Vergne dominates day two at Aragon
Jean-Eric Vergne dominated proceedings on the second day of Formula Renault 3.5 testing at Motorland Aragon
The Frenchman, who had split his efforts between the Mofaz and SG Formula squads on Monday, this time had a full day of running for the latter team and set the pace in both the morning and afternoon sessions.
In all he completed 64 laps and set a best time of 1m43.230s - an impressive 1.6 seconds under the official lap record and four tenths of a second quicker than pace-setter Kevin Magnussen managed on day one.
"We managed a very good time this morning, with fresh rubber," said Vergne. We put new tyres on and just got better and better. Through the day, I think I was making much better use of new tyres.
"We didn't change anything on the car this afternoon, because the basic setup was very effective, and despite traffic, I still managed to get a quicker lap in. It shows the quality of the team and the car."
Greg Mansell was Vergne's closest challenger in both sessions, and the British driver ended up two tenths of a second slower. His team-mate and countryman Jon Lancaster was also a constant frontrunner and was third quickest.
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, was having his first run in a Formula Renault 3.5 car with Comtec and ended up fourth quickest - the Brit not phased by the morning session being delayed by an hour due to early morning fog, or by a damp track surface to begin with.
Last year's Macau Grand Prix winner Keisuke Kunimoto was sixth quickest for Epsilon Euskadi while P1's James Walker and Tech 1's Antonio Felix da Costa next up.
The test concludes on Thursday with Formula Renault Eurocup champion Albert Costa scheduled to have his first laps in a Dallara FR3.5 machine with Epsilon Euskadi.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Jean-Eric Vergne SG 1m43.230s 64 2. Greg Mansell Mofaz 1m43.529s 93 3. Jon Lancaster Mofaz 1m43.562s 84 4. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Comtec 1m43.567s 75 5. Keisuke Kunimoto Epsilon Euskadi 1m43.725s 59 6. James Walker P1 1m43.829s 56 7. Antonio Felix da Costa Tech 1 1m43.889s 82 8. Daniel Mancinelli Draco 1m44.027s 35 9. Filip Salaquarda RC 1m44.034s 65 10. Nelson Panciatici Pons 1m44.049s 74 11. Federico Leo Pons 1m44.065s 72 12. Sergey Afanasiev Carlin 1m44.150s 74 13. Roberto Merhi Carlin 1m44.221s 72 14. Anton Nebilitskiy Tech 1 1m44.306s 93 15. Walter Grubmuller Jr P1 1m44.356s 57 16. Guillaume Moreau SG 1m44.518s 30 17. Mihai Marinescu Interwetten 1m44.525s 85 18. Stephane Richelmi Draco 1m44.526s 80 19. Daniel Ricciardo Carlin 1m44.540s 9 20. Jake Rosenzweig Epsilon Euskadi 1m44.568s 57 21. Jan Charouz RC 1m45.153s 66 22. Pedro Petiz Interwetten 1m45.177s 71 23. Francesco Castellacci Prema 1m45.197s 81 24. Basil Shaaban Prema 1m45.706s 43 25. Adrian Campos Jr Draco 1m46.657s 40 26. Pierre Combot Comtec 1m46.967s 44
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