This weekend of course takes place the first edition of the 8 Hours of Sepang, but also the Gulf 12 Hours on the Yas Marina circuit in the United Arab Emirates, in which Valentino Rossi is taking part in the company of his brother Luca Marini and "Uccio" on a Ferrari 488 GT3 from the Kessel Racing team.
This evening took place the first night free practice session, from 17 p.m. to 20 p.m. local time.
Barely out of his Mercedes F1 on the Valencia circuit, but taking part in his first “real” car race on a circuit since 2012 (the Monza Rally Show being a separate one), the doctor did rather well since it only took him three laps out of the twenty-nine he completed to achieve the 3rd best time of the session, in 2'10.452, 1,2 seconds behind the Lamborghini Huracan #77 of Barwell Motorsport.
Luca marini, not having done a real qualifying simulation due to the track temperature which was starting to drop, finished further back with a time of 2'13.724 while Alessio salucci proved to be the slowest of the trio, in 2'14.182 in a session disrupted at length by two first red flags caused by the exit of the Ferrari 488 n° 11 of Kriton Lentoudis then by the fuel shortage on the track. the #4 Optimum Motorsport Aston Martin GT15.
In Abu Dhabi, Loris Capirossi is also present.
The first official free practice sessions will begin on Friday December 13 at 09:15 (GMT +4), with qualifying at 17:00.
