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Barnard fastest in second Miami E-Prix practice
Taylor Barnard was quickest in second free practice for the Miami E-Prix, once again putting a British driver and American team at the top of the times.
The 40-minute session began 25 minutes after sunrise with the sun still low and temperatures cool, presenting not very representative conditions head of the race later today. For the race, rain is forecast within an hour of its 2:05pm ET start, and a wind advisory is in place from five minutes before lights out.
DS Penske driver Barnard went quickest with just over three minutes to go, bettering Nico Müller with a 55.531s. Citroen Racing’s Jean-Eric Vergne was another one to move up with a late lap, going second, 0.09s off Barnard’s best, relegating Porsche driver Müller – who along with Cupra Kiro driver Dan Ticktum completed the highest number of laps with 25 each – to third.
Pepe Marti was fourth quickest for Cupra Kiro, having enjoyed a brief spell at the top of the timesheets, while Norman Nato completed the top five for Nissan.
Antonio Felix da Costa was sixth for Jaguar TCS Racing, despite going quickest with 10 minutes to go and later having his best time of the session deleted for a track limits violation.
He was followed by Envision Racing’s Sebastein Buemi, Mahindra's Felipe Drugovich, and the Lola Yamaha Abt of Lucas di Grassi, who brought the session to a premature end after colliding with Jaguar's Mitch Evans at Turn 4.
Nevertheless, that made 10 teams in the top 10, with them covered by just 0.286, 1.58s covering the entire field.
First free practice pacesetter Ticktum ended the morning in 11th, ahead of Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein, Nick Cassidy (Citroen) and Nyck de Vries (Mahindra).
Jake Dennis wound up 15th in the second Andretti, with Evans, who did the fewest laps (20) 16th, Maximilian Guenther 17th for DS Penske, Zane Maloney 18th (Lola) and Joel Eriksson 19th (Envision).
Reigning champion Oliver Rowland had a torrid time in the session, battling oversteer and braking issues. That left him languishing in 20th and last place.
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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