Daniel Juncadella leads first Masters of Formula 3 qualifying at Zandvoort
Daniel Juncadella claimed provisional pole position for the Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort with his final flying lap of a rain-delayed first qualifying
The Spaniard was just 14th when the session was red-flagged five minutes from the end after Mucke's Felix Rosenqvist and Prema's Raffaele Marciello both stopped out on track.
On a constantly drying circuit however there was still time to improve when the session did eventually resume, and on his final lap Juncadella (Prema) got down to a 1m45.127s to seal provisional pole for Sunday's race.
In doing so he also demoted Carlos Sainz Jr (Carlin) into second. The Spaniard had moved almost one second clear of the field prior to the red flag, improving on his own benchmark several times, but could not repeat the feat following the restart and wound up just over one tenth down on Juncadella as a result.
Rosenqvist fell even more heavily. Second prior to the red flag, damage to the left front of his Dallara-Mercedes ruled him out of the final minutes, and he slipped to fifth by the session's finish.
Like Juncadella, Alex Lynn (Fortec) came from outside the top eight to claim third, while Carlin's Will Buller improved from sixth to fourth in the final minute.
Home favourite Hannes van Asseldonk (Fortec) finished fractions behind Rosenqvist in sixth, ahead of Mucke's Pascal Wehrlein and current FIA European F3 Championship leader Raffaele Marciello. The Prema man stopped on the outside of S-Bocht at the same time Rosenqvist was forced to park at the Hugenholtz.
His team-mate Michael Lewis ended first qualifying ninth, ahead of Fortec's Pipo Derani.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Daniel Juncadella Prema Dallara-Merc 1m45.127s 2. Carlos Sainz Jr Carlin Dallara-VW 1m45.269s + 0.142s 3. Alex Lynn Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m45.569s + 0.442s 4. William Buller Carlin Dallara-VW 1m45.794s + 0.667s 5. Felix Rosenqvist Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m46.027s + 0.900s 6. Hannes van Asseldonk Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m46.044s + 0.917s 7. Pascal Wehrlein Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m46.051s + 0.924s 8. Raffaelle Marciello Prema Dallara-Merc 1m46.132s + 1.005s 9. Michael Lewis Prema Dallara-Merc 1m46.417s + 1.290s 10. Pipo Derani Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m46.478s + 1.351s 11. Dennis van de Laar Carlin Dallara-VW 1m46.541s + 1.414s 12. Sven Muller Prema Dallara-Merc 1m46.917s + 1.790s 13. Conor Daly Double R Dallara-Merc 1m46.940s + 1.813s 14. Felix Serralles Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m47.020s + 1.893s 15. Geoff Uhrhane Double R Dallara-Merc 1m47.185s + 2.058s 16. Josh Webster T-Sport Dallara-Mugen 1m48.234s + 3.107s 17. Luis Sa Silva Angola Dallara-Merc 1m48.709s + 3.582s 18. Andrea Roda Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m49.195s + 4.068s 19. Sandro Zeller Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m49.432s + 4.305s 20. Spike Goddard T-Sport Dallara-Mugen 1m50.841s + 5.714s
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