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.
Leonardo Pulcini, Hitech Grand Prix
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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 |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
Leonardo Pulcini |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:33.007 |
2 |
Liam Lawson |
MP Motorsport |
1:33.188 |
3 |
Robert Shwartzman |
PREMA Racing |
1:33.189 |
4 |
Jake Hughes |
HWA RACELAB |
1:33.199 |
5 |
Alexander Peroni |
Campos Racing |
1:33.373 |
6 |
Marcus Armstrong |
PREMA Racing |
1:33.417 |
7 |
Ye Yifei |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:33.504 |
8 |
David Beckmann |
ART Grand Prix |
1:33.523 |
9 |
Juri Vips |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:33.588 |
10 |
Jehan Daruvala |
PREMA Racing |
1:33.594 |
11 |
Sebastian Fernandez |
Campos Racing |
1:33.686 |
12 |
Max Fewtrell |
ART Grand Prix |
1:33.689 |
13 |
Richard Verschoor |
MP Motorsport |
1:33.727 |
14 |
Pedro Piquet |
Trident |
1:33.744 |
15 |
Simo Laaksonen |
MP Motorsport |
1:33.755 |
16 |
Lirim Zendeli |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:33.783 |
17 |
Bent Viscaal |
HWA RACELAB |
1:33.870 |
18 |
Christian Lundgaard |
ART Grand Prix |
1:33.948 |
19 |
Felipe Drugovich |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:33.971 |
20 |
Raoul Hyman |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:34.009 |
21 |
Yuki Tsunoda |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:34.168 |
22 |
Niko Kari |
Trident |
1:34.179 |
23 |
Teppei Natori |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:34.234 |
24 |
Devlin DeFrancesco |
Trident |
1:34.334 |
25 |
Logan Sargeant |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:34.362 |
26 |
Fabio Scherer |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:34.733 |
27 |
Andreas Estner |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:34.809 |
28 |
Keyvan Andres |
HWA RACELAB |
1:34.851 |
29 |
Artem Petrov |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:35.414 |
30 |
Alessio Deledda |
Campos Racing |
1:35.705 |
Afternoon test times:
Pos. |
Driver |
Team |
Laptime |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
Felipe Drugovich |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:33.284 |
2 |
Max Fewtrell |
ART Grand Prix |
1:33.291 |
3 |
David Beckmann |
ART Grand Prix |
1:33.502 |
4 |
Logan Sargeant |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:33.703 |
5 |
Alexander Peroni |
Campos Racing |
1:33.990 |
6 |
Christian Lundgaard |
ART Grand Prix |
1:34.036 |
7 |
Liam Lawson |
MP Motorsport |
1:34.121 |
8 |
Sebastian Fernandez |
Campos Racing |
1:34.255 |
9 |
Robert Shwartzman |
PREMA Racing |
1:34.301 |
10 |
Marcus Armstrong |
PREMA Racing |
1:34.362 |
11 |
Pedro Piquet |
Trident |
1:34.450 |
12 |
Raoul Hyman |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:34.478 |
13 |
Simo Laaksonen |
MP Motorsport |
1:34.528 |
14 |
Jehan Daruvala |
PREMA Racing |
1:34.607 |
15 |
Richard Verschoor |
MP Motorsport |
1:34.656 |
16 |
Devlin DeFrancesco |
Trident |
1:34.739 |
17 |
Fabio Scherer |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:34.871 |
18 |
Jake Hughes |
HWA RACELAB |
1:34.906 |
19 |
Niko Kari |
Trident |
1:34.912 |
20 |
Bent Viscaal |
HWA RACELAB |
1:34.955 |
21 |
Andreas Estner |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:34.997 |
22 |
Artem Petrov |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:36.020 |
23 |
Alessio Deledda |
Campos Racing |
1:36.039 |
24 |
Keyvan Andres |
HWA RACELAB |
1:36.929 |
25 |
Yuki Tsunoda |
Jenzer Motorsport |
1:37.362 |
26 |
Ye Yifei |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:41.226 |
27 |
Juri Vips |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:44.656 |
28 |
Lirim Zendeli |
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz |
1:44.675 |
29 |
Leonardo Pulcini |
Hitech Grand Prix |
1:45.296 |
30 |
Teppei Natori |
Carlin Buzz Racing |
1:47.791 |
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