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Rowland on top in final FR3.5 test session of 2014

by Peter Allen
Oliver Rowland

Photo: Lorenzo Charlez/ASM

Oliver Rowland ended 2014 in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series by topping the final afternoon of testing at Motorland Aragon.

The Briton, who won at the Spanish venue in April and again in last month’s season finale at Jerez, ended his sole day of post-season running with Fortec with a time of 1m40.764s after the chequered flag.

That was enough to beat DAMS tester Jazeman Jaafar by 0.056 seconds.

Matthieu Vaxiviere, who topped four of the ten test sessions across Jerez and Aragon, was third fastest, 0.02s faster than fellow Frenchman and Lotus driver Andrea Pizzitola.

Beitske Visser was fifth for AVF ahead of Arden’s Nicholas Latifi, whose morning benchmark remained the quickest time of the three-day Aragon test.

Egor Orudzhev was seventh in the second Fortec car, with Arden’s Lucas Auer eighth. Eurocup FR2.0 runner-up Dennis Olsen was ninth for Strakka, and Draco regular Pietro Fantin tenth.

Afternoon session results
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Oliver Rowland Fortec Motorsports 1:40.764 36
2 Jazeman Jaafar DAMS 1:40.820 0.056 33
3 Matthieu Vaxiviere Lotus 1:40.943 0.179 28
4 Andrea Pizzitola Lotus 1:40.963 0.199 31
5 Beitske Visser AVF 1:41.164 0.400 28
6 Nicholas Latifi Arden Motorsport 1:41.166 0.402 35
7 Egor Orudzhev Fortec Motorsports 1:41.180 0.416 36
8 Lucas Auer Arden Motorsport 1:41.223 0.459 38
9 Dennis Olsen Strakka Racing 1:41.248 0.484 47
10 Pietro Fantin International Draco Racing 1:41.277 0.513 29
11 Gustav Malja Zeta Corse 1:41.394 0.630 38
12 Nyck de Vries DAMS 1:41.402 0.638 36
13 Luca Ghiotto Strakka Racing 1:41.556 0.792 40
14 Oscar Tunjo Pons Racing 1:41.702 0.938 33
15 Meindert van Buuren Comtec Racing 1:41.922 1.158 38
16 Nelson Mason Pons Racing 1:42.078 1.314 32
17 Vasily Romanov Zeta Corse 1:42.095 1.331 46
18 Marvin Kirchhofer Comtec Racing 1:42.298 1.534 34
19 Bruno Bonifacio International Draco Racing 1:42.888 2.124 15
20 Alex Bosak AVF 1:42.902 2.138 28