F3 Jerez Testing

Formula 3 was back for the past two days as they were testing in Jerez. Let’s take a look at how it went down.

Day 1-

A few drivers, braved the wet and windy conditions at Jerez when the lights went green, with the majority of the field just doing an installation lap. As the rain began to ease, the field headed out for some flying laps and HiTech Grand Prix’s Isack Hadjar set the baseline time.

With the people below him chopping and changing times, Hadjar was the only red flag, with his car coming to a stop on the gravel. This allowed Collet to take his place at the top of the leaderboard, with the MP Motorsport driver dipping below 1m 42s. But it was PREMA’s Arthur Leclerc who finished on top at the end of the morning session.

Moving onto the second session of Day 1, Arthur Leclerc dropped a 1:43.790 once things started up again. Collet didn’t get the chance to improve as he brought out a red flag at Turn 4.

Martins, Stanek, Rasmussen, Leclerc and Bearman all shared P1 between them as the times started to drop once the track was drying out. But it was Bearman who come out on top in the afternnon!

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Oliver Bearman	PREMA Racing	1:33.009
2	Josep Maria Marti	Campos Racing	1:33.666
3	Zane Maloney	Trident	1:33.736
4	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	1:33.751
5	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA Racing	1:33.998

Day 2-

The track remained damp on the final and second morning, Josep Maria Marti set the pace for Campos before the field switched to dry weather tyres.

Martins broke the 1m 31s barrier for the first time, and several others joined him, he was bumped down to fourth with Leclerc replacing him at the top with a 1:30.628.

Leclerc’s time was only marginally better than Carlin’s rookie O’Sullivan who dropped a 1:30.634.

Onto the afternoon, the sun decided to make an appearance with a completely dry track, Caio Collet produced a benchmark time of 1:30.359.

Yeany’s Campos caused a red flag and interrupted the action around the halfway point, but once it got underway the quickest time fell. Leclerc took the biggest chunk out of it, posting a 1:29.556 to go quickest for the third session out of four.

The session came to a slightly premature end as Juan Manuel Correa stopped at Turn 6 and brought out a red flag in the final seconds. Ushijima posted the most laps of the afternoon stint, completing an impressive 65 laps of the Jerez Circuit.

Position	Driver	Team	Laptime
1	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA Racing	1:29.366
2	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	1:29.380
3	Isack Hadjar	HiTech Grand Prix	1:29.611
4	Franco Colapinto	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:29.614
5	Oliver Rasmussen	Trident	1:29.634

Formula 3 will be back next week, on the 15th April for two more days of in-season testing at Barcelona.

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