F.RENAULT 3.5 POST SEASON TEST – Busy Wednesday for AVF in Aragon

5 degrees of air/track temperature, three drivers, 147 laps. Those are just some numbers from the first day of running for AVF in Alcaniz, where the F.Renault 3.5 championship is holding the second post-season test. Wednesday was a very busy day indeed for the Spanish team managed by Adrian Valles, as they lined-up two rookies, Antonio Fuoco and Andrea Pizzitola, and a “nearly rookie” driver, Riccardo Agostini, who had enjoyed just a single F.Renault 3.5 outing in 2013 (in Spielberg).On a very cold and windy day the team successfully completed their daily programme, focusing not on raw performance but on giving their drivers as much track time as possible on a car that wasn’t too difficult to drive. Low track temperatures didn’t make life easier as they made the tarmac very slippery, but despite that the three young guns did a good job, improving their pace lap after lap and providing the technical staff some good feeback. Fuoco and Pizzitola shared the #28 car driving one session each, while Agostini drove both sessions on the #27 Dallara.Tomorrow, for the secon day of testing, AVF will run Pizzitola once again, while the other car will be driven by Will Buller. Adrian Valles (Team Principal): “We were very curious to see how these three young talents would have coped with the F.Renault 3.5 car, and we were pretty happy with the job they did. Fuoco’s performance was very positive, even more considering that he’s just 17. He lost more than one hour of track time due to a couple of spins, he could have been even quicker without that. Agostini did a good job too, but unluckily he had an engine issue in the last part of the afternoon session, and that prevented him from making the most of new rubber. He was losing 4 tenths on the straight alone, so we’ll have to look into that carefully with Zytek. Pizzitola will drive with us in the next two days, so today we didn’t use new tyres. He just focused on getting to know the car and its reactions, and trying to find a good pace on used rubber”.