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Paul Ricard F2: Sette Camara beats de Vries in practice
McLaren Formula 1 junior Sergio Sette Camara delivered a late lap to set the fastest time in Formula 2 practice at Paul Ricard.
Jack Benyon
Edited: Jun 21, 2019, 12:10 PM
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ART Grand Prix’s Nyck de Vries, whose first Le Mans 24 Hours outing last weekend ended with a high-speed crash, topped most of the session as his benchmark time looked unassailable.
But with seven minutes to go, DAMS driver Sette Camara delivered a session-topping lap, a 1m44.506s, which he then improved to a 1m44.009s with two minutes remaining - marking the first session he has topped all season.
The Brazilian's late improvement left him exactly 0.6s clear of de Vries, while the latter's teammate Nikita Mazepin’s late-session spin ended a chance of de Vries decreasing the gap.
Luca Ghiotto of Virtuosi Racing took third, a further 0.060s back, while Ferrari junior and Prema Racing driver Mick Schumacher sealed fourth.
Schumacher's fellow Ferrari junior Callum Ilott delivered the fifth-fastest lap ahead of fellow rookie Guan Yu Zhou (Virtuosi).
Sean Gelael produced some flamboyant moments in his Prema-run car, but welded a strong lap together for seventh in the closing stages, ahead of points leader Nicholas Latifi (DAMS), who contested first F1 practice for Williams earlier in the morning.
Ralph Boschung, who only found out he was able to race for Trident this weekend on Thursday afternoon, took ninth ahead of Carlin's Nobuharu Matsushita.
Jordan King, back with MP Motorsport this weekend after missing last month's Monaco round while racing in the Indianapolis 500, was only 17th-fastest.
Session results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 5 Sergio Sette Camara
DAMS 1'44.009 2 4 Nyck de Vries
ART Grand Prix 1'44.609 0.600 3 8 Luca Ghiotto
UNI-Virtuosi 1'44.669 0.660 4 9 Mick Schumacher
Prema Powerteam 1'44.778 0.769 5 11 Callum Ilott
Charouz Racing System 1'44.829 0.820 6 7 Guanyu Zhou
UNI-Virtuosi 1'44.908 0.899 7 10 Sean Gelael
Prema Powerteam 1'45.037 1.028 8 6 Nicholas Latifi
DAMS 1'45.054 1.045 9 21 Ralph Boschung
Trident 1'45.112 1.103 10 2 Nobuharu Matsushita
Carlin 1'45.127 1.118 11 1 Louis Deletraz
Carlin 1'45.134 1.125 12 20 Giuliano Alesi
Trident 1'45.296 1.287 13 14 Dorian Boccolacci
Campos Racing 1'45.417 1.408 14 3 Nikita Mazepin
ART Grand Prix 1'45.499 1.490 15 15 Jack Aitken
Campos Racing 1'45.506 1.497 16 12 Juan Manuel Correa
Charouz Racing System 1'45.520 1.511 17 16 Jordan King
MP Motorsport 1'45.886 1.877 18 19 Anthoine Hubert
Arden International 1'46.043 2.034 19 18 Tatiana Calderon
Arden International 1'47.822 3.813 20 17 Mahaveer Raghunathan
MP Motorsport 1'51.923 7.914 View full results
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