Correct a day after the fifth round of the 2019/20 ABB FIA Formula E Championship took residing, the good rookie test seen a stout line-up of fresh expertise taking up the streets of Marrakesh, Morocco on 1 March. The one-day test started with a morning session from 10: 00 to 13: 00 and persisted within the afternoon from 14: 00 to 17: 00.
Enormous GT Championship driver Carve Cassidy location the quickest time of the day by posting a 1m16.467s at some stage within the afternoon session. The simplest other driver reaching a lap time below 1m17s modified into Sergio Sette Camara (GEOX DRAGON). The Brazilian FIA Formula 2 Championship driver ended up 2nd within the classification after lapping the circuit with a formidable 1m16.930s.
Filipe Albuquerque (DS TECHEETAH), who had location the quickest time coming into the final hour, modified into now now not ready to match the 2 entrance runners and had to proceed for third residing once the chequered flag modified into waved. His crew mate Nicolas Lapierre ended the day in fourth posting a 1m17.116s. The Frenchman had replaced James Rossiter at unhurried peep, because the crew’s trendy test driver stuffed in for the ill Jean-Eric Vergne at some stage within the necessary Free Put together session of the 2020 Marrakesh E-Prix and had therefore misplaced his rookie residing.
American Kyle Kirkwood grew to turn out to be the wheel for the BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT crew and left a correct impact posting his quickest lap time of 1m17.272s, which resulted in him claiming fifth within the mixed classification.
ROKiT Venturi Racing had confirmed the same rookie test line-up as in season 5. Arthur Leclerc – brother of Formula One driver Charles Leclerc – modified into once more joined by Norman Nato. Whereas the Monegasque carried out his day in 19th residing, the Frenchman modified into ready to retain on to sixth residing in his first time out with the Silver Arrow 01.
Separated by a hole of only 0.001s, Jake Hughes (Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team), who modified into recently confirmed for but another season within the FIA Formula 3 Championship followed in seventh. Kirkwood’s crew mate at BMW, DTM driver Lucas Auer, carried out the day in eighth residing.
The day’s running went moderately uninterrupted, with the one purple flag being caused when Kelvin van der Linde (Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler Formula E Team) spun his car in flip 12. Van der Linde had posted the quickest time within the necessary of the 2 three-hour sessions, but his morning benchmark modified into surpassed by a replacement of drivers within the afternoon leaving him in ninth residing on the mixed classification sheet.
Panasonic Jaguar Racing had lined-up Sacha Fenestraz, who final twelve months acquired the Jap Formula 3 Championship, alongside Jamie Chadwick. Fenestraz rounded out the tip ten, while Chadwick, who returned to Formula E making an strive out as winner of the inaugural W Collection ended the day in 13th.
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