motorsport	1m40.888	+0.680s	49
18	Eduardo Barrichello	BRZ	JD Motorsport	1m40.920	+0.712s	77
19	Gabriele Mini	ITA	ART Grand Prix	1m40.930	+0.722s	48
20	Zane Maloney	BAR	R-ace GP	1m40.932	+0.724s	60
21	Nicola Marinangeli	ITA	Arden	1m41.049	+0.841s	49
22	Mari Boya	ESP	FA Racing	1m41.285	+1.077s	52
23	Nico Göhler	GER	KIC Motorsport	1m41.504	+1.296s	44
24	Alexandre Bardinon	FRA	FA Racing	1m41.518	+1.310s	66
25	Gabriel Bortoleto	BRZ	DR Formula	1m41.603	+1.395s	65
26	Axel Gnos	CHE	G4 Racing	1m41.769	+1.561s	54
27	Pietro Delli Guanti	ITA	Monolite Racing	1m42.202	+1.994s	62
28	Emidio Pesce	ITA	DR Formula	1m42.273	+2.065s	66
29	Jasin Ferati	CHE	Monolite Racing	1m42.301	+2.093s	73
30	Brad Benavides	USA	DR Formula	1m42.359	+2.151s	49
31	Tommy Smith	AUS	JD Motorsport	1m42.471	+2.263s	72
32	Bélen Garcia	ESP	G4 Racing	1m43.172	+2.964s	71