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Chennai MRF Challenge: Schumacher tops Friday practice

Mick Schumacher clocked the fastest time across the two practice sessions at the Madras Motor Race Track in the season finale of the MRF Challenge.

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Mick Schumacher

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The German driver, who is trailing Joey Mawson by 38 points in the standings, lapped the Chennai circuit with a time of 1m30.861s in the second session of the day.

Harrison Newey, having topped the first session, ended up was second overall, 0.251s away from Schumacher, while Mawson finished third overall.

Both Newey and Mawson had off moments in FP2, joining the likes of Juri Vips, Manuel Maldonado, Yoshiaki Katayama, Neil Verhagen and Chia Wing Hoong - the latter also crashing in FP1.

Behind the leaders, Vips was fourth ahead of Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum on his MRF Challenge debut, with Felipe Drugovich ending up sixth.

The Top 10 was rounded off by Dylan Young, Verhagen, Ralf Aron and Katayama.

FP1 results:

Pos.DriverTime
1  Harrison Newey 1m31.799s
2  Mick Schumacher 1m31.813s
3  Joey Mawson 1m31.981s
4  Felipe Drugovich 1m32.391s
5  Dylan Young 1m32.398s
6  Juri Vips 1m32.544s
7  Dan Ticktum 1m32.975s
8  Ralf Aron 1m33.054s
9  Neil Verhagen 1m33.781s
10  Manuel Maldonado 1m34.720s
11  Presley Martono 1m35.333s
12  Pavan Ravishankar 1m35.766s
13  Yoshiaki Katayama 1m36.218s
14  Chia Wing Hoong 1m44.802s

FP2 results:

Pos.DriverTime
1  Mick Schumacher 1m30.861s
2  Harrison Newey 1m31.112s
3  Joey Mawson 1m31.226s
4  Juri Vips 1m31.238s
5  Dan Ticktum 1m31.760s
6  Felipe Drugovich 1m32.078
7  Dylan Young 1m32.205s
8  Neil Verhagen 1m32.498s
9  Ralf Aron 1m32.586s
10  Yoshiaki Katayama 1m32.983s
11  Presley Martono 1m33.222s
12  Manuel Maldonado 1m33.358s
13  Pavan Ravishankar 1m33.928s
14  Chia Wing Hoong 1m37.013s

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