Euro F3 Hockenheim: Lance Stroll, Joel Eriksson share final poles
Williams Formula 1 protege Lance Stroll and BMW junior Joel Eriksson shared the pole positions from the second qualifying session of the Formula 3 European Championship finale at Hockenheim
Champion Stroll, who also claimed pole for race one after David Beckmann's post-session exclusion, lapped his Prema Powerteam Dallara-Mercedes 0.179 seconds faster than Carlin's F3 debutant Jake Hughes to take the top spot for race two.
The Canadian emerged from a traffic-infested session to put in one super-fast lap, but his second-best lap was good only for fifth fastest in the order for race three.
"I felt that lap [the fastest one] was on it," said Stroll, "but I didn't have the opportunity to lay down a second laptime.
"I was blocked and in traffic - then I got free again but there was no rear grip."
Eriksson, who was a lowly ninth in first qualifying after his own traffic dramas, was happy to bounce back to take third fastest overall and pole for race three in his Motopark Dallara-Volkswagen.
Hughes, meanwhile, finds himself on the front row for races two and three to add to this third on the grid for race one, completing a highly impressive first day in F3 competition for the GP3 race winner.
"Obviously the Carlin car is mega - as if anyone doubted it," said the Briton.
Motopark's Red Bull junior Sergio Sette Camara was fourth fastest overall from Callum Ilott (Van Amersfoort Racing), Nick Cassidy (Prema) and the grid-penalised George Russell (Hitech GP), the quartet covered by just 0.051s.
On second-best times, Ilott moves up to third, with Sette Camara sixth, Russell seventh and Cassidy eighth.
Beckmann could not quite back up his first-session pace but ended up a nevertheless competitive eighth fastest in his Mucke Motorsport car, although he drops out of the top 10 on second-best laps.
Double Formula Renault champion Lando Norris (Carlin) and Prema's Ralf Aron completed the top 10, but Norris's second-best lap - just 0.005s slower than his best - moves him up to fourth in the classification for race three.
Norris felt he drove much better than in opening qualifying and without a mistake he could have been in the top three, but he will start from the pitlane for all the races anyway.
Moving into the top 10 on second-best laps were Anthoine Hubert (VAR) and Hitech's guesting F3 veteran Alexander Sims.
RACE TWO QUALIFYING TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m31.733s | - |
2 | Jake Hughes | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m31.912s | 0.179s |
3 | Joel Eriksson | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m31.968s | 0.235s |
4 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.041s | 0.308s |
5 | Callum Ilott | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.050s | 0.317s |
6 | Nick Cassidy | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.090s | 0.357s |
7 | George Russell | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.092s | 0.359s |
8 | David Beckmann | kfzteile Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.132s | 0.399s |
9 | Lando Norris | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.144s | 0.411s |
10 | Ralf Aron | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.152s | 0.419s |
11 | Anthoine Hubert | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.181s | 0.448s |
12 | Niko Kari | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.258s | 0.525s |
13 | Maximilian Guenther | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.346s | 0.613s |
14 | Alexander Sims | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.393s | 0.660s |
15 | Dan Ticktum | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.411s | 0.678s |
16 | Nikita Mazepin | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.491s | 0.758s |
17 | Guanyu Zhou | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.577s | 0.844s |
18 | Ben Barnicoat | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.608s | 0.875s |
19 | Harrison Newey | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.730s | 0.997s |
20 | Mikkel Jensen | kfzteile Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.799s | 1.066s |
21 | Pedro Piquet | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.822s | 1.089s |
22 | Andy Chang | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/NBE | 1m34.295s | 2.562s |
RACE THREE QUALIFYING TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Joel Eriksson | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.057s | - |
2 | Jake Hughes | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.071s | 0.014s |
3 | Callum Ilott | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.081s | 0.024s |
4 | Lando Norris | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.149s | 0.092s |
5 | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.180s | 0.123s |
6 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.181s | 0.124s |
7 | George Russell | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.197s | 0.140s |
8 | Nick Cassidy | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.251s | 0.194s |
9 | Anthoine Hubert | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.278s | 0.221s |
10 | Alexander Sims | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.418s | 0.361s |
11 | David Beckmann | kfzteile Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.443s | 0.386s |
12 | Niko Kari | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.462s | 0.405s |
13 | Dan Ticktum | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.467s | 0.410s |
14 | Nikita Mazepin | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.493s | 0.436s |
15 | Ralf Aron | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.644s | 0.587s |
16 | Ben Barnicoat | Hitech GP | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.646s | 0.589s |
17 | Guanyu Zhou | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.666s | 0.609s |
18 | Harrison Newey | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.772s | 0.715s |
19 | Pedro Piquet | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.855s | 0.798s |
20 | Maximilian Guenther | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.875s | 0.818s |
21 | Mikkel Jensen | kfzteile Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.896s | 0.839s |
22 | Andy Chang | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/NBE | 1m34.502s | 2.445s |
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