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Home News Fantin fastest on final morning of FR3.5 testing at Jerez
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Fantin fastest on final morning of FR3.5 testing at Jerez

by Peter Allen
written by Peter Allen
Pietro Fantin

Photo: Florent Gooden/DPPI

Pietro Fantin claimed top spot during the morning session on the final day of Formula Renault 3.5 pre-season testing at Jerez.

With a time of 1m25.945s, the Draco driver was the only one to go below the 1m26s mark, but was only 0.061s quicker than Fortec’s Sergey Sirotkin.

Pierre Gasly took third for Arden with Marco Sorensen fourth for Tech 1 – both drivers also getting within a tenth of Fantin.

Nikolay Martsenko was fifth for Comtec, ahead of ex-DTM racer Roberto Merhi (Zeta). Lotus F1 junior Marlon Stockinger took P7, followed closely by day two pace-setter Oliver Rowland (Fortec),?Carlos Sainz (DAMS) and Monday’s quickest man Jazeman Jaafar (ISR).

The top ten were covered by just 0.274s, with less than half a second covering the top 16 of 21 runners.

Morning session results
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Pietro Fantin International Draco Racing 1:25.945 42
2 Sergey Sirotkin Fortec Motorsports 1:26.006 0.061 43
3 Pierre Gasly Arden Motorsport 1:26.017 0.072 24
4 Marco Sorensen Tech 1 Racing 1:26.031 0.086 24
5 Nikolay Martsenko Comtec Racing 1:26.129 0.184 28
6 Roberto Merhi Zeta Corse 1:26.163 0.218 25
7 Marlon Stockinger Lotus 1:26.185 0.240 39
8 Oliver Rowland Fortec Motorsports 1:26.189 0.244 19
9 Carlos Sainz DAMS 1:26.201 0.256 28
10 Jazeman Jaafar ISR 1:26.219 0.274 25
11 Norman Nato DAMS 1:26.223 0.278 19
12 Luca Ghiotto International Draco Racing 1:26.272 0.327 44
13 Matias Laine Strakka Racing 1:26.313 0.368 34
14 Matthieu Vaxiviere Lotus 1:26.401 0.456 47
15 Meindert van Buuren Pons Racing 1:26.410 0.465 20
16 Will Stevens Strakka Racing 1:26.416 0.471 21
17 Tio Ellinas Pons Racing 1:26.526 0.581 30
18 William Buller Arden Motorsport 1:26.755 0.810 17
19 Beitske Visser AVF 1:26.982 1.037 37
20 Zoel Amberg AVF 1:26.545 1.600 19
21 Roman Mavlanov Zeta Corse 1:26.618 1.673 26