Day two of pre-season testing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway saw the fifteen teams set lap times around the road circuit, with a session in the morning followed by another session in the afternoon. Sam Hudson set the pace in the morning session ahead of Dominykas Zvironas, Sebastian Bergkvist and Lewis Ellington who all lapped within a few hundredths of a second of each other. Marcus Thunder rounded out the top five for Downton. Felipe Cesar backed up his excellent performance on Day 1 with a solid sixth place on the road course for Maserati Cerberus, just ahead of Romano Agostino who enjoyed a good couple of days testing in the Lamborghini. Niklaus Holzberg, Ethan Matthews and Steven Kasami all put in solid performances for BMW Gray, OSM and Mercedes-K8ley respectively; three teams who were Q1 regulars last season but look to have made good progress coming into the 2022 season. 2021 eVirtual Champion Alexander McLaughlin could only manage eleventh fastest in his Mitsubishi but did suggest that the team had been focusing more on reliability than outright performance. Nikolai Milkovich and Rodolfo de la Fuente struggled slightly for Renault and Arrow, but not as much as Karl Beckenbauer. The German was not at all happy with the car and ended the session fourteenth, half a second off de la Fuente. Thunderhead’s Callum Brandon ended the morning session last after struggling with balance in the car. In the afternoon session, it was Carson Davenport who set the fastest time for Arrow, almost a second clear of Formation Competition’s Jochem van Snelheid and Downton’s Kip Maxwell. Sebastian Vocquelin and Kiara Thunder rounded out the top five ahead of Arden Hutchinson in the BMW Gray, who looked consistently strong throughout the whole weekend. Manziel’s Aron Einarsson was seventh ahead of Viktor Ostberg, Elmars Zarins, and Zander Brynildsen with another strong showing for SininenTuuli to complete the top ten; the Finnish team looking as equally well prepared as the other fourteen teams despite being a late addition to the entry list. Hector Draper was just under two tenths back from Brynildsen, putting his Mercedes-K8ley eleventh ahead of Diego Campos who struggled slightly in the Lamborghini. Leo Brzyski and Ryota Yoshida were thirteenth and fourteenth, both drivers having a difficult day where they struggled throughout the afternoon. However, neither struggled as much as Nicolas Steffensen; the Danish driver ended the day almost four and a half seconds off the pace after an electrical issue side-lined the Thunderhead driver for the first part of the session, losing time that Steffensen desperately needs as he adjusts to the step up to eVirtual.
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