Jack Aitken Tops FP1 AT Monza For Racing Team Turkey
The first official track session at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza saw the #34 Racing Team Turkey Oreca-Gibson top the time sheets as the teams prepare for Sunday’s 4 Hours of Monza.
Jack Aitken posted a 1:38.690 around the 5.793km Monza circuit, nearly four tenths ahead of the #88 AF Corse Oreca, with the fastest time set by Nicklas Nielsen.
The #65 Panis Racing Oreca of Job Van Uitert was third quickest, just 0.02s ahead of the #22 United Autosports Oreca of Tom Gamble.
The top 10 cars were split by just over one second at the end of the 90-minute session.
Reigning LMP3 champions DKR Engineering were the quickest of the 13 cars in that class, with Sebastian Alvarez setting a 1:44.776 lap, just 0.084s ahead of the #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier of Nicolas Pino.
The #2 United Autosports Ligier of Finn Gehrsitz was third quickest with a 1:44.968, with the top 8 cars split by just over 0.9 seconds
The fastest car in the LMGTE category was the #18 Absolute Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19 of 2020 ELMS champion Alessio Picariello, the Belgian posting a 1:48.851 lap, outpacing the #77 Proton Competition Porsche of Lorenzo Ferrari by 0.271s.
The top Ferrari was the #60 Iron Lynx 488 GTE EVO of Davide Rigon, the Italian finishing the session third fastest, 0.409s behind the leading Porsche and 0.290s ahead of the #93 Proton Competition Porsche.
The second Free Practice session for the 4 Hours of Monza will take place at 09h00 on Saturday 2 July.
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