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Pulcini tops rain-hit first Barcelona F3 test day

Leonardo Pulcini set the fastest time on the first day of the second official pre-season test of the new FIA Formula 3 Championship, as rain mixed up the leaderboard at Barcelona.

Jack Benyon

Edited: Apr 9, 2019, 5:00 PM

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Leonardo Pulcini, Hitech Grand Prix

Hitech GP driver Pulcini set a 1m33.007s lap, following his strong early showing at the first series test at Paul Ricard where he was fourth and third over the two days respectively.

Red Bull junior Liam Lawson of MP Motorsport, Prema Racing’s Robert Shwartzman and HWA racer Jake Hughes rounded out the top four, all setting their times in the morning.

Carlin’s Felipe Drugovich topped a host of drivers taking advantage of a drying track right at the end of the afternoon to set the fifth-best time of the day. Max Fewtrell of ART Grand Prix was second-quickest in the afternoon and therefore sixth-quickest overall.

Alex Peroni made sure it was two MP cars in the top seven, ahead of Prema’s Marcus Armstrong with both of those drivers best laps coming in the morning session.

David Beckmann took ninth for ART with a late afternoon lap, while Formula Renault Eurocup graduate Yifei Ye rounded out the top 10 with his morning lap.

Drivers and teams got to work with Pirelli’s hard compound tyre while wets were made available in anticipation of the rain.

Andreas Estner, who is the only driver of the 30 present at Barcelona yet to be confirmed for this season and is testing with Jenzer Motorsport, hit the wall at Turn 8 in the morning session.

Testing resumes on Wednesday.

Morning test times:

Pos.

Driver

Team

Laptime

Leonardo Pulcini

Hitech Grand Prix

1:33.007

Liam Lawson

MP Motorsport

1:33.188

Robert Shwartzman

PREMA Racing

1:33.189

Jake Hughes

HWA RACELAB

1:33.199

Alexander Peroni

Campos Racing

1:33.373

Marcus Armstrong

PREMA Racing

1:33.417

Ye Yifei

Hitech Grand Prix

1:33.504

David Beckmann

ART Grand Prix

1:33.523

Juri Vips

Hitech Grand Prix

1:33.588

Jehan Daruvala

PREMA Racing

1:33.594

Sebastian Fernandez

Campos Racing

1:33.686

Max Fewtrell

ART Grand Prix

1:33.689

Richard Verschoor

MP Motorsport

1:33.727

Pedro Piquet

Trident

1:33.744

Simo Laaksonen

MP Motorsport

1:33.755

Lirim Zendeli

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:33.783

Bent Viscaal

HWA RACELAB

1:33.870

Christian Lundgaard

ART Grand Prix

1:33.948

Felipe Drugovich

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:33.971

Raoul Hyman

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:34.009

Yuki Tsunoda

Jenzer Motorsport

1:34.168

Niko Kari

Trident

1:34.179

Teppei Natori

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:34.234

Devlin DeFrancesco

Trident

1:34.334

Logan Sargeant

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:34.362

Fabio Scherer

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:34.733

Andreas Estner

Jenzer Motorsport

1:34.809

Keyvan Andres

HWA RACELAB

1:34.851

Artem Petrov

Jenzer Motorsport

1:35.414

Alessio Deledda

Campos Racing

1:35.705

Afternoon test times:

Pos.

Driver

Team

Laptime

Felipe Drugovich

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:33.284

Max Fewtrell

ART Grand Prix

1:33.291

David Beckmann

ART Grand Prix

1:33.502

Logan Sargeant

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:33.703

Alexander Peroni

Campos Racing

1:33.990

Christian Lundgaard

ART Grand Prix

1:34.036

Liam Lawson

MP Motorsport

1:34.121

Sebastian Fernandez

Campos Racing

1:34.255

Robert Shwartzman

PREMA Racing

1:34.301

Marcus Armstrong

PREMA Racing

1:34.362

Pedro Piquet

Trident

1:34.450

Raoul Hyman

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:34.478

Simo Laaksonen

MP Motorsport

1:34.528

Jehan Daruvala

PREMA Racing

1:34.607

Richard Verschoor

MP Motorsport

1:34.656

Devlin DeFrancesco

Trident

1:34.739

Fabio Scherer

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:34.871

Jake Hughes

HWA RACELAB

1:34.906

Niko Kari

Trident

1:34.912

Bent Viscaal

HWA RACELAB

1:34.955

Andreas Estner

Jenzer Motorsport

1:34.997

Artem Petrov

Jenzer Motorsport

1:36.020

Alessio Deledda

Campos Racing

1:36.039

Keyvan Andres

HWA RACELAB

1:36.929

Yuki Tsunoda

Jenzer Motorsport

1:37.362

Ye Yifei

Hitech Grand Prix

1:41.226

Juri Vips

Hitech Grand Prix

1:44.656

Lirim Zendeli

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:44.675

Leonardo Pulcini

Hitech Grand Prix

1:45.296

Teppei Natori

Carlin Buzz Racing

1:47.791

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