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Tandy on top in the wet at Rockingham

Nick Tandy delivered an impressive and heartening message today at Rockingham, the JTR driver setting the fastest lap time in the day's final, damp test session to underline the team's pace and commitment just five days after the loss in a car accident of Nick's brother and team boss Joe Tandy.

Tandy's Mygale clocked a 1m 14.783s lap in the closing moments of the final session; he was the only driver in the session to break the 75-second mark for the 1.94-mile Northamptonshire circuit. The day's dry morning session - preparation for next weekend's fifth and sixth rounds of the British Formula 3 International Series - saw a new name at the top of the timesheets: Daisuke Nakajima.

Nakajima and his Raikkonen Robertson Racing Dallara-Mercedes made the best of the conditions to lap the speedway in a time of 1m 12.252s, a full tenth faster than any of his rivals could manage. Though comfortably inside the circuit lap record, Nakajima's time was more than a second shy of the testing mark set by championship leader Daniel Ricciardo in mid-March. 

Other notable pacesetters today included Spain's Victor Garcia, who outpaced his Fortec Motorsport team-mate Riki Christodoulou by half a second in the dry to emerge second fastest, and T-Sport's Wayne Boyd, who was fourth fastest on the day, ahead of his team-mate Adriano Buzaid by three-thousandths of a second.

The wettest of the afternoon's sessions saw Carlin driver Oliver Oakes on top, a hundredth quicker than Christodoulou, with Tandy third fastest. Gabriel Dias was the quickest of the three National Class runners in action in his T-Sport Dallara.

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