F2 Bahrain- Day 1

Free Practice-

Novalak had initially set the first laptime of the new Formula 2 season, with the Frenchman setting a 1:48.044. He then improved with his second tour of the track but it was Jake Hughes who jumped up to take P1 and setting a 1:45.294.

Lawson’s first attempt at a flying lap put him second- half a second of Hughes, Marcus Armstrong briefly jumped ahead of him but the Carlin driver’s second attempt put him in first.

PREMA’s Daruvala pushed Lawson down to second before Armstrong jumped ahead of him too, slotting into 2nd. MP Motorsport then bumped Daruvala down to third as Drugovich went first ahead of Novalak. With less than three minutes left, DAMS were able to break the MP pair up.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	1:44.484
2	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	1:44.679
3	Roy Nissany	DAMS	1:44.754
4	Clement Novalak	MP Motorsport	1:44.769
5	Marcus Armstrong	HiTech Grand Prix	1:44.833

Qualifying-

All 22 cars took to the track when the lights went green but the session was red-flagged due to Iwasa’s DAMS came to a halt. Once the car was off the track, the session then resumed, Jake Hughes and Amaury Cordeel the Van Amersfoort pair led the session.

Hughes was sat in P1 after the first flying laps ended with a 1:41.469. The British driver kept on to the position as his second fast lap was enough to beat Felipe Drugovich to the top spot.

But it was Jack Doohan who put himself on pole position for Sunday’s feature race, with Theo Pourchaire in P2 and Juri Vips in P3. Felipe Drugovich will start Saturday’s Sprint race in P1, with Verschoor lining up next to him and Jake Hughes in P3.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	1:40.542
2	Theo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:40.683
3	Juri Vips	HiTech Grand Prix	1:40.755
4	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:40.760
5	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:41.000
6	Liam Lawson	Carlin	1:41.100
7	Jehan Daruvala	PREMA Racing	1:41.115
8	Jake Hughes	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:41.121
9	Richard Verschoor	Trident	1:41.178
10	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	1:41.210

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