The report from the second day of the pre-season testing ahead of the 2024 Formula Virtual World Championship. After a difficult opening day for Peugeot Westwood, their reserve driver Jochem van Snelheid set the pace on the second day, three tenths of a second clear of Yohan Dubois with both drivers on the softest tyre compound on a day where no less than ten teams ran the medium tyre. There were confident faces in the Porsche garage as the German manufacturer reinforced their pace from Day 1 with Felix Perez setting the third fastest time – almost three tenths clear of anyone else on the medium tyres. Lamborghini’s Enzo Domenicalli was their closest rival, seven tenths off the overall pace of van Snelheid. Behind them, five time World Champion Nathaniel Powers – on his return to Downton – went fifth fastest ahead of Kovalenko, Oleksandr Zozulya in the FIRST, Stew Alexander in the Lopez, James Thompson in the Phoenix and Maximilian Thunstrom in the Kowhai – all on the medium tyres and within one and a half tenths of each other. Henri Ruotsalainen impressed on his debut in a Formula Virtual car, the 2023 VWRS Champion lapping 1.1 seconds off the pace in his SRT, but on the hard tyres. Puccio Giodano, in the Ocelot, was just behind ‘Ruotsey’ but on the medium tyres – team boss Rai Miyamoto was quoted as saying “we are so bad” after the session. Jules Barclay, on his first outing for Cyber Automata, was a tenth shy of Giodano’s Ocelot, although the new team are taking plenty of confidence from being so close to the back of the midfield. Zack Drayton’s first taste of a Formula Virtual car, in the Maserati M110, saw the British driver almost two seconds off the pace – albeit on the hardest compound. McNair ARROW’s horrible pre-season test continued as Daniel Zientek crashed the car after just five laps, leaving the Pole almost five seconds off the quickest time of the day. Official classification below:
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