F2 Testing Bahrain

Formula 2 cars are back on track, as they had their pre-season test in Bahrain before the season starts in two weeks.

Day 1-

AM:

Ayumu Iwasa, lead the field out of the pits but it was Logan Sargaent who emerged in first leading, Marino Sato and Marcus Armstrong. There were three delays during the session as Juri Vips stopped on track twice, with Olli Caldwell also coming to a stop too.

Lawson took control of the session setting a 1:44.522, ahead of Drugovich. Rookie’s Iwasa and Cem Bolukbasi posted the most laps with 26 each.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1	Liam Lawson	Carlin	1:44.522	22
2	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	1:44.910	25
3	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:45.010	22
4	Jehan Daruvala	PREMA Racing	1:45.103	23
5	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	1:45.182	21

PM:

Drugovich returned to the front of the order at the beginning of the afternoon session setting a 1:43.831. After two red flags, one each for Vips and Bolukbasi, Lawson returned to the top.

The timesheet got a reshuffle as PREMA went on a set of fast laps, with Daruvala lapped a 1:42.074, but it was Williams who split the two PREMA’s. Ralph Boschung set the most laps in the afternoon with 38 to his name.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1	Jehan Daruvala	PREMA Racing	1:42.074	25
2	Calan Williams	Trident	1:42.590	31
3	Dennis Hauger	PREMA Racing	1:42.590	25
4	Liam Lawson	Carlin	1:43.478	31
5	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:43.483	31

Day 2-

AM:

After Vips had a stop start opening day, he took to track on the second and led a long-run focused morning. He was the only driver to break the 1m 47s barrier ending with a healthy 0.526s over second place.

The order remained consistent throughout the morning with six drivers totting up more than 40 laps each, including Fittipaldi, Williams, Sargeant and Vesi who all made the top 10.

There were 3 red flag during the session Amaury Cordeel came to a stop twice on track, as well as Ayumu Iwasa at turn 2.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1	Juri Vips	HiTech Grand Prix	1:46.705	23
2	Richard Verschoor	Trident	1:47.231	22
3	Cem Bolukbasi	Charouz Racing System	1:47.688	33
4	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	1:48.889	41
5	Jake Hughes	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:48.909	34

PM:

The afternoon was aimed to lay down some fast times but the session was interrupted early on as Marcus Armstrong clipped the barriers at Turn 8. Once the session resumed, Drugovich posted the fastest time of the day with a 1:42.907.

Carlin’s new line up, took further chunks out of the quickest time as Sargeant put a 1:42.144 on the board. Boschung then replaced them at the top but Lawson didn’t let him stay there long.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1	Liam Lawson	Carlin	1:41.623	20
2	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:42.096	20
3	Theo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:42.096	25
4	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:42.133	26
5	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	1:42.144	22

Day 3-

AM:

The morning session saw teams performing long runs to get their final preparations before the opening race. Two of the three drivers to post fewer than 30 laps were at the top of the leaderboard, being the MP pair. Theo Pourchaire was the driver who set the most laps, racking up 56 in total.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	1:44.911	24
2	Clement Novalak	MP Motorsport	1:45.883	22
3	Juri Vips	HiTech Grand Prix	1:45.978	50
4	Liam Lawson	Carlin	1:46.114	46
5	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:46.761	45

The afternoon session, was cancelled due to a sandstorm which made the visibility low. But Formula 2 is back in two weeks for the season opener in Bahrain