Miyata leads afternoon filled with race runs on day two of F2 testing

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Rodin Motorsport’s Ritomo Miyata topped the times in a slower afternoon session on day two of Formula 2’s in-season testing at Barcelona.

Track temperature was higher than in the morning session, but still far from what is expected in June when the championship will race at the circuit. The session was mainly devoted to race runs as well as testing different set-up configurations, with only four drivers doing a qualifying simulation.

The red flag was waved 15 minutes into the session as Franco Colapinto ran off-the-track at turn seven. His car was recovered and returned to the pit-lane without any visible damage, and was out on track again in the last hour to end the session with 37 laps on the board.

Hitech GP, Campos Racing and Trident went out on track early once green flag conditions returned to complete race simulations. Other teams followed later on.

Van Amersfoort Racing’s Enzo Fittipaldi led the charts for most of the session with a laptime of 1m26.807s, which he lowered to 1m25.719s in the last hour to be fifth fastest in the end.

With two new sets of the soft compound remaining, Rodin and Invicta racing sent their drivers out on track for a full qualifying simulation with over half-an-hour remaining.

Miyata was fastest followed by Maloney, with Invicta’s Gabriel Bortoleto slotting in-between them at the end of the first run.

Only the McLaren F1 junior was able to improve his laptime on the second run. He did so by tiny 0.053 seconds, which was not enough to beat Miyata’s benchmark.

Afternoon session results