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Silverstone F3: Red Bull's Vips sees off Prema pair for pole

Red Bull Formula 1 junior Juri Vips delivered a first pole of the season for Hitech Grand Prix in one of the most exciting sessions of the Formula 3 season so far at Silverstone.

Jack Benyon

Edited: Jul 12, 2019, 5:58 PM

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Juri Vips, Hitech Grand Prix

With 30 cars sparring for track position, there were a large number of late improvements, and by the end the top 28 wound up within 1.6 seconds of pole position.

Vips had topped the session on multiple occasions but the Austria race one winner was the last frontrunner across the line to set a 1m43.902s.

Ferrari junior Marcus Armstrong joined Vips on the front row of the grid for Saturday’s race.

The Prema driver was less than a tenth adrift, the only other driver to break the 1m44s threshold. He had run off the track one lap earlier joining the Wellington Straight and was lucky not to damage his car.

Jehan Daruvala made it two Prema cars in the top three, as one of a flurry of late improvers.

Christian Lundgaard – hamstrung in Austria after he and ART teammate teammate David Beckmann were disqualified from qualifying as their physios were deemed to be working on their cars in the pits by holding fans to a radiator duct – took fifth.

The Danish driver narrowly headed Vips’ Hitech teammate Leo Pulcini who rounded out the top five.

Robert Shwartzman took sixth and was the last of the Prema drivers. He had been second with just seconds on the clock remaining, but was one of many shuffled back by a host of late improvers.

In seventh, the youngest driver on the grid, Red Bull-backed Liam Lawson, made use of the alternate strategy running in the middle of the session for his best qualifying of the season so far with MP Motorsport.

Pedro Piquet took eighth for Trident, which had topped the session with less than a minute to go with Niko Kari who was shuffled all the way back to 12th.

Fabio Scherer was another shuffled back late on but is enjoying his best weekend yet with the Sauber Junior Team in ninth, while Yifei Ye took 10th but faces a five-place grid drop from the last round. That will promote HWA’s Jake Hughes, winner of race two in Austria, into the top 10.

The only new driver for this round, Jenzer's Federico Malvestiti, qualified 29th, 2.2 seconds slower than Vips.

Session results:

Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 21 Estonia Jüri Vips
HitechGP 1'43.902 2 26 New Zealand Marcus Armstrong
Prema Powerteam 1'43.998 0.096 3 27 India Jehan Daruvala
Prema Powerteam 1'44.014 0.112 4 3 Denmark Christian Lundgaard
ART Grand Prix 1'44.073 0.171 5 20 Italy Leonardo Pulcini
HitechGP 1'44.139 0.237 6 28 Russian Federation Robert Shwartzman
Prema Powerteam 1'44.218 0.316 7 4 New Zealand Liam Lawson
MP Motorsport 1'44.360 0.458 8 18 Brazil Pedro Piquet
Trident 1'44.403 0.501 9 8 Switzerland Fabio Scherer
Charouz Racing System 1'44.433 0.531 10 22 China Ye Yifei
HitechGP 1'44.461 0.559 11 11 United Kingdom Jake Hughes
HWA AG 1'44.462 0.560 12 19 Finland Niko Kari
Trident 1'44.476 0.574 13 1 Germany David Beckmann
ART Grand Prix 1'44.581 0.679 14 2 Max Fewtrell
ART Grand Prix 1'44.584 0.682 15 9 South Africa Raoul Hyman
Charouz Racing System 1'44.647 0.745 16 31 United States Logan Sargeant
Carlin 1'44.746 0.844 17 7 Germany Lirim Zendeli
Charouz Racing System 1'44.756 0.854 18 6 Netherlands Richard Verschoor
MP Motorsport 1'44.967 1.065 19 25 Venezuela Sebastian Fernandez
Campos Racing 1'44.984 1.082 20 30 Brazil Felipe Drugovich
Carlin 1'45.020 1.118 21 23 Australia Alex Peroni
Campos Racing 1'45.088 1.186 22 17 Canada Devlin DeFrancesco
Trident 1'45.109 1.207 23 12 Germany Keyvan Andres
HWA AG 1'45.110 1.208 24 5 Finland Simo Laaksonen
MP Motorsport 1'45.142 1.240 25 10 Netherlands Bent Viscaal
HWA AG 1'45.229 1.327 26 14 Japan Yuki Tsunoda
Jenzer Motorsport 1'45.301 1.399 27 16 Germany Andreas Estner
Jenzer Motorsport 1'45.435 1.533 28 29 Japan Teppei Natori
Carlin 1'45.590 1.688 29 15 Federico Malvestiti
Jenzer Motorsport 1'46.103 2.201 30 24 Italy Alessio Deledda
Campos Racing 1'47.068 3.166 View full results

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