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Dubai MRF Challenge: Newey dominates Thursday practice

Harrison Newey topped both the practice sessions in Round 2 of the MRF Challenge at Dubai Autodrome on Thursday.

Harrison Newey

Harrison Newey

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The British driver showed his experience around the circuit, where he raced last year clocking the fastest time of 1m57.942s in FP2, the only driver to dip into the 1m57s.

While Toby Sowery ended up second in the both the sessions, the British driver is not a part of the season and is only driving as a test runner.

And so Felipe Drugovich took second in the two sessions, the Brazilian continuing his impressive show in the championship.

Behind, German F4 champion Joey Mawson finished third in the second session, after ending up fourth in the morning run.

Meanwhile, championship leader Mick Schumacher improved from sixth to fourth in the day, as Juri Vips dropped from third to ninth in the two sessions.

Dutchman Rinus van Kalmthout was fifth fastest in FP2 after ending up in ninth in FP1, while German Kimi Schramm enjoyed top five run in first practice and finishing 10th in second.

Brazil's Moraes "Pedro" Cardoso (seventh in both) and Japan's Yoshiaki Katayama (eighth in both) were the only remaining drivers to finish inside the top 10 in both the sessions.

Debutant Zane Goddard finished 10th and 13th, as returning Indian Parth Ghorpade ended up 15th and 14th respectively.

FP1 results:

Pos.DriverLapsTime/Gap
1  Harrison Newey 12 1m58.231s
2  Felipe Drugovich 14 0.540s
3  Juri Vips 14 0.564s
4  Joey Mawson 14 0.607s
5  Kimi Schramm 14 1.038s
6  Mick Schumacher 13 1.128s
7  Moraes Cardoso 13 1.337s
8  Yoshiaki Katayama 13 1.530s
9  Rinus Van Kalmthout 11 1.547s
10  Zane Goddard 12 1.692s
11  Dylan Young 14 1.833s
12  Manuel Maldonado 13 3.037s
13  Pavan Ravishanker 13 3.681s
14  Bobby Eberle 14 4.796s
15  Parth Ghorpade 12 4.995s

FP2 results:

Pos.DriverLapsTime/Gap
1  Harrison Newey 13 1m57.942s
2  Felipe Drugovich 11 0.731s
3  Joey Mawson 14 0.796s
4  Mick Schumacher 12 1.027s
5  Rinus Van Kalmthout 13 1.132s
6  Dylan Young  13 1.213s
7  Moraes Cardoso 12 1.224s
8  Yoshiaki Katayama 14 1.395s
9  Juri Vips 13 1.505s
10  Kimi Schramm 14 1.743s
11  Manuel Maldonado 15 1.936s
12  Pavan Ravishanker 14 2.348s
13  Zane Goddard 11 2.625s
14  Parth Ghorpade 14 3.641s
15  Bobby Eberle 14 4.029s

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