Qualifying report
FIA F3 Spielberg
Austria F3: Hauger on pole after Collet laptime deleted
Dennis Hauger snatched pole position from Caio Collet after a tense FIA Formula 3 qualifying session in Austria, as the Alpine junior driver had his best quickest lap deleted.
Megan White
Edited: Jul 3, 2021, 4:40 AM
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MP Motorsport driver Collet was found to have exceeded track limits at Turn 10, which promotes championship leader Hauger to top spot for Sunday's feature race.
Frederik Vesti (ART Grand Prix) moves to second as a result, just 0.028s behind Prema driver Hauger, with Vesti's teammate Alexander Smolyar third.
The top 12 is reversed for tomorrow’s sprint race, which puts Logan Sargeant (Charouz) on pole for that race. Matteo Nannini (HWA Racelab) will start in second, with MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins in third.
The session at the Red Bull Ring was marred by heavy traffic that ruined many drivers’ laps. There will be an investigation after drivers were weaving on track, as well as slowing between Turn 9 and Turn 10.
Clement Novalak (Trident) was out on track first, leading the 30-car procession onto the circuit.
There were several near-misses as the whole field crammed into the short circuit, bunching up on the warm-up lap in an attempt to create a gap for a clean lap and warm the tyres.
Hitech Grand Prix driver Roman Stanek was the first to set a representative fast lap, with a 1m21.082, before being quickly beaten by a succession of other drivers.
As the times tumbled, Vesti topped the timesheet, setting a 1m20.153 – just four-hundredths ahead of second placed Sargeant.
By the halfway mark, the top 22 times were within seven-tenths of each other, before drivers dived into the pits for fresh tyres and another chance at a quicker time.
As they exited the pitlane, Enzo Fittipaldi made contact with another car, with the Charouz driver under investigation for an unsafe release.
The session was then red-flagged after Carlin driver Ido Cohen - one of many who had been shown the black and white flag for breaching track limits - stopped on the side of the track near the start-finish line, before restarting several minutes later.
With just three minutes to go, the times began tumbling, with several drivers swapping places to take the lead.
Qualifying results (before Collet's lap deletion)
Cla Driver Team Time Gap 1 Dennis Hauger
Prema Powerteam 1'19.726 2
Frederik Vesti
ART Grand Prix 1'19.754 0.028 3
Alexander Smolyar
ART Grand Prix 1'19.801 0.075 4 Caio Collet
MP Motorsport 1'19.809 0.083 5 Jak Crawford
HitechGP 1'19.817 0.091 6
Clement Novalak
Trident 1'19.829 0.103 7
Jack Doohan
Trident 1'19.887 0.161 8
Olli Caldwell
Prema Powerteam 1'19.900 0.174 9 Arthur Leclerc
Prema Powerteam 1'19.975 0.249 10
Victor Martins
MP Motorsport 1'20.003 0.277 11
Matteo Nannini
HWA AG 1'20.070 0.344 12
Logan Sargeant
Charouz Racing System 1'20.101 0.375 13
Calan Williams
Jenzer Motorsport 1'20.112 0.386 14
David Schumacher
Trident 1'20.148 0.422 15
Enzo Fittipaldi
Charouz Racing System 1'20.188 0.462 16
Kaylen Frederick
Carlin 1'20.235 0.509 17 Oliver Rasmussen
HWA AG 1'20.326 0.600 18
Jonny Edgar
Carlin 1'20.444 0.718 19 Ayumu Iwasa
HitechGP 1'20.463 0.737 20
Lorenzo Colombo
Campos Racing 1'20.634 0.908 21 Tijmen van
MP Motorsport 1'20.672 0.946 22
Roman Staněk
HitechGP 1'20.676 0.950 23 Amaury Cordeel
Campos Racing 1'20.680 0.954 24
Juan Manuel Correa
ART Grand Prix 1'20.690 0.964 25 Reshad de
Charouz Racing System 1'20.762 1.036 26 Rafael Villagómez
HWA AG 1'20.943 1.217 27
Johnathan Hoggard
Jenzer Motorsport 1'21.078 1.352 28 László Tóth
Campos Racing 1'21.292 1.566 29 Filip Ugran
Jenzer Motorsport 1'21.451 1.725 30 Ido Cohen
Carlin 1'21.536 1.810 View full results
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