Sochi F2: Latifi leads Sette Camara in practice

Williams Formula 1 junior Latifi headed his stablemate and McLaren test and development driver Sergio Sette Camara at a track where Red Bull Formula 1 driver Alex Albon and Latifi took a 1-2 finish last year.

Nyck de Vries is 59 points ahead of Latifi with Sochi and Abu Dhabi to go, and did his best to shadow the rapid DAMS by setting the third fastest time in practice, half a second adrift of Latifi. 

Luca Ghiotto took fourth for Virtuosi Racing, with Carlin’s Nobuharu Matsushita and Louis Deletraz rounding out the top six.

Jack Aitken had to take avoiding action when he encountered de Vries at Turn 1, launching over a kerb on the exit. The Renault driver recovered to seventh and was the last driver to lap within a second of Latifi.

Monza pole-sitter and Ferrari junior Callum Ilott took ninth ahead of his ex-GP3 teammate Nikita Mazepin, while another Ferrari junior, Mick Schumacher, rounded out the top 10.

Matevos Isaakyan was the top newcomer as he took over the car of the injured Juan Manuel Correa at the Sauber Junior Team, while his fellow Russian Artem Markelov - taking the Arden seat that had been occupied by the late Anthoine Hubert - was last, 4.3s off the pace.

Results:

Cla	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1'48.885
2	Sergio Sette Camara	DAMS	1'49.215	0.330
3	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1'49.410	0.525
4	Luca Ghiotto	UNI-Virtuosi	1'49.574	0.689
5	Nobuharu Matsushita	Carlin	1'49.587	0.702
6	Louis Deletraz	Carlin	1'49.775	0.890
7	Jack Aitken	Campos Racing	1'49.833	0.948
8	Callum Ilott	Charouz Racing System	1'50.011	1.126
9	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix	1'50.090	1.205
10	Mick Schumacher	Prema Powerteam	1'50.126	1.241
11	Jordan King	MP Motorsport	1'50.307	1.422
12	Ralph Boschung	Trident	1'50.481	1.596
13	Sean Gelael	Prema Powerteam	1'50.497	1.612
14	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1'50.652	1.767
15	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1'50.676	1.791
16	Matevos Isaakyan	Charouz Racing System	1'51.244	2.359
17	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	1'51.758	2.873
18	Marino Sato	Campos Racing	1'52.164	3.279
19	Mahaveer Raghunathan	MP Motorsport	1'52.988	4.103
20	Artem Markelov	Arden International	1'53.244	4.359
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