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Euro F3 Monza: Felix Rosenqvist tops practice for Mucke Motorsport

Felix Rosenqvist topped free practice for the opening round of the Formula 3 European Championship at Monza on Friday

After languishing down the order in pre-season testing, The Swede was fifth in his Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes in the opening 40-minute session.

He then went fastest in the second - just 0.007 seconds ahead of Raffaele Marciello's Prema Powerteam Dallara-Mercedes.

The Mucke team confirmed that it had been concentrating on chasing development in testing, especially with lead drivers Rosenqvist and Pascal Wehrlein. But Rosenqvist, last year's Macau Grand Prix runner-up, was nevertheless relieved to find the pace.

"I wasn't really happy in testing because of balance problems," he said.

"But we worked really hard to solve everything. We did quite a lot of changes and it's worked out quite well. Now it seems that we can at least fight in the top five."

Marciello, who was fastest in the first session, beat Prema team-mate Alex Lynn into second, with Dennis van de Laar the surprise package, fourth in his Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara-Volkswagen.

The two sessions ran without major incident, although there was a red flag that prematurely terminated the first.

This was caused when Jordan King - second fastest in the opening period - suffered a fuel pick-up problem on his Carlin Dallara-VW and ground to a halt just before the pit entrance.

Combined practice times:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                    Time       Gap
 1.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc          1m45.243s
 2.  Raffaele Marciello   Prema Dallara-Merc          1m45.250s  + 0.007s
 3.  Alex Lynn            Prema Dallara-Merc          1m45.360s  + 0.117s
 4.  Dennis van de Laar   Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW   1m45.380s  + 0.137s
 5.  Sven Muller          Ma-con Dallara-VW           1m45.441s  + 0.198s
 6.  Eddie Cheever        Prema Dallara-Merc          1m45.483s  + 0.240s
 7.  Pascal Wehrlein      Mucke Dallara-Merc          1m45.492s  + 0.249s
 8.  Felix Serralles      Fortec Dallara-Merc         1m45.517s  + 0.274s
 9.  Tom Blomqvist        EuroIntern'l Dallara-Merc   1m45.576s  + 0.333s
10.  Will Buller          T-Sport Dallara-Nissan      1m45.583s  + 0.340s
11.  Lucas Auer           Prema Dallara-Merc          1m45.597s  + 0.354s
12.  Nicholas Latifi      Carlin Dallara-VW           1m45.651s  + 0.408s
13.  Jordan King          Carlin Dallara-VW           1m45.713s  + 0.470s
14.  Jann Mardenborough   Carlin Dallara-VW           1m45.868s  + 0.625s
15.  Harry Tincknell      Carlin Dallara-VW           1m45.878s  + 0.635s
16.  Pipo Derani          Fortec Dallara-Merc         1m45.894s  + 0.651s
17.  Antonio Giovinazzi   Double R Dallara-Merc       1m45.930s  + 0.687s
18.  Josh Hill            Fortec Dallara-Merc         1m46.051s  + 0.808s
19.  Mitchell Gilbert     Mucke Dallara-Merc          1m46.071s  + 0.828s
20.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc            1m46.326s  + 1.083s
21.  Spike Goddard        T-Sport Dallara-Nissan      1m46.388s  + 1.145s
22.  Mans Grenhagen       Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW   1m46.425s  + 1.182s
23.  Roy Nissany          Mucke Dallara-Merc          1m46.488s  + 1.245s
24.  Andre Rudersdorf     Ma-con Dallara-VW           1m46.545s  + 1.302s
25.  Sean Gelael          Double R Dallara-Merc       1m47.086s  + 1.843s
26.  Gary Thompson        Ferraris Dallara-Merc       1m47.499s  + 2.256s
27.  Sandro Zeller        Zeller Dallara-Merc         1m47.729s  + 2.486s
28.  Tatiana Calderon     Double R Dallara-Merc       1m47.754s  + 2.511s
29.  Dmitry Suranovich    Fortec Dallara-Merc         1m48.074s  + 2.831s
30.  Michela Cerruti      Ferraris Dallara-Merc       1m49.071s  + 3.828s

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