Wilson fastest again at Snetterton on day two of GB4 pre-season testing

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

Arden’s Leon Wilson continued to set the pace on the second day of GB4 pre-season testing at Snetterton.

Wilson set a best lap of 1m48.522s in the fourth and final session of Thursday to eclipse his quickest time from Wednesday by 0.006 seconds. Isaac Phelps was again second fastest ahead of Alex Kattoulas and Aryaman Bansal, the Elite Motorsport trio split by 0.034s.

Kattoulas led for most of the opening session courtesy of a 1m49.147s lap, and was on top by 0.039s over Wilson when the chequered flag waved to end proceedings. Bansal edged Phelps and Douglas Motorsport’s Luke Hilton to third.

Hilton’s team-mate Dayton Coulthard set the benchmark laptime of session two – a 1m49.688s – and there was just 0.15s covering himself, Phelps, Kattoulas, Graham Brunton Racing’s Mayer Deonarine and Wilson.

Bansal was the first driver of the day to lap sub-1m49s in session three, posting a 1m48.851s with less than 10 minutes remaining to end up 0.403s clear of Deonarine, while an undisclosed driver was third for Douglas ahead of Coulthard and KMR Sport’s Megan Bruce.

Wilson lowered the pace to a 1m48.777s in session four, and then improved by a further 0.2s to secure his place at the top of the test’s overall timesheet. Phelps also improved in session four to end the days 0.295s shy of Wilson, as did Kattoulas, but neither improved on their personal bests from day one. Deonarine ended testing one place behind Bansal in fifth, the pair setting their best times in session three of Thursday.

Coulthard and Bruce’s session three efforts left them seventh and eighth overall, and Hilton improved in session four to be ninth, with just 0.004s separating the trio.  Fortec Motorsports’ Jack Taylor was 10th ahead of Velocity Racing Development’s Ava Dobson, and Taylor’s team-mate Luca Magnussen improved significantly from day one to end testing 1.4s shy of the pace in 12th.

Day two results