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Marco Wittmann fastest in chaotic practice in Macau

Signature's Marco Wittmann led the way during an incident-filled second free practice session for the Macau Grand Prix, as many of his nearest rivals ended up in the barriers

The German has been among the frontrunners all weekend and he completed another trouble-free session to end up 0.313 seconds ahead of closest challenger Roberto Merhi, as drivers were finally able to run on slick tyres with the morning's soaked track having dried out.

But Merhi, who already faces a 10-place grid penalty for tomorrow's qualification race, ended the session with a damaged car after running wide into the barriers at San Francisco Bend. His Prema team should be able to fix the damage for this afternoon's final qualifying session.

Merhi's team-mate Daniel Juncadella was third quickest - but he also ended up in the barriers at the end of the session, badly damaging his car and bringing out the third and final red flag of the shortened session.

Carlos Sainz Jr continued to do an impressive job on his Macau Formula 3 debut to end up fourth quickest for Signature, ahead of Carlin's Felipe Nasr.

Alexander Sims was battling for the top times through much of the session, but ended up sixth after also crashing out in his TOM'S Dallara.

Pos  Driver                  Team/Car                   Time       Gap
 1.  Marco Wittmann          Signature Dallara-VW       2m13.516s
 2.  Roberto Merhi           Prema Dallara-Merc         2m13.829s  + 0.313s
 3.  Daniel Juncadella       Prema Dallara-Merc         2m14.210s  + 0.694s
 4.  Carlos Sainz Jr         Signature Dallara-VW       2m14.281s  + 0.765s
 5.  Felipe Nasr             Carlin Dallara-VW          2m14.336s  + 0.820s
 6.  Alexander Sims          TOM'S Dallara-Toyota       2m14.707s  + 1.191s
 7.  Daniel Abt              Signature Dallara-VW       2m14.752s  + 1.236s
 8.  Valtteri Bottas         Double R Dallara-Merc      2m14.867s  + 1.351s
 9.  Carlos Huertas          Carlin Dallara-VW          2m15.171s  + 1.655s
10.  Kevin Magnussen         Carlin Dallara-VW          2m15.196s  + 1.680s
11.  Yuhi Sekiguchi          Mucke Dallara-Merc         2m15.197s  + 1.681s
12.  Carlos Munoz            Signature Dallara-VW       2m15.260s  + 1.744s
13.  William Buller          Fortec Dallara-Merc        2m15.282s  + 1.766s
14.  Felix Rosenqvist        Mucke Dallara-Merc         2m15.410s  + 1.894s
15.  Laurens Vanthoor        Signature Dallara-VW       2m15.631s  + 2.115s
16.  Hideki Yamauchi         Toda Dallara-Honda         2m15.725s  + 2.209s
17.  Jazeman Jaafar          Carlin Dallara-VW          2m15.733s  + 2.217s
18.  Lucas Foresti           Fortec Dallara-Merc        2m15.878s  + 2.362s
19.  Hywel Lloyd             Sino Vision Dallara-Merc   2m16.126s  + 2.610s
20.  Mitch Evans             Double R Dallara-Merc      2m16.128s  + 2.612s
21.  Pietro Fantin           Hitech Dallara-VW          2m16.658s  + 3.142s
22.  Hannes van Asseldonk    Hitech Dallara-VW          2m16.703s  + 3.187s
23.  Richie Stanaway         Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW  2m16.958s  + 3.442s
24.  Marko Asmer             Double R Dallara-Merc      2m16.996s  + 3.480s
25.  Kimiya Sato             Motopark Dallara-VW        2m17.014s  + 3.498s
26.  Richard Bradley         TOM'S Dallara-Toyota       2m17.442s  + 3.926s
27.  Adderly Fong            Sino Vision Dallara-Merc   2m18.744s  + 5.228s
28.  Jimmy Eriksson          Motopark Dallara-VW        2m18.828s  + 5.312s
29.  Hironobu Yasuda         Three Bond Dallara-Nissan  2m19.639s  + 6.123s
30.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Hitech Dallara-VW

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