Nico Müller tops Formula E rookie test with Marrakesh track record
Nico Müller gave the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team some cheer after a difficult Marrake🐷sh Formula E race weekend by topping Sunday's rookie test with a new track record.
After seeing the German manufacturer go w🍃ithout points in Saturday's E-Prix, Müller was able to complete an extensive run programme in his first taste of a Formula E car en rout𒊎e to the top of the overall timesheets.
Nico Müller♌ gave the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team some cheer after a difficult Marrakesh Formula E race weekend by topping Sunday's rookie test with a new track record.
After seeing the German manufacturer go without points in Saturday's E-Prix, Müller was able to complete an extensive run programme in his first taste of a Formula E car en route to the top of the ovඣerall timesheets.
Müller spent much of the afternoon flirting with the top of the order, but delivered an impressive l🌳ap of 1:19.651 in the final stages of the six-hour test to finish almost one second clear of the field on Sunday.
Müller's time would have been good enough for♒ pole position in Saturday's qualifying session against the regular Formula E field, and was one-tenth of a second faster than Daniel Abt's previous track record set in practice in the same ♛car.
World Series Formula V8 3.5 champion Pietro Fittipaldi finished second-fastest for Jaguar in his first outing in a Formula Eඣ car, edging clear of Mercedes Formula 3 protege Maximilian♋ Günther in P3.
Ex-Formula 1 racer P൩aul di Resta was fourth-fastest in the second Jaguar ahead of James ꦦRossiter, who placed fifth for Techeetah in his latest official Formula E outing.
Daniel Juncadella took sixth for Mahindra ahead of Ferrari F1 junior Antonio Giovinazzi, who was closely followed by compatriot Andrea Caldarelliꩲ in eighth for Dragon.
Joel Eriksso🥃n wound up ni🐷nth for DS Virgin Racing, while Nyck de Vries bounced back from a difficult morning marred by technical issues to complete the top 10 in the second Audi.
The day was interrupted by five red flag periods, the first caused by Calda🍎relli in the morning when he crashed at Turn 1ꦐ, cutting his opening session short by two hours.
Br🐲uno Spengler, Michael Benyahia and Mitsunori Takaboshi also had on-track stoppages that caused red flags, while a fifth was caused by a dog entering the track not long after Caldarelli's shunt.
Formula E returns on February 3 with the Santiago E💜-Prix in Chile, round four of the 2017/18 season.
