Soucek dominates Valencia testing
Andy Soucek dominated the final two days of Formula Renault 3.5 testing of 2008 at the Valencia circuit on Wednesday and Thursday
The Spanish driver, at the wheel of the RC Motorsport car, topped the times in both sessions as he worked on improving the handling of the machine following an invitation from the Italian squad to assist them during the test.
"I am very happy to be able to help out my friends at RC Motorsport," said Soucek, who raced in GP2 and GP2 Asia in 2008.
"We worked well on the car. It is certainly running well. The car is quick and fun to drive. It's perfect!"
Soucek finished ahead of compatriots Miguel Molina in the Prema car and Marco Barba in the Draco machine.
Another Spaniard, Jaime Alguersuari, was the quickest rookie in the Carlin Motorsport car. The British F3 champion was eighth quickest.
"I'm very happy because I had time to really get to know the car," he said. "Today I really learned how to use the set-up to my advantage and get the best out of the car. This is only my fourth day of testing in a FR 3.5. I think I've shown what I'm capable of.
"We'll see which programme Red Bull chooses," added the Spaniard, who is yet to find out where he will race next season following his F3 success.
Daniil Move and Charles Pic completed the top five as all teams wrapped up their testing programmes for the year.
The next session of collective testing will take place at Jerez in March.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Soucek RC Motorsport 1:21.701 2. Molina Prema Powerteam 1:21.741 + 0.040 3. Barba Inter. Draco R. 1:22.101 + 0.400 4. Move P1 Motorsport 1:22.120 + 0.419 5. Pic Tech1 Racing 1:22.178 + 0.477 6. Martinez Pons Racing 1:22.245 + 0.544 7. Walker P1 Motorsport 1:22.254 + 0.553 8. Alguersuari Carlin Motorsport 1:22.275 + 0.574 9. Coletti RC Motorsport 1:22.280 + 0.579 10. Piscopo Inter.Draco R. 1:22.640 + 0.939 11. Turvey Carlin Motorsport 1:22.661 + 0.960 12. Disabatino Epsilon Euskadi 1:22.689 + 0.988 13. Mortara Ultimate Signature 1:22.774 + 1.073 14. Rosensweig Epsilon Euskadi 1:22.796 + 1.095 15. Pentus Fortec Motorsport 1:22.886 + 1.185 16. Ebbesvik Fortec Motorsport 1:22.932 + 1.231 17. Hegewald Interwetten.Com 1:22.942 + 1.241 18. Chilton Red Devil T.Comtec 1:22.994 + 1.293 19. Gonzalez Tech1 Racing 1:23.083 + 1.382 20. Mansell Ultimate Signature 1:23.104 + 1.403 21. Cantelli Pons Racing 1:23.113 + 1.412 22. Leal Prema Powerteam 1:23.274 + 1.573 23. Nebylitski Red Devil T.Comtec 1:23.719 + 2.018 24. Leo RC Motorsport 1:23.801 + 2.100 25. Cunill KTR 1:23.826 + 2.125 26. Marinescu Interwetten.Com 1:24.138 + 2.437 27. Martin KTR 1:24.510 + 2.809
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