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Vaxiviere quickest on Tuesday morning at Aragon test

by Peter Allen
written by Peter Allen
Matthieu Vaxiviere

Photo: Lorenzo Charlez / ASM

Matthieu Vaxiviere maintained his strong Formula Renault 3.5 post-season testing pace at the start of day two at Motorland Aragon.

Returning to the cockpit at the Lotus team after skipping Monday, the Frenchman set a best time of 1m41.463s – the quickest lap of the week so far.

Pietro Fantin, another continuing with his regular team of Draco, was second quickest, 0.257s adrift.

Andrea Pizzitola was the best rookie in third after switching from Lotus to Tech 1, just ahead of Arden’s Egor Orudzhev. Beitske Visser was fifth ahead of Jazeman Jaafar, who has temporarily left DAMS down to one car while he spends a day with Fortec.

Nyck de Vries was seventh in that sole DAMS entry, ahead of Luca Ghiotto with Strakka, Oscar Tunjo at Pons and Dennis Olsen, also with Strakka.

European F3 frontrunner Lucas Auer was 12th quickest in his first run in an FR3.5 car with Arden.

Morning session results
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Matthieu Vaxiviere Lotus 1:41.463 31
2 Pietro Fantin International Draco Racing 1:41.720 0.257 50
3 Andrea Pizzitola Tech 1 Racing 1:42.098 0.635 37
4 Egor Orudzhev Arden Motorsport 1:42.123 0.660 51
5 Beitske Visser AVF 1:42.156 0.693 63
6 Jazeman Jaafar Fortec Motorsports 1:42.163 0.700 42
7 Nyck de Vries DAMS 1:42.192 0.729 52
8 Luca Ghiotto Strakka Racing 1:42.209 0.746 45
9 Oscar Tunjo Pons Racing 1:42.255 0.792 43
10 Dennis Olsen Strakka Racing 1:42.368 0.905 46
11 Bruno Bonifacio International Draco Racing 1:42.566 1.103 38
12 Lucas Auer Arden Motorsport 1:42.628 1.165 40
13 Luis Sa Silva Fortec Motorsports 1:42.750 1.287 33
14 Meindert van Buuren Comtec Racing 1:42.785 1.322 40
15 Nicholas Latifi Lotus 1:42.929 1.466 33
16 Sandy Stuvik Pons Racing 1:43.899 2.436 31
17 Vasily Romanov Zeta Corse 1:45.773 4.310 20
18 Alex Bosak AVF 1:46.541 5.078 35
19 Gustav Malja Zeta Corse 1:50.709 9.246 15
20 Guillaume Cunnington Tech 1 Racing 1:54.284 12.821 23