Stefano Coletti Ends Barcelona Test On Top
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On a rare dry day of testing at Barcelona, Stefano Coletti set the pace for the second time in three days.
Stoffel Vandoorne has enjoyed a successful winter so far. The reigning Formula Renault 2.0 Champion topped the timesheets at the opening test of the year in Aragon for Fortec Motorsports and was also signed up to Mclaren’s young driver programme.
Times from the final day of GP2 test in Barcelona
Times from the second day of GP2 pre-season testing at Barcelona
James Calado was the fastest man of the second day of testing in Barcelona as the rain continued to fall.
Time sheets for GP2 Pre-Season Testing 2013: Barcelona Day 1
Rapax’s Stefano Coletti topped the timesheets on the opening day of testing at a rain-hit Barcelona.
Sam Bird won the second Formula Renault 3.5 race at Silverstone after a late race puncture for Marco Sorensen. The day before the British driver was one of many caught out by a sudden downpour, ending his race in the early laps.
ISR driver Sam Bird is relishing the prospect of competing in front of his home crowd this weekend in the seventh round of the Formula Renault 3.5 championship at Silverstone.
Kevin Magnussen took victory in race two at Spa in appalling conditions took make it five different winners in the first five races.
The events of race one did not hinder the pace of Kevin Magnussen, who was undeterred in the wet conditions and made it two pole positions out of two in Spa.
A Dane was expected to win the first Formula Renault 3.5 race at Spa but not many would have anticipated the manner in which Marco Sorensen took his first victory in the season.
Kevin Magnussen took his first pole in Formula Renault 3.5 at Spa on Saturday morning. The Dane dueled with ISR’s Sam Bird for much of the session, and eventually out the Briton by seven hundredths of a second.
Sam Bird and Richie Stanaway were quickest in Friday’s free practice sessions at Spa.
Richie Stanaway has been ruled out for several weeks after suffering injury in race two of the Formula Renault 3.5 event at Spa.
It is easy to forget that Arthur Pic took pole position in the opening to races of the season at Motorland.
Lewis Williamson has endured a difficult opening to the 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 season and that continued despite crossing the line first in Sunday’s race at Spa.
