Emanuele Olivieri Quickest at FREC Free Practice 1 at the Hungaroring

Olivieri set the fastest time in the FREC FP1 at the Hungaroring for R-ace GP.

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The Italian driver set an overall best time of 1:38.146 in the first free practice with track temperatures at the Hungarian circuit exceeding 37℃. 

It was Alexander Abkhazava who took the second fastest time for MP Motorsport. Third was his teammate - Sebastian Wheldon. Rounding off the top 5 were Yuki Sano and Rashid Al-Dhaheri for the R-ace GP team.

1. Emanuele Olivieri, R-ace GP, 1:38.146 

2. Alexander Abkhazava, MP Motorsport, +0.085s 

3. Sebastian Wheldon, MP Motorsport, +0.185s

4. Yuki Sano, R-ace GP, +0.249s 

5. Rashid Al-Dhaheri, R-ace GP, +0.251s 

6. Alex Ninovic, Rodin Motorsport, +0.268s 

7. Reza Seewooruthun, Rodin Motorsport, +0.403s 

8. Dion Gowda, Van Amersfoort Racing, +0.450s 

9. Jan Przyrowski, RPM, +0.487s 

10. Kean Nakamura-Berta, Prema Racing, +0.498s

Over this session, the top-10 were covered by 0.498s but what will the results be in qualifying?

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