F3 Post-Season Test Day 1

Today we had the first day of post-season testing for Formula 3, it took place in Valencia. Testing takes place over three days, with an overall of 18 hours in total. Lets take a look on how things have ended today.

Morning-

To start the day off, we started in wet conditions with everyone being forced to head out on wet tyres, but it soon switched to blue skies.

Rookie Franco Colapinto set the early pace with MP Motorsport lapping a 1:35.044 just ahead of team-mate Caio Collet. P1 then kept switching between the rookie duo, Zane Maloney and Grégoire Saucy before Jonny Edgar took the time below 1:30’s and took the lead.

Then a switch to the slicks with an hour left on the clock produced some better lap times under 1m 26s. Caio Collet broke the 1m 24s barrier with only 15 minutes left, just before Doohan put the Dutch-based team, Van Amersfoort Racing in first.

The top 10 from the morning session is as follows:

	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Jack Doohan	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:23.349
2	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	1:23.541
3	Kaylen Frederick	HiTech Grand Prix	1:23.546
4	Roman Stanek	Trident	1:23.580
5	Jak Crawford	PREMA Racing	1:23.668
6	Oliver Rasmussen	Charouz Racing System	1:23.747
7	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA Racing	1:23.765
8	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	1:23.838
9	Franco Colapinto	MP Motorsport	1:23.847
10	Zane Maloney	Trident	1:23.863

Afternoon-

For the afternoon session things warmed up, as MP Motorsport set the pace with Collet leading Colapinto with a lap time of 1:23.125. Kaylen Frederick then briefly replaced Colapinto in P2 before Martins drove into P1 being the first driver to break the 1m 23s today.

With less than an hour to go on the clock, Doohan broke into the top two but still remained a hundredth of Martins time. During the final stages he managed to push Martins down to P2 after putting a 1:22.402 on the board.

Saucy and Maloney led the rookies this afternoon where they placed third and fourth, ahead of Stanek. Rasmussen put in the most laps of the afternoon completing 60.

The top 10 of afternoon session is as follows:

	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Jack Doohan	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:22.402
2	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	1:22.533
3	Grégoire Saucy	ART Grand Prix	1:22.684
4	Zane Maloney	Trident	1:22.708
5	Roman Stanek	Trident	1:22.739
6	Lorenzo Colombo	Charouz Racing System	1:22.846
7	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA Racing	1:22.893
8	Jak Crawford	PREMA Racing	1:22.967
9	Oliver Rasmussen	Charouz Racing System	1:23.071
10	Franco Colapinto	MP Motorsport	1:23.072

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