Dubai MRF Challenge: Newey dominates Thursday practice

The British driver showed his experience around the circuit, where he raced last year clocking the fastest time of 1m57.942s in FP2, the only driver to dip into the 1m57s.

While Toby Sowery ended up second in the both the sessions, the British driver is not a part of the season and is only driving as a test runner.

And so Felipe Drugovich took second in the two sessions, the Brazilian continuing his impressive show in the championship.

Behind, German F4 champion Joey Mawson finished third in the second session, after ending up fourth in the morning run.

Meanwhile, championship leader Mick Schumacher improved from sixth to fourth in the day, as Juri Vips dropped from third to ninth in the two sessions.

Dutchman Rinus van Kalmthout was fifth fastest in FP2 after ending up in ninth in FP1, while German Kimi Schramm enjoyed top five run in first practice and finishing 10th in second.

Brazil's Moraes "Pedro" Cardoso (seventh in both) and Japan's Yoshiaki Katayama (eighth in both) were the only remaining drivers to finish inside the top 10 in both the sessions.

Debutant Zane Goddard finished 10th and 13th, as returning Indian Parth Ghorpade ended up 15th and 14th respectively.

FP1 results:

Pos.	Driver	Laps	Time/Gap
1	Harrison Newey	12	1m58.231s
2	Felipe Drugovich	14	0.540s
3	Juri Vips	14	0.564s
4	Joey Mawson	14	0.607s
5	Kimi Schramm	14	1.038s
6	Mick Schumacher	13	1.128s
7	Moraes Cardoso	13	1.337s
8	Yoshiaki Katayama	13	1.530s
9	Rinus Van Kalmthout	11	1.547s
10	Zane Goddard	12	1.692s
11	Dylan Young	14	1.833s
12	Manuel Maldonado	13	3.037s
13	Pavan Ravishanker	13	3.681s
14	Bobby Eberle	14	4.796s
15	Parth Ghorpade	12	4.995s

FP2 results:

Pos.	Driver	Laps	Time/Gap
1	Harrison Newey	13	1m57.942s
2	Felipe Drugovich	11	0.731s
3	Joey Mawson	14	0.796s
4	Mick Schumacher	12	1.027s
5	Rinus Van Kalmthout	13	1.132s
6	Dylan Young	13	1.213s
7	Moraes Cardoso	12	1.224s
8	Yoshiaki Katayama	14	1.395s
9	Juri Vips	13	1.505s
10	Kimi Schramm	14	1.743s
11	Manuel Maldonado	15	1.936s
12	Pavan Ravishanker	14	2.348s
13	Zane Goddard	11	2.625s
14	Parth Ghorpade	14	3.641s
15	Bobby Eberle	14	4.029s