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Home News Orudzhev tops afternoon of first F3.5V8 test day, Hughes second
NewsWorld Series Formula V8 3.5

Orudzhev tops afternoon of first F3.5V8 test day, Hughes second

by Formula Scout
written by Formula Scout
Egor Orudzhev

Photo: Jean-Michel Le Meur / DPPI

Two-time 2015 race-winner Egor Orudzhev ended the first day of testing in the renamed Formula 3.5 V8 series at Jerez with the fastest time in the afternoon session.

The Russian driver set a time of 1m28.083s, falling short of Yu Kanamaru‘s morning benchmark by 14 thousandths of a second.

After completing the fewest laps of anybody in the morning at just 19, Orudzhev was the busiest driver in the afternoon, clocking 45 laps.

The Arden racer hit the front just inside the final half an hour of running, which was interrupted by a red flag following a second off for his SMP Racing stablemate Matevos Isaakyan.

After the restart, Strakka-run Formula Renault 2.0 graduate Jake Hughes came closest to toppling Orudzhev, ending up 0.143s down.

Series runner-up Matthieu Vaxiviere was third for the new Spirit of Race team, with Hughes’ 2015 team-mate and new Eurocup champion Jack Aitken (Fortec) pipping GP3 frontrunner Marvin Kirchhofer (AVF) to fourth by 0.002s.

Kanamaru was sixth ahead of Gustav Malja and Louis Deletraz, with George Russell and Alfonso Celis rounding out the top 10.

Afternoon session results
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Egor Orudzhev Arden Motorsport 1:28.083 45
2 Jake Hughes Strakka Racing 1:28.226 0.143 28
3 Matthieu Vaxiviere Spirit of Race 1:28.300 0.217 34
4 Jack Aitken Fortec Motorsports 1:28.438 0.355 26
5 Marvin Kirchhofer AVF 1:28.440 0.357 27
6 Yu Kanamaru Pons Racing 1:28.668 0.585 26
7 Gustav Malja Strakka Racing 1:28.872 0.789 30
8 Louis Deletraz Fortec Motorsports 1:28.952 0.869 30
9 George Russell Tech 1 Racing 1:29.088 1.005 35
10 Alfonso Celis AVF 1:29.561 1.478 24
11 Richard Gonda Lotus 1:29.589 1.506 21
12 Matevos Isaakyan Pons Racing 1:29.762 1.679 15
13 Aurelien Panis Tech 1 Racing 1:29.932 1.849 34
14 Jehan Daruvala Comtec Racing 1:29.988 1.905 32
15 Nikita Zlobin Carlin 1:30.022 1.939 24
16 Kevin Jorg Arden Motorsport 1:30.676 2.593 35
17 Vladimir Atoev Carlin 1:30.933 2.850 22
18 Mahaveer Raghunathan Comtec Racing 1:32.787 4.704 34