Correa outpaces Schumacher in F2 testing

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Correa, whose best result in his first full GP3 season this year had been a fourth place, switched to Charouz Racing System for Friday's F2 running after testing with MP Motorsport on Thursday.

Schumacher, in action for the Prema team that has run him through Formula 4, F3 and has already announced him as part of its 2019 F2 line-up, inched ahead of experienced F2 driver Luca Ghiotto by 0.002 seconds to hit the front when the test resumed with 23 minutes remaining after a red flag.

But Correa was able to outpace Schumacher by two tenths of a second late on to end the day fastest.

Ghiotto ended up third ahead of fellow series regular Sergio Sette Camara, running with likely 2019 team DAMS, and Carlin's returnee Nobuharu Matsushita.

GP3 champion Anthoine Hubert had caused the late red flag in the evening with a spin but set the morning pace for MP.

Jack Aitken, in second for Charouz, was the only 2018 F2 driver in that session's top six.

GP3 trio Giuliano Alesi, Dorian Boccolacci and Leonardo Pulcini were third, fifth and sixth, with F3 convert Guan Yu Zhou fourth.

In the day's GP3 sessions series regular Niko Kari's morning time for Trident stood as fastest.

Jehan Daruvala was his closest rival in the morning and led the afternoon.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	J.M.Correa	Charouz Racing System	1'49.958		31
2	Mick Schumacher	Pertamina Prema Theodore Racing	1'50.166	0.208	25
3	Luca Ghiotto	RUSSIAN TIME	1'50.168	0.210	25
4	S.S.Câmara	DAMS	1'50.223	0.265	26
5	N.Matsushita	Carlin	1'50.227	0.269	23
6	Jack Aitken	Charouz Racing System	1'50.256	0.298	30
7	Louis Delétraz	Carlin	1'50.283	0.325	26
8	D.Boccolacci	MP Motorsport	1'50.394	0.436	23
9	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix	1'50.471	0.513	29
10	Callum Ilott	Trident	1'50.475	0.517	36
11	Guan Yu Zhou	RUSSIAN TIME	1'50.575	0.617	27
12	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1'50.582	0.624	31
13	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1'50.657	0.699	29
14	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Prema Theodore Racing	1'50.667	0.709	27
15	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1'50.673	0.715	30
16	L.Pulcini	Campos Vexatec Racing	1'50.685	0.727	23
17	S.Fernandez	Campos Vexatec Racing	1'51.253	1.295	12
18	Marino Sato	BWT Arden	1'51.539	1.581	29
19	Ralf Aron	BWT Arden	1'51.793	1.835	27
20	Anthoine Hubert	MP Motorsport	1'52.597	2.639	11