Zandvoort Masters of F3: Sergio Sette Camara fastest in practice
Brazilian Sergio Sette