McLaren junior Norris tops first Hungary F3 test day

McLaren junior Lando Norris set the pace on the opening day of European Formula 3 pre-season testing at the Hungaroring, closely followed by fellow rookie Joey Mawson.

Norris's top time of 1m34.893s was recorded during the morning session, which was dominated by his Carlin team.

The Briton, whose advantage was over three tenths, was followed by teammates Jake Dennis - who has been drafted in for this test in the as-yet unfilled fourth Carlin car - and Jehan Daruvala.

Van Amersfoort newcomer Mawson topped the afternoon test, becoming the second driver of the day to go below the 1m35s barrier.

His time fell 0.060s short of the benchmark set by Norris in the morning, but he surpassed the other Carlin drivers to take second overall.

Dennis wound up third, followed by Motopark's Joel Eriksson and VAR's Pedro Piquet, who set an identical time to the Swede. Harrison Newey was sixth-fastest in the third of the VAR cars.

Daruvala, just like Norris, didn't improve on his morning time, and the Force India junior ended up seventh.

The Prema trio of Maximilian Gunther, Callum Ilott and Guan Yu Zhou took eighth, ninth and 10th respectively, all three drivers separated by less than a tenth.

Mick Schumacher in the fourth Prema car was only 14th overall.

Day 1 testing times:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Morning time	Afternoon time
1	Lando Norris	Carlin	1'34.893	1'35.323
2	Joey Mawson	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'35.827	1'34.952
3	Jake Dennis	Carlin	1'35.226	1'35.010
4	Joel Eriksson	Motopark	1'35.319	1'35.055
5	Pedro Piquet	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'35.923	1'35.055
6	Harrison Newey	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'35.468	1'35.162
7	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1'35.247	1'35.648
8	Maximilian Gunther	Prema Powerteam	1'35.757	1'35.292
9	Callum Ilott	Prema Powerteam	1'35.870	1'35.316
10	Guan Yu Zhou	Prema Powerteam	1'35.590	1'35.366
11	Nikita Mazepin	Hitech GP	1'35.860	1'35.376
12	Ferdinand Habsburg	Carlin	1'35.390	1'35.398
13	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'36.166	1'35.488
14	Mick Schumacher	Prema Powerteam	1'36.162	1'35.521
15	Jake Hughes	Hitech GP	1'36.022	1'35.802
16	Tadasuke Makino	Hitech GP	1'36.440	1'35.842
17	Keyvan Soori	Motopark	1'37.012	1'35.849
18	Ralf Aron	Hitech GP	1'35.979	1'35.966
19	Marino Sato	Motopark	1'37.420	1'37.471