ART Huge Prix pair first and 2d in opening publish-season test, before Smolyar
Christian Lundgaard left ART Huge Prix with hundreds to be elated about on Day 1 of publish-season testing in Valencia, topping the instances with a slick 1: 21.370. The Dane ran narrowly before his teammate, Sebastian Fernandez, who accomplished 0.229s slower. Backing up the ART duo change into Alexander Smolyar, who impressed on his debut with Sauber Junior Group by Charouz.
Lirim Zendeli, in his maiden appearance for Jenzer Motorsport, speak the tempo sooner or later of a moist morning with 1: 33.719, and the German impressed once extra in the 2d stint, ending fourth in the dry.
Shaded clouds loomed above the Circuit de Valencia before the morning’s session and rain began to fall onto the note because the lights went green. 27 drivers headed out in the hole few minutes, nonetheless opted towards surroundings a lap time, as an various focusing on getting a feel for the damp circumstances.
As soon as note circumstances had been evaluated and the vehicles assessed once extra, Jenzer Motorsport despatched Lirim Zendeli out to eye what he can also pause in his new machinery. The German wasn’t at fat throttle, nonetheless aloof managed to speak the accepted at 1: 39.627, in the moist Pirelli compounds.
The remainder of the 30 drivers adopted suit and Dan Ticktum speak about giving Zendeli a urge for his money, bettering his opening time by bigger than 5s. The Jenzer driver improved to 1: 35,543, nonetheless needed to accept P2, before Linus Lundqvist.
Ticktum ran via 13 extra laps in the hole hour and continued to high the timings, as Jake Hughes, Smolyar and Richard Verschoor all leapfrogged Zendeli in the standings.
Smolyar change into impressing on his debut for Sauber Junior Group by Charouz and punched in a sooner tour than Ticktum on his 21st lap, breaking the 1m 40s barrier. He change into mercurial toppled by the day’s initial pacesetter though, as Zendeli returned to P1 with a time of 1: 33.719.
The note began to dry because the morning session came to a shut, nonetheless the vehicles continued with the wets as damp sections remained, and the German on high wouldn’t be crushed in the sophisticated circumstances. Backing up the Jezner man change into Smolyar in 2d and Ticktum in third, while Hughes and Lundgaard accomplished the discontinue 5.
The note had dried by the purpose they returned in the afternoon and the 30 drivers rapid switched to the soft compounds, nonetheless resisted the flee to head straight help onto the note, as an various putting beyond regular time in on the vehicles in the garage.
After they did began to feed onto the circuit 20 minutes later, Smolyar continued his spectacular vein of assemble, surroundings the benchmark at 1: 23.583. Zendeli would in the ruin whittle his possess time down and edge before the Russian, beating him by a slim margin of 0.180s.
From thereon in, the instances began to tumble. Jonathan Hoggard in the starting build stole the lead, before ART duo Lungaard and Fernandez ran forward by breaking the 1m 23s barrier. They had been mercurial displaced by the PREMA of Logan Sargeant, before Verschoor handed MP Motorsport a spark off high.
With time working out, David Beckmann had a stint in P1 with Trident, before Zendeli took his build help out in front. It looked as if it would remain this fashion, before Lundgaard let out. The Dane powered all over the Circuit de Valencia in 1: 21.370, adopted by his teammate Fernandez, 0.299s in the help of.
The ART pair had been the catch of Day 1, with Smolyar in the help of them in third, before Zendeli and Alessio Lorandi. Devlin DeFrancesco, Yuki Tsunoda, Ferdinand Habsburg, Ticktum and Sargeant accomplished the discontinue ten.
Class of 2019 duo Zigzag Viscaal and Simo Laaksonen will return for the next day to come to come’s session, which could consist of debuts for Enzo Fittipaldi, Theo Pourchaire and Dennis Hauger, amongst others. They’ll all hit the note at 9am (local time).
