The Belgian continued to improve in the afternoon after an excellent start, achieving a 1’26 “045 at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, lowering the time set yesterday by Robin Frijns by 0” 9.
Mortara took full advantage of the 250kW of the new ‘attack mode’ placing himself at 0 “044 from the Mercedes standard bearer with his Venturi (which is powered by the same powertrain).
Third time for Jake Dennis (Andretti Autosport), just 0 “011 from the Swiss, on a day where reliability problems were few.
The only red flag came when Jean-Eric Vergne spun; the Frenchman was able to continue, but the stewards had to remove the gravel brought to the track.
Edoardo Mortara, Venturi Racing, Silver Arrow 02
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Reigning champion Nyck De Vries was fourth fastest, but also consistently among the first, followed by Pascal Wehrlein’s Porsche and Mitch Evans’ Jaguar, as well as the second Venturi entrusted to Lucas di Grassi.
André Lotterer, who had a very good start, slips 10th along the way, with Antonio Felix da Costa – the fastest in the morning stint – who did not go beyond a 1’30 “488 in the afternoon, even though the Portuguese completed the most number of laps (52 total), or 5 more than Vergne.
11th Oliver Askew with Andretti Autosport, while his fellow rookies – Antonio Giovinazzi and Dan Ticktum – obtained 17th and 19th place respectively.
The Apulian also received a 15-minute stop penalty for exceeding the track limits, while Ticktum and Dennis were given 5 ‘after repeated yellow cards.
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