Michael Belov Fastest from Mari Boya in Second Collective Test Session at Monza

After ending third fastest in the morning session at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Friday, Michael Belov hit top spot in the second session to conclude the running on the opening day of the 2022 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine season.

Belov, running a full campaign in 2022 with MP Motorsport after running only a partial campaign last year with G4 Racing, took top spot with a time of 1:46.509, which was two-tenths of a second faster than the quickest time in the earlier session.

After being well down the order in the first session, ART Grand Prix’s Mari Boya ended the day second fastest, 0.265 seconds back on Belov, while morning pace setter Paul Aron completed the top three for Prema Racing.

Proving that his pre-season pace was genuine, ART Grand Prix’s Gabriele Mini placed fourth after being only fifteenth in the morning, while Hadrien David, another driver hotly tipped to be a title contender this season, was fifth for R-ace GP.

Kas Haverkort was the best of the Van Amersfoort Racing drivers in sixth, just ahead of Arden Motorsport’s Joshua Dürksen, the Paraguayan the leading rookie in the session ahead of MP Motorsport’s Sami Meguetounif, who was eighth.

Dino Beganovic, who ended the morning session with the second quickest time, could not replicate the same kind of pace in the afternoon and finished down in ninth, while Dilano van ‘t Hoff made it a trio of MP Motorsport drivers inside the top ten by ending tenth ahead of Arden’s Edoardo Barrichello and Van Amersfoort Racing’s Joshua Dufek.

The field was back up to its scheduled thirty-seven cars on Friday afternoon as Emirates driver Hamda Al Qusaibi took to the track in the fourth Prema Racing entry having missed out on the morning’s running.  She was an encouraging nineteenth fastest, while fellow female racer Léna Bühler was thirty-third for R-ace GP in a field spread by just 2.861 seconds.

Autodromo Nazionale Monza Collective Test 2 Result

POS.	NO.	DRIVER	NAT	TEAM	TIME/GAP
1	30	Michael Belov		MP Motorsport	1:46.509
2	64	Mari Boya	ESP	ART Grand Prix	1:46.774
3	3	Paul Aron	EST	Prema Racing	1:46.787
4	46	Gabriele Mini	ITA	ART Grand Prix	1:46.805
5	26	Hadrien David	FRA	R-ace GP	1:47.034
6	27	Kas Haverkort	NED	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:47.092
7	10	Joshua Dürksen	PAR	Arden Motorsport	1:47.124
8	17	Sami Meguetounif	FRA	MP Motorsport	1:47.167
9	18	Dino Beganovic	SWE	Prema Racing	1:47.259
10	77	Dilano van ‘t Hoff	NED	MP Motorsport	1:47.330
11	91	Eduardo Barrichello	BRZ	Arden Motorsport	1:47.415
12	13	Joshua Dufek	CHE	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:47.459
13	19	Noel León	MEX	Arden Motorsport	1:47.496
14	42	Laurens van Hoepen	NED	ART Grand Prix	1:47.539
15	85	Gabriel Bortoleto	BRZ	R-ace GP	1:47.555
16	8	Matías Zagazeta	PER	G4 Racing	1:47.584
17	72	Leonardo Fornaroli	ITA	Trident	1:47.649
18	70	Tim Tramnitz	GER	Trident	1:47.660
19	88	Hamda Al Qusaibi	UAE	Prema Racing	1:47.681
20	16	Lorenzo Fluxá	ESP	R-ace GP	1:47.682
21	9	Esteban Masson	FRA	FA Racing	1:47.693
22	65	Keith Donegan	IRE	Race Performance Motorsport	1:47.747
23	4	Roman Bilinski	POL	Trident	1:47.780
24	5	Macéo Capietto	FRA	Monolite Racing	1:47.781
25	58	Sebastián Montoya	COL	Prema Racing	1:47.801
26	12	Victor Bernier	FRA	FA Racing	1:47.832
27	55	Pietro Delli Guanti	ITA	Race Performance Motorsport	1:47.901
28	6	Pietro Armanni	ITA	Monolite Racing	1:48.252
29	92	Owen Tangavelou	FRA	G4 Racing	1:48.265
30	24	Cenyu Han	CHN	Monolite Racing	1:48.284
31	21	Piotr Wiśnicki	POL	KIC Motorsport	1:48.338
32	35	Nicolás Baptiste	COL	FA Racing	1:48.537
33	15	Léna Bühler	CHE	R-ace GP	1:48.781
34	68	Santiago Ramos	MEX	KIC Motorsport	1:48.788
35	28	Francesco Braschi	ITA	KIC Motorsport	1:49.016
36	7	Axel Gnos	CHE	G4 Racing	1:49.125
37	11	Levente Révész	HUN	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:49.370