Nico Müller tops Formula E rookie test with Marrakesh track record
Nico Müller gave the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team some cheer aft🌱er a difཧficult 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-P🌜rix, 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 gave the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team some cheer after a difficult Marrakesh Formula E race weekend by topping Sunday's ro🌺okie test with a new track record.
Afte🐠r 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 ove🐽rall 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 fie☂ld 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 𓆉track 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 E car, edging clear of Mercedes Formul💛a 3 protege Maximilian Günther in P3.
Ex-Formula 1 racer Paul di Resta was fourth-fastest in 🦩the sec💃ond Jaguar ahead of James Rossiter, who placed fifth for Techeetah in his latest official Formula E outing.
Daniel Juncade🐓lla took sixth for Mahindra ahead of Ferrari F1 junior Antonio Giovinazzi, who was closely followed by compatriot Andrea Caldarelli in eighth for Dragon.
Joel Eriksson wound up ninth for DS Virgin Racing, while Nyck de Vries bounced bac🌊k 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 Caldar𒀰elli in the morning when he crashed at Turn 1, cutting his openi🦄ng session short by two hours.
Bruno Spengler, Michael Benyahia and Mitsunori Takaboshi also 𒁃had 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 ཧreturns on February 3 with the Santiago E-Prix in Chile, round four of the 2017🦩/18 season.
