SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS | Sun was this afternoon at circuit of Spa and that was helpful for Hitech GP who finally got the results that they were looking for. George Russell set the pole position ahead of Joel Eriksson and Nikita Mazepin.

Perfect afternoon for George Russell (Hitech GP) who today scored more pole positions than his whole career in FIA Formula 3 European championship. The Briton set the pole position for both races after a poor qualifying strategy by Prema.

The Prema Powerteam drivers showed a poor team power today with a bad communication between Stroll and Cassidy who made a really bad qualifying. The championship leader will start eleventh and ninth as Cassidy 13th and 10th.

For the Race 1, Russell will start from pole position ahead of Joel Eriksson (Motopark), Nikita Mazepin (Hitech GP) and Mikkel Jensen (kfteile24 Mücke Motorsport). Behind them finished Ben Barnicoat (Hitech GP) who helped Mazepin during the quali.

Completing the top10 are Van Amersfoort Racing drivers, Callum Ilott and Anthoine Hubert, ahead of Maxi Günther (Prema Powerteam), David Beckmann (kfteile24 Mücke Motorsport) and Guanyu Zhou (Motopark).

The 2nd fastest lap allowed the pole position for race 3 to Russell again. Eriksson and Barnicoat followed the Hitech driver ahead of Ilott, Hubert, Mazepin, Beckmann, Günther, Cassidy.

 

Qualifying session results:

Pos. Driver Team Time Gap
1 George Russell GBR HitechGP 2:12,110
2 Joel Eriksson (R) SWE Motopark 2:12,218 + 0,108
3 Nikita Mazepin (R) RUS HitechGP 2:12,403 + 0,293
4 Mikkel Jensen DNK kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport 2:12,554 + 0,444
5 Ben Barnicoat (R) GBR HitechGP 2:12,566 + 0,456
6 Callum Ilott GBR Van Amersfoort Racing 2:12,599 + 0,489
7 Anthoine Hubert (R) FRA Van Amersfoort Racing 2:12,646 + 0,536
8 Maximilian Günther DEU Prema Powerteam 2:12,700 + 0,590
9 David Beckmann (R) DEW kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport 2:12,793 + 0,683
10 Guanyu Zhou (R) CHN Motopark 2:12,853 + 0,743
11 Lance Stroll CAN Prema Powerteam 2:13,033 + 0,923
12 Niko Kari (R) FIN Motopark 2:13,035 + 0,925
13 Nick Cassidy NZL Prema Powerteam 2:13,145 + 1,035
14 Ryan Tveter USA Carlin 2:13,371 + 1,261
15 Pedro Piquet BRA Van Amersfoort Racing 2:13,609 + 1,499
16 Harrison Newey (R) GBR Van Amersfoort Racing 2:13,615 + 1,505
17 Sérgio Sette Câmara BRA Motopark 2:13,669 + 1,559
18 Ralf Aron (R) EST Prema Powerteam 2:13,815 + 1,705
19 Ukyo Sasahara (R) JPN Threebond with T-Sport 2:14,049 + 1,939
20 Alessio Lorandi ITA Carlin 2:14,110 + 2,000
21 Weiron Tan MYS Carlin 2:15,446 + 3,336

 

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