Red Bull's Ticktum tops day two and final pre-season test overall
McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Dan Ticktum emerged with the overall fastest time from the final two-day Formula 3 European Championship pre-season test at Misano
Macau Grand Prix winner and Red Bull Junior Ticktum set the quickest time on the circuit near Italy's Adriatic coast by 0.083 seconds in his Motopark Dallara-Volkswagen during the three-hour morning session on the second day.
Almost all of the 24 runners set their quickest times over the two days in this session, with Hitech GP-run Alex Palou ending up second in his Mercedes-powered Dallara.
Palou was just a hundredth of a second quicker than no fewer than three rivals, with Prema Powerteam's Guan Yu Zhou being credited with third place, although the Ferrari junior's time was equalled to the thousandth by Carlin's Ferdinand Habsburg.
Ticktum's Motopark team-mate Juri Vips, who was the pacesetter on Monday, was just 0.003s slower than Zhou and Habsburg in fifth, and the Estonian set the quickest time in the two-hour afternoon session to defeat Ticktum by 0.039s.
Another very close batch of drivers in the overall standings was headed by Carlin's Renault F1 protege Sacha Fenestraz in sixth, ahead of Enaam Ahmed (Hitech), Mick Schumacher (Prema), Fabio Scherer (Motopark), Jehan Daruvala (Carlin) and Sebastian Fernandez (Motopark).
Although Fernandez was only 11th quickest, he was a mere 0.170s off Ticktum's day-topping pace after a test that has featured ultra-close times.
Fernandez completed a Motopark 1-2-3 in the afternoon behind Vips and Ticktum, with Ahmed fourth and Daruvala fifth.
Apart from private 'joker day' tests, the Misano running represents the last European F3 activity for exactly one month, until qualifying kicks off for the 2018 season-opening Pau Grand Prix meeting.
Day two morning results
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dan Ticktum | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m27.099s |
2 | Alex Palou | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.083s |
3 | Guanyu Zhou | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.096s |
4 | Ferdinand Habsburg | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.096s |
5 | Juri Vips | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.099s |
6 | Sacha Fenestraz | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.126s |
7 | Enaam Ahmed | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.133s |
8 | Mick Schumacher | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.135s |
9 | Fabio Scherer | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.135s |
10 | Jehan Daruvala | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.141s |
11 | Sebastian Fernandez | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.170s |
12 | Ralf Aron | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.222s |
13 | Marcus Armstrong | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.262s |
14 | Robert Shwartzman | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.287s |
15 | Jonathan Aberdein | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.298s |
16 | Nikita Troitskiy | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.403s |
17 | Marino Sato | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.416s |
18 | Artem Petrov | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.548s |
19 | Ben Hingeley | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.561s |
20 | Devlin Defrancesco | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.771s |
21 | Ameya Vaidyanathan | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.872s |
22 | Julian Hanses | ma-con | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.940s |
23 | Keyvan Andres | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1.244s |
24 | Sophia Florsch | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1.287s |
Day two afternoon results
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Juri Vips | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m27.249s |
2 | Dan Ticktum | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.039s |
3 | Sebastian Fernandez | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.213s |
4 | Enaam Ahmed | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.330s |
5 | Jehan Daruvala | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.406s |
6 | Ralf Aron | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.423s |
7 | Marino Sato | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.441s |
8 | Guanyu Zhou | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.469s |
9 | Ferdinand Habsburg | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.475s |
10 | Fabio Scherer | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.518s |
11 | Artem Petrov | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.542s |
12 | Robert Shwartzman | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.552s |
13 | Sacha Fenestraz | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.573s |
14 | Nikita Troitskiy | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.597s |
15 | Marcus Armstrong | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.622s |
16 | Devlin Defrancesco | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.632s |
17 | Jonathan Aberdein | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 0.639s |
18 | Mick Schumacher | PREMA Theodore Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.674s |
19 | Alex Palou | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.684s |
20 | Ben Hingeley | Hitech Grand Prix | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.684s |
21 | Sophia Florsch | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 0.908s |
22 | Julian Hanses | ma-con | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1.159s |
23 | Keyvan Andres | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1.388s |
24 | Ameya Vaidyanathan | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1.454s |
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