FIA Formulation 3 Valencia publish-season test – Day 1 morning session
DRIVER | TEAM | LAPTIME | LAPS | |
1 | Lirim Zendeli | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 33.719 | 32 |
2 | Alexander Smolyar | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 33.850 | 32 |
3 | Dan Ticktum | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 34.000 | 33 |
4 | Jake Hughes | HWA RACELAB | 1: 34.283 | 36 |
5 | Christian Lundgaard | ART Huge Prix | 1: 34.302 | 40 |
6 | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport | 1: 34.394 | 22 |
7 | Max Fewtrell | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 34.436 | 34 |
8 | Jack Doohan | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 34.507 | 54 |
9 | Lorenzo Colombo | MP Motorsport | 1: 34.523 | 30 |
10 | Oscar Piastri | PREMA Racing | 1: 34.638 | 29 |
11 | David Beckmann | Trident | 1: 34.662 | 40 |
12 | Logan Sargeant | PREMA Racing | 1: 34.674 | 29 |
13 | Yu Kanamaru | Campos Racing | 1: 34.690 | 39 |
14 | Jonathan Hoggard | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 34.706 | 38 |
15 | Theo Pourchaire | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 34.707 | 35 |
16 | Linus Lundqvist | HWA RACELAB | 1: 34.756 | 29 |
17 | Alessio Lorandi | Trident | 1: 34.770 | 38 |
18 | Ferdinand Habsburg | ART Huge Prix | 1: 34.771 | 33 |
19 | Sebastian Fernandez | ART Huge Prix | 1: 34.777 | 38 |
20 | Federico Malvestiti | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 34.811 | 37 |
21 | Enaam Ahmed | PREMA Racing | 1: 34.890 | 30 |
22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 34.894 | 32 |
23 | Devlin DeFrancesco | Trident | 1: 34.937 | 43 |
24 | Billy Monger | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 34.965 | 34 |
25 | Joao Vieira | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 35.022 | 58 |
26 | Fabio Scherer | HWA RACELAB | 1: 35.487 | 35 |
27 | Calan Williams | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 35.564 | 40 |
28 | Lukas Dunner | MP Motorsport | 1: 35.573 | 39 |
29 | David Vidales | Campos Racing | 1: 36.083 | 38 |
30 | Alessio Deledda | Campos Racing | 1: 37.421 | 33 |
FIA Formulation 3 Valencia publish-season test – Day 1 afternoon session
DRIVER | TEAM | LAPTIME | LAPS | |
1 | Christian Lundgaard | ART Huge Prix | 1: 21.370 | 39 |
2 | Sebastian Fernandez | ART Huge Prix | 1: 21.599 | 42 |
3 | Alexander Smolyar | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 21.613 | 49 |
4 | Lirim Zendeli | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 21.685 | 43 |
5 | Alessio Lorandi | Trident | 1: 21.776 | 48 |
6 | Devlin DeFrancesco | Trident | 1: 21.819 | 40 |
7 | Yuki Tsunoda | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 21.858 | 37 |
8 | Ferdinand Habsburg | ART Huge Prix | 1: 21.867 | 41 |
9 | Dan Ticktum | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 21.914 | 40 |
10 | Logan Sargeant | PREMA Racing | 1: 21.992 | 42 |
11 | Linus Lundqvist | HWA RACELAB | 1: 22.011 | 39 |
12 | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport | 1: 22.105 | 35 |
13 | Oscar Piastri | PREMA Racing | 1: 22.122 | 43 |
14 | Jake Hughes | HWA RACELAB | 1: 22.177 | 28 |
15 | Lorenzo Colombo | MP Motorsport | 1: 22.315 | 39 |
16 | Jonathan Hoggard | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 22.420 | 41 |
17 | David Beckmann | Trident | 1: 22.428 | 46 |
18 | Jack Doohan | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 22.435 | 41 |
19 | Max Fewtrell | Hitech Huge Prix | 1: 22.443 | 26 |
20 | Lukas Dunner | MP Motorsport | 1: 22.492 | 37 |
21 | Yu Kanamaru | Campos Racing | 1: 22.565 | 34 |
22 | Theo Pourchaire | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 22.576 | 37 |
23 | Federico Malvestiti | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 22.591 | 42 |
24 | Fabio Scherer | HWA RACELAB | 1: 22.670 | 39 |
25 | Enaam Ahmed | PREMA Racing | 1: 22.927 | 44 |
26 | Calan Williams | Jenzer Motorsport | 1: 22.993 | 41 |
27 | David Vidales | Campos Racing | 1: 23.164 | 41 |
28 | Billy Monger | Carlin Buzz Racing | 1: 23.507 | 11 |
29 | Joao Vieira | Sauber Junior Group by Charouz | 1: 23.542 | 41 |
30 | Alessio Deledda | Campos Racing | 1: 24.218 | 35 |
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