At the Circuit Ricardo Tormo the teams began work in October 2021-22, the last year with the Gen2, which will have an increased power of 20kW.
The only real red flag was called for a torn cone, while yellow flags were used for rare outages.
Both Mahindra of Alexander Sims and Oliver Rowland had problems on the track, stopping in the second sector, but managed to continue.
In the 4h30 ‘Frijns has centered the time of 1’26 “968 beating by 0” 173 Vergne, with Da Costa at 2 thousandths from his partner.
The benchmark time was eight seconds slower than the one set on the first day of testing last year, as the track was longer this time.
Fourth was Nick Cassidy in the other Envision Racing car, with André Lotterer’s Porsche completing the Top5.
Jean-Eric Vergne, DS Techeetah, DS E-Tense FE21
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Mitch Evans placed his Jaguar Racing in sixth position ahead of Jake Dennis (Andretti Autosport), Sébastien Buemi and Maximilian Guenther (Nissan e.dams).
Pascal Wehrlein’s second Porsche completes the afternoon’s Top 10.
In the morning Sam Bird (Jaguar Racing) had beaten Lucas di Grassi (Venturi).
As for the Mercedes, in the afternoon the Silver Arrows 02 did not go beyond the 1’30 “9, after they were in the top 10 in the morning.
Oliver Askew (Andretti United) finished 15th, followed by Sergio Sette Camara (Dragon Penske Autosport).
Newcomer Dan Ticktum was immediately the fastest of NIO 333, with Oliver Turvey 18th, while Antonio Giovinazzi set the 20th time with the other Dragon in the afternoon, however raising his pace from 1’28 “to 1 ’30 “.
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