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Rowland and Jaafar complete Fortec 1-2 in Monaco practice

by Gruz David
Photo: Lorenzo Charlez / AS Media

Photo: Lorenzo Charlez / AS Media

Championship leader Oliver Rowland ended the free practice session of Formula Renault 3.5’s Monaco round?as the fastest driver.

While it was his teammate Jazeman Jaafar and Carlin’s Tom Dillmann who took the early initiative, a red flag caused by Sean Gelael?coming to a halt?in the tunnel stopped the clock half-way through.

And times started to rapidly drop after the restart with Rowland ending up fastest, less than a tenth ahead of Jaafar.

Matthieu Vaxiviere, who trails Rowland by three points in the standings, was almost half a second down on the Fortec duo as best of the rest, followed by Strakka’s Tio Ellinas.

Dillmann ended up fifth, followed by Brazilian Pietro Fantin and the Dutch duo of?Meindert van Buuren and Nyck de Vries, the latter finishing as the top rookie of the session.

Arden’s Nicholas Latifi and Red Bull protege Dean Stoneman completed the top ten.

Session results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Oliver Rowland Fortec Motorsports 1:24.171 24
2 Jazeman Jaafar Fortec Motorsports 1:24.259 0.088 22
3 Matthieu Vaxiviere Lotus 1:24.667 0.496 23
4 Tio Ellinas Strakka Racing 1:24.824 0.653 25
5 Tom Dillmann Jagonya Ayam with Carlin 1:25.199 1.028 22
6 Pietro Fantin International Draco Racing 1:25.225 1.054 21
7 Meindert van Buuren Lotus 1:25.525 1.354 23
8 Nyck de Vries DAMS 1:25.692 1.521 23
9 Nicholas Latifi Arden Motorsport 1:25.791 1.620 21
10 Dean Stoneman DAMS 1:25.850 1.679 23
11 Gustav Malja Strakka Racing 1:25.865 1.694 25
12 Egor Orudzhev Arden Motorsport 1:26.067 1.896 22
13 Aurelien Panis Tech 1 Racing 1:26.600 2.429 22
14 Alfonso Celis AVF 1:26.698 2.527 20
15 Bruno Bonif?cio International Draco Racing 1:26.752 2.581 22
16 Roy Nissany Tech 1 Racing 1:26.859 2.688 21
17 Beitske Visser AVF 1:27.095 2.924 21
18 Patric Armand Pons Racing 1:27.601 3.430 22
19 Alex Fontana Pons Racing 1:27.982 3.811 21
20 Sean Gelael Jagonya Ayam with Carlin 1:33.332 9.161 7