The rain had been promised, it arrived.. and kept coming. It didn’t stop the drivers from trying to master the track, but with a Full Course Yellow, two Yellow Flags and two Red Flags, the track bit back.
Oliver Rowland was the talk of the pit lane again though, with a dominant performance in his Nissan that resulted in a solid 1m32.525s, two-thirds of a second ahead of Edoardo Mortara’s Mahindra on 1m33.212s. Rowland’s teammate Norman Nato came third with 1m33.488s, while NEOM McLaren’s Taylor Barnard dispelled any lingering doubts from yesterday’s crash to post a 1m33.566s that was good enough for fourth.
Mahindra did well in the wet, with Barnard only just pipping Nyck De Vries into…