Hunter-Reay takes control in EL2

Published on 09/03/2018 à 22:02

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Interspersed by two red flags, one of which following a spin by debutant René Binder (Juncos Racing / Chevrolet), the second free practice session of the St Petersburg Grand Prix was dominated by Ryan Hunter-Reay . The American from Andretti Autosport (Honda) set a lap of 1'00"8295, which will remain the best time of the day.

This afternoon he was ahead of Canadian James Hinchcliffe (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports / Honda) by 0 seconds and Australian Will Power (Team Penske / Chevrolet) by 04 seconds. The top five is completed by Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing / Honda) and Josef Newgarden (Team Penske).

Second in the first session, Sébastien Bourdais (Dale Coyne Racing / Honda) finished eighth in the second (+0 »4), just behind Alexandre Red (Andretti Autosport / Honda) and Robert Wickens (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports / Honda), but ahead of Tony Kanaan (AJ Foyt Enterprises / Chevrolet) and Takuma Sato (RLL / Honda), who closes the top ten.

simon pagenaud, who returned to the stand with a car hit in the nose, finished thirteenth in this session.

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