Boschung tops final F2 session, Lundgaard fastest overall

The Swiss driver, sporting a special tribute livery on his car to Campos Racing’s recently deceased founder Adrian Campos, clocked a 1m44.095s time, which proved enough to end the session fastest.

Boschung emerged at the top of the timesheets at the end of the first hour having posted a 1m47.100s, before going on to lower the benchmark further in the final 10 minutes.

Teammate Gianluca Petecof and Williams Formula 1 test driver Roy Nissany (DAMS) fired in late efforts to slot into second and third respectively. Petecof’s personal best was 0.632s shy of Boschung.

While Boschung took the spoils in the final session of the there-day test, it was ART Grand Prix’s Christian Lundgaard who proved fastest overall.

The Dane’s 1m41.697s effort set midway through Tuesday’s morning session, during a qualifying run, was the time to beat for the rest of the field.

Lundgaard’s lap was only 0.218s shy of the pole position time set by Callum Ilott at last year’s championship round at the Sakhir circuit.

Race simulations were the order for the final three hour session with only a few drivers venturing out for late flying laps.

Prema Racing’s Robert Shwartzman was fourth fastest in the afternoon running although he was the first of a bunch of runners that elected against going for a late fast lap. His respective time logged during a race run was some 2.241s adrift of the pacesetter Boschung.

MP Motorsport's Lirim Zendeli ended up fifth ahead of the second Prema of FIA Formula 3 champion Oscar Piastri.

Liam Lawson (Hitech Grand Prix) spent the first half of the session in the pits before going on to post a time good enough for seventh.

Fellow FIA F3 graduates Theo Pourchaire (ART Grand Prix) and Richard Verschoor (MP Motorsport) were eighth and ninth, while Charouz Racing’s Guilherme Samaia rounded out the top 10.

This morning's pacesetter Marcus Armstrong (DAMS) was 11th fastest, while Lundgaard, who topped the times overall, was down in 18th position.

The teams will return to the circuit for the F2 championship season opener at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 26-28 March.

Results:

Pos	Time	Laps	Driver	Team
1	1'44.905	59	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing
2	1'45.537	55	Gianluca Petecof	Campos Racing
3	1'46.104	60	Roy Nissany	DAMS
4	1'47.146	53	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Racing
5	1'47.307	60	Lirim Zendeli	MP Motorsport
6	1'47.326	53	Oscar Piastri	Prema Racing
7	1'47.409	39	Liam Lawson	Hitech Grand Prix
8	1'47.426	42	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix
9	1'47.598	57	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport
10	1'47.698	43	Guilherme Samaia	Charouz Racing System
11	1'47.891	61	Marcus Armstrong	DAMS
12	1'47.893	39	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab
13	1'47.965	64	Dan Ticktum	Carlin
14	1'48.128	61	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin
15	1'48.332	39	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix
16	1'48.446	50	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi
17	1'48.456	36	Alessio Deledda	HWA Racelab
18	1'48.487	41	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix
19	1'48.613	43	Felipe Drugovich	UNI-Virtuosi
20	1'48.630	41	Bent Viscaal	Trident
21	1'48.926	31	Marino Sato	Trident
22	1'50.048	33	David Beckmann	Charouz Racing System

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Series	FIA F2
Event	Bahrain March testing
Author	Tom Howard

Boschung tops final F2 session, Lundgaard fastest overall

Campos Racing’s Ralph Boschung topped the final session of the FIA Formula 2 Championship pre-season test in Bahrain.

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