Maximilian Guenther went quickest as System E testing continued at Circuito del Jarama in Spain.
The DS Penske driver, who joined the crew within the low season, set a greatest time of 1m28.408s, with the entire high 10 within the afternoon lined by simply 0.389s. His greatest time got here within the closing hour of the second three-hour session, simply after a short crimson flag to restore harm to the curb at Flip 9. Full repairs to the affected portion of the monitor will likely be made tonight.
Kiro Race Co. continued to impress its year-old Porsche powertrains, Dan Ticktum going second quickest within the afternoon, and David Beckman fourth, the pair being cut up by Jean-Eric Vergne within the different DS Penske. Ticktum had gone fourth quickest within the morning session as nicely.
Nyck de Vries accomplished the highest 5 forward of Mahindra teammate Edoardo Mortara, with the 2 Jaguar TCS Racing vehicles of Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans ending their first day of working (after being banned from taking to the monitor on Tuesday due to a price cap infringement) seventh and tenth respectively. The pair had been cut up by Lola Yamaha Abt’s Zane Maloney and Andretti’s Jake Dennis within the highest-placed current-spec Porsche. Cassidy stopped out on monitor on the run to Flip 1 in direction of the tip of the morning session, together with his automotive needing to be recovered, however he had a trouble-free afternoon.
Nico Mueller ended the day eleventh general, forward of Oliver Rowland, one other driver getting his first style of official pre-season working after Nissan had been additionally sidelined by the identical cost-cap penalty as Jaguar yesterday.
Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa had been thirteenth and 14th respectively within the afternoon, having each featured within the top-10 within the morning, whereas Sebastien Buemi matched his morning efficiency by winding up fifteenth within the afternoon, one spot forward of his Envision Racing teammate Robin Frijns, who’d improved from seventeenth earlier within the day.
Norman Nato was seventeenth within the second Nissan, having completed on the backside of the timesheets within the first session of the day. He was forward of Lucas di Grassi and the NEOM McLaren duo of Taylor Barnard and Sam Chook. Chook had an off within the morning, bringing out the primary crimson flag of the day, after he went into the gravel at Flip 1 whereas shifting out of the way in which of a faster automotive whereas on chilly tires.
Maserati’s Jake Hughes topped the morning session however was twenty first within the afternoon having spent a lot of the session working in tandem with teammate Stoffel Vandoorne as they labored on race tempo and lengthy runs – subsequently neither Maseratis or the 2 McLarens ran on full energy within the afternoon. Vandoorne ended the day final, having gone fifth quickest earlier on.
