F3 – Doohan tops both classes on Day 1 of testing in Jerez

Trident’s Jack Doohan carried over his produce from the opening spherical of the season, leading both the morning and the afternoon stint on the opening day of testing in Jerez.

It was as soon as the Trident racer’s morning tour that performed at the tip of the timesheets, with a time of 1: 29.625 sufficient to beat out teammate Clement Novalak and ART Huge Prix’s Frederik Vesti.

MORNING

Making the day out from the Northeast of Spain to the Southwest, the F3 discipline followed up the opening spherical of the campaign in Barcelona with a two-day test in Jerez two days later, giving them another choice to produce on what they’d realized.

Heading out at the first alternative under the Spanish sun, MP Motorsport were amongst the busiest within the opening half an hour, with Tijmen Van der Helm the first man to high the leaderboard, earlier than Caio Collet obtained the posthaste laps underway, setting the accepted at 1: 31.304. The Alpine junior persevered in a the same vein within the route of the session, sooner or later ending in P8.

Juan Manuel Correa scored his first level in F3 throughout Tear 2 at Barcelona and followed this up with a table-topping time on the opening morning in Jerez, setting a 1: 30.754 to beat out ART Huge Prix teammate Vesti. Though Correa later dropped down the impart and out of the tip 10, Vesti was as soon as in a design to steal P3 at the chequered flag.

Jonny Edgar and Calan Williams were the first drivers to smash the 1m 30s barrier, doing so interior seconds of one every other, however it was as soon as the Carlin Buzz driver who went quickest, lapping at 1: 29.991. The duo had fallen to fourth and seventh by the cease of the session.

Setting the quickest time at the post-season tests in Jerez final October, Doohan place himself aid at the tip of the impart with the quickest of the morning runs, lapping at 1: 29.625, earlier than Trident teammate Novalak.

Alex Smolyar completed the tip five earlier than Ayumu Iwasa. Pierre-Louis Chovet and Jak Crawford took the rest two high 10 spots, ending ninth and 10th.

AFTERNOON

Contemporary Championship leader, Dennis Hauger, flexed his muscle groups before all the pieces up of the afternoon session, setting the tempo at 1: 31.405 earlier than Doohan and his PREMA teammate, Arthur Leclerc.

There was as soon as heaps of time to serene be discovered around Jerez though, and Roman Stanek was as soon as the first to acquire it, overtaking the PREMA with a tour of 1: 31.332, earlier than his teammate, Iwasa leapt above him with the first sub-1m 31s time of the afternoon.

However it was as soon as the acquainted name of Doohan who ended the session on high, following up his successful morning stint with the quickest time of the afternoon as properly, lapping at 1: 30.605 to drop Iwasa to P2.

It was as soon as an all-Red Bull academy high four as Jak Crawford claimed third earlier than Hauger, with Doohan’s teammate, Novalak, ending the tip five. Edgar ensured that one and all amongst the Red Bull Juniors had a predicament within the tip 10, as he took P6 earlier than Leclerc and Collet.

Stanek had dropped to P9 by the time the session concluded, while Amaury Cordeel took the rest predicament within the tip 10.

2021 FIA FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP – JEREZ TEST, DAY 1, MORNING SESSION

2021 FIA FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP – JEREZ TEST, DAY 1, AFTERNOON SESSION