Red Bull Ring Auto GP: Shinya Michimi tops practice for Euronova
Euronova driver Shinya Michimi topped the times in free practice for this weekend's Red Bull Ring Auto GP round
The Japanese, who is making his second appearance of the season with the Italian team, ended up fastest in the solo 45-minute practice session on a 1m20.872s.
That put him 0.126 seconds ahead of team-mate and Auto GP points leader Kimiya Sato, who was ahead in the times until the final minutes of the session.
Sato subsequently had his best time of 1m20.998s deleted and ended up third in the times with his previous best of 1m21.176s.
Hungarian Tamas Pal Kiss, who has swapped to the British Virtuosi team for this weekend after starting the season with Zele Racing, moved up to second fastest as a result with his time of 1m21.004s.
The two Super Nova entries were fourth and fifth in the hands of series frontrunner Markus Pommer and Michela Cerruti, who scored her first victory in the series last time out at Imola.
Kevin Giovesi, who is tied for second in the points table with Pommer, took sixth place in his FMS Racing entry.
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1 Shinya Michimi Euronova 1m20.852s 2. Tamas Pal Kiss Virtuosi UK 1m21.004s +0.132s 3. Kimiya Sato Euronova 1m21.176s +0.324s 4 Markus Pommer Super Nova 1m21.241s +0.369s 5. Michela Cerruti Super Nova 1m21.505s +0.633s 6. Kevin Giovesi FMS 1m25.610s +0.738s 7. Andrea Roda Virtuosi UK 1m21.751s +0.879s 8. Christof von Grunigen Zele Racing 1m21.894s +1.022s 9. Giuseppe Cipriani Ibiza Racing 1m22.676s +1.704s 10. Michele La Rosa MLR 71/Euronova 1m23.065s +2.193s 11. Salvatore De Plano FMS Racing 1m28.436s +7.564s
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