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 Marrakesh Formul♑a E race weekend b⛎y topping Sunday's rookie test with a new track record.
A🧔fter 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 overall timesheets.
Nico Müller ൩gave 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 F෴ormula E car en route to the top oꦚf the overall timesheets.
Müller spent much of the afternoon flirting with the top of the order, but delivered an impressive lap 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 on𝐆e-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 outi🤡ng in a Formula E car, edging clear of Merce൲des Formula 3 protege Maximilian Günther in P3.
Ex-Formula 1 racer Paul di Resta was fourth-fastest in the second Jaguar ahead of James Rossitཧer, 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 Caldarelli i🌜n eighth for Dragon.
Joel Eriksson wound up ninth forও 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 Caldarelli in the morning when he crashed at Turn 1, cutting his opening session short by two🉐 hours.
Bruno 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 Cal🀅darelli's shunt.
Formula E returns on February 3 with the Santiago E-Prix in Chile, round four༺ of the 2017/18ಞ season.
