Germany And France Top Free Practice At FIA Motorsport Games

The German squad led the way in the opening run thanks to a 2:02.885s lap from Fabian Schiller. The #20 Mercedes-AMG to the top of the times during the final quarter of the 80-minute session, confirming Germany’s status among the favourites to secure the gold medal. Schiller will be joined this weekend by co-driver Valentin Pierburg.

France led much of the session thanks to Simon Gachet, who will share the #81 Mercedes-AMG with regular co-driver Eric Debard. The local squad posted a 2:03.213s and, like Team Germany, can be counted as one of the top medal hopes.

The same is true of Team Poland, who placed third in free practice 1. Karol Basz was just 0.004s shy of Gachet in the #777 Audi that he will share with Marcin Jedliński. Switzerland was fourth with Dexter Müller driving its Mercedes-AMG, while Chinese Taipei completed the top five thanks to Evan Chen in his Ferrari.

The same cars ran towards the front in the afternoon session, though a flurry of lap time cancellations for track limits left a somewhart unclear picture at the chequered flag. Neverthless, France and Germany finished one-two and underlinded their credentials for the weekend ahead. Gachet posted a 2:02.752s, more than half a second better than Schiller’s best legal lap. Brazil moved to third thanks to Bruno Baptista in the #44 Mercedes-AMG, followed by Chinese Taipei and Puerto Rico.

A fast-paced programme will see qualifying get underway at 15:50 CEST before the opening qualifying race kicks off at 18:00. The latter will be broadcast live on the FIA Motorsport Games YouTube channel, launching the event’s full online coverage.

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