Vandoorne leads Hungary GP2 practice
ByAutoSport
Updated 25/07/2014 at 11:53 GMT
McLaren protege Stoffel Vandoorne was fastest in practice for round seven of the GP2 Series at the Hungaroring, in a session that was overshadowed by an incident between series leader Jolyon Palmer and Johnny Cecotto Jr.
Stoffel Vandoorne 2013
Image credit: Eurosport
With the track temperature soaring to way over 50 degress Celsius, the best times were set relatively early.
ART's Vandoorne recorded his 1m29.479s on his third flying lap on the medium-compound tyre, which beat the Carlin machine of Felipe Nasr's 1m29.540s by 0.061s and would have put him 19th fastest in the earlier Formula 1 practice session.
But the big news was the collision between championship frontrunners Palmer and Cecotto.
Palmer was on an out-lap and keeping well out of the way at Turn 3 as Cecotto appeared to totally miss his braking point and slammed into the left-side of Palmer's car, flying into the air over Palmer's left-front wheel and damaging both of their cars.
After frantic repairs, Palmer rejoined the session for some exploratory laps, having earlier set the fourth-fastest time. His DAMS team-mate Stephane Richelmi was third quickest.
Silverstone and Hockenheim race winner Mitch Evans was fifth, ahead of Cecotto, who will need a good excuse to avoid a grid penalty on Saturday.
Kimiya Sato was seventh fastest on his return to Campos Racing, although his seat will be under threat from Alexander Rossi at the next round at Spa. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs was eighth quickest.
Recent pacesetting Racing Engineering duo Stefano Coletti and Raffaele Marciello struggled in the session, finishing it 19th and 20th respectively.
Elsewhere, Conor Daly stopped his Venezuela GP Lazarus car at Turn 8 with a mechanical issue.
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