Quaife-Hobbs fastest in Aragon test
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs continued his impressive adaption to Formula Renault 3.5 by topping both session's in today's opening collective test at Motorland Aragon
Having also shone in testing at Barcelona last week, the former GP3 racer continued his association with Comtec and recorded a benchmark lap of 1m43.055s this afternoon.
American ISR driver Alexander Rossi ended the day as the Briton's closest challenger, finishing 0.369s adrift of his former GP3 colleague.
P1 Motorsport's Brendon Hartley was third overall. The Kiwi was second in the morning on 1m43.681s, before finding two tenths in the second session.
Remaining in his regular 2010 seat, KMP Racing's Anton Nebylitskiy took fourth in both sessions.
The Russian headed Hartley's P1 Motorsport team-mate Walter Grubmuller and Federico Leo in the morning.
Italian Leo enjoyed a debut outing with ISR having competed with Pons Racing this year.
Compatriot and fellow Pons refugee Daniel Zampieri took fifth this afternoon with former champions Draco.
Pons, Junior Lotus and FHV Interwetten elected to sit out the test. Junior Lotus will return on Tuesday, when this season's Formula 3 and Formula Renault 2.0 champions will attend prize tests.
Today's times:
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Comtec Racing 1:43.055 2. Alexander Rossi Isr 1:43.424 3. Brendon Hartley P1 Motorsport 1:43.438 4. Anton Nebylitskiy Kmp Racing 1:43.765 5. Daniel Zampieri International Draco 1:43.799 6. Nathanael Berthon Tech 1 Racing 1:43.952 7. Walter Grubmuller P1 Motorsport 1:44.244 8. Stephane Richelmi Tech 1 Racing 1:44.251 9. Nelson Panciatici Kmp Racing 1:44.261 10. Federico Leo Isr 1:44.388 11. Sergio Canamasas Bvm Target 1:44.504 12. Fabio Onidi Fortec Motorsport 1:44.653 13. Dominic Storey International Draco 1:44.725 14. Daniel De Jong Comtec Racing 1:44.812 15. Zoel Amberg Bvm Target 1:44.817 16. Miki Monras Epsilon-Euskadi 1:44.859 17. Rio Haryanto Carlin 1:44.998 18. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin 1:45.122 19. Sergey Afanasiev Epsilon-Euskadi 1:45.371 20. Daniel Mckenzie Fortec Motorsport 1:50.022
Be part of the Autosport community
Join the conversationShare Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
Top Comments