Ricciardo fastest in Jerez

Daniel Ricciardo, if he has not necessarily just won his place as third driver Red Bull, proved, in any case, that he was one of the best young drivers wishing to join the Formula 1. Member of the Red Bull Junior Team, the Australian continues to make constant progress. Winner of the Formula Renault 2.0 WEC (West European Cup) and second in the Eurocup FR 2.0 in 2008, champion of F3 British this season, Ricciardo will participate in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series championship next season, perhaps his final step before realizing every driver's dream, reaching Formula 1.

This Thursday, the Australian driver started very strongly, setting the best time (1:17:418) in the morning. In the second session of the day, it was Paul di Resta (Force India), who stood out, being the fastest driver after the Australian (1:18:736). Gary Paffett (McLaren), fastest driver on Wednesday, had the third time (1?18??746) this Thursday, ahead of Mike conway (Brawn GP) and Nico Hulkenberg (Williams).

Sixth, Bertrand Baguette (BMW-Sauber) set the best time (1:19:356) of the car d?Hinwil over all three days. In addition, the Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion keeps the best time behind the wheel of the Renault R29, Lucas di Grassi and Ho-Pin Tung did not improve it.

At Ferrari, the first three in Italian F3 (Pablo Sanchez Lopez, Daniel Zampieri and Marco Zipoli) did not manage to approach the times achieved over the last two days by Jules Bianchi.

If times are, a priori, not the priority for the teams, who came to Jerez with the aim of developing their horses for the next season, there is no doubt that the time sheets will be closely scrutinized. Some young drivers could see their future take a nice turn in the coming weeks.