Skip to main content

Sign up for free

  • Get quick access to your favorite articles

  • Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers

  • Make your voice heard with article commenting.

Autosport Plus

Discover premium content
Subscribe

Perez quickest in practice at Croft

Sergio Perez was quickest out of the blocks in the second British Formula 3 weekend of the season at Croft today

The T-Sport driver set the fastest time in today's first practice session, just 0.017 seconds ahead of joint championship leader Marcus Ericsson.

Brendon Hartley was third quickest despite an off towards the end of the session, with his Carlin Motorsport teammate Sam Abay fourth.

Nick Tandy again led the Mygale charge for JTR in fifth place, with Australian John Martin completing the top six for Raikkonen Robertson Racing.

Andy Meyrick led the National Class runners in 13th place, while Oliver Oakes and Viktor Jensen were 20th and 25th respectively on their first outings of the season.

A second practice session will follow later this afternoon before qualifying on Saturday morning.

Pos Driver               Team          Car      Time      Laps
 1. Sergio Perez         T-Sport       D/H      1:12.525    20
 2. Marcus Ericsson      Fortec        D/M      1:12.542    25
 3. Brendon Hartley      Carlin        D/M      1:12.624    25
 4. Sam Abay             Carlin        D/M      1:12.711    29
 5. Nick Tandy           JTR           M/M      1:12.743    20
 6. John Martin          Double R      D/M      1:12.779    21
 7. Jaime Alguersuari    Carlin        D/M      1:12.823    29
 8. Sebastian Hohenthal  Fortec        D/M      1:12.911    26
 9. Michael Devaney      Ultimate      M/M      1:12.936    14
10. Alistair Jackson     Double R      D/M      1:13.054    23
11. Max Chilton          Hitech        D/M      1:13.131    22
12. Atte Mustonen        Double R      D/M      1:13.137    23
13. Andy Meyrick         Carlin (N)    D/H      1:13.231    24
14. Oliver Turvey        Carlin        D/M      1:13.300    27
15. Henry Arundel        Double R      D/M      1:13.305    24
16. Ricardo Teixeira     Ultimate      M/M      1:13.340    25
17. Walter Grubmuller    Hitech        D/M      1:13.386    24
18. Esteban Guerrieri    Ultimate      M/M      1:13.405    19
19. Jay Bridger          Fluid (N)     D/H      1:13.503    23
20. Oliver Oakes         Eurotek       D/M      1:14.018    18
21. Salman Al-Khalifa    T-Sport (N)   D/H      1:14.067    24
22. Steven Guerrero      T-Sport (N)   D/H      1:14.071    25
23. Stefan Wilson        Fluid (N)     D/H      1:14.272    19
24. Hywel Lloyd          CF (N)        D/H      1:14.501    23
25. Viktor Jensen        Nexa          D/H      1:14.834    22
26. Craig Reiff          Nexa (N)      D/H      1:15.233    23
27. Kristjan Einar       Carlin (N)    D/H      1:17.169    17
28. Niall Quinn          Loctite (N)   D/H      1:17.445    10

(D/M = Dallara Mercedes, M/M = Mygale Mercedes, D/H = Dallara Mugen-Honda) 

Previous article Ericsson tops Rockingham test
Next article Abay dominates second Croft practice

Top Comments