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Vasiliauskas tops wet Valencia practice

Kazim Vasiliauskas topped Friday's final Formula 2 free practice session at Valencia

The Lithuanian set the best time of the half hour in the first five minutes, just as the weather turned.

Rain persisted for the rest of the session so there were no improvements up front, but the changing conditions did make for some splits in strategy.

Championship leader Dean Stoneman stayed out pounding around on slicks as the circuit got wetter, while everyone else headed for the pits.

Most drivers emerged on wets, though Sergei Afanasiev, Stoneman, Benjamin Bailly, Armaan Ebrahim and series newcomer Ramon Pineiro kept their slicks on.

Stoneman and title challenger Jolyon Palmer ended up on track together with differing strategies. Palmer was initially faster on his wets before Stoneman began to pull clear on slicks - though the laptimes were by then 15 seconds shy of the dry pace.

Stoneman ended up second fastest, with Afanasiev third and Ivan Samarin, Will Bratt and Kelvin Snoeks completing the top six. Pineiro finished his first day in F2 in 10th.


Pos Driver                        Time       Gap   Laps
 1. Kazim Vasiliauskas            1m28.466s           6
 2. Dean Stoneman                 1m29.211s  +0.745  14
 3. Sergei Afanasiev              1m29.316s  +0.850  11
 4. Ivan Samarin                  1m29.409s  +0.943   6
 5. Will Bratt                    1m29.431s  +0.965  10
 6. Kelvin Snoeks                 1m29.513s  +1.047   8
 7. Nicola de Marco               1m29.592s  +1.126   5
 8. Benjamin Bailly               1m29.791s  +1.325  12
 9. Ricardo Teixeira              1m29.918s  +1.452   5
10. Ramon Pineiro                 1m29.980s  +1.514   8
11. Philipp Eng                   1m30.036s  +1.570   7
12. Jack Clarke                   1m30.657s  +2.191  11
13. Benjamin Lariche              1m30.695s  +2.229  10
14. Armaan Ebrahim                1m30.698s  +2.232   9
15. Natalia Kowalska              1m31.054s  +2.588   4
16. Johannes Theobald             1m31.151s  +2.685  12
17. Mihai Marinescu               1m31.403s  +2.937  14
18. Plamen Kralev                 1m32.260s  +3.794  10
19. Jolyon Palmer                 1m40.941s +12.475   9

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