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Home Featured Lando Norris quickest in Paul Ricard F2 free practice

Lando Norris quickest in Paul Ricard F2 free practice

by Tim Lumb
Lando Norris

Photo: Zak Mauger / FIA Formula 2

Lando Norris set the fastest time for Carlin during the Formula 2 free practice session at Paul Ricard, as seven different teams took a spot in the top seven.

Norris goes into the fifth round of the 2018?F2 season with a 17 point gap to Russian Time’s Artem Markelov and DAMS’ Alex Albon in the drivers’ championship, although has only won one race so far this season.

Antonio Fuoco and Louis Deletraz were the first drivers to set a fast lap at the beginning of practice, but it was Norris that led for the majority of the session.

The practice session went by without any major incidents, although Markelov did miss much of it after running into an issue with his car.

ART’s George Russell, who is currently fourth in the overall drivers’ championship, was less than a tenth of a second behind Norris’ fastest lap in second.

Maximilian Gunther was not too far behind Russell with his lap time, which was good enough to keep third place. Prema’s Nyck De Vries was the final driver to get within five-tenths of Norris in fourth position.

Albon, who also had an issue at the beginning of the session which led him to crawl back to the pits, was able to get out again, going sixth fastest?overall.

Luca Ghiotto was the seventh driver from a different team in the top seven times of the session for Campos Racing, with his lap time 0.225s adrift of Albon.

Russell’s ART team-mate Jack Aitken was able to go eighth with his lap, while Ghiotto’s?team-mate Roy Nissany was ninth.

Even after missing most of the session, Markelov rounded off the top 10 with a 1m46.483s lap time.

Sergio Sette Camara was 12th overall in his first session since suffering a hand injury during qualifying in Monaco, which led him to miss both races.

 

Free practice results
Pos Driver Team Time
1 Lando Norris Carlin 1m45.562s
2 George Russell ART Grand Prix +0.083s
3 Maximilian Gunther Arden +0.138s
4 Nyck De Vries PREMA +0.226s
5 Louis Deletraz Charouz Racing System +0.543s
6 Alexander Albon DAMS +0.559s
7 Luca Ghiotto Campos Racing +0.784s
8 Jack Aitken ART Grand Prix +0.808s
9 Roy Nissany Campos Racing +0.861s
10 Artem Markelov Russian Time +0.921s
11 Antonio Fuoco Charouz Racing System +0.930s
12 Sergio Sette Camara Carlin +0.990s
13 Roberto Merhi MP Motorsport +1.097s
14 Santino Ferrucci Trident +1.105s
15 Sean Gelael PREMA +1.306s
16 Nicholas Latifi DAMS +1.347s
17 Ralph Boschung MP Motorsport +1.464s
18 Arjun Maini Trident +1.580s
19 Tadasuke Makino Russian Time +1.856s
20 Nirei Fukuzumi Arden +2.062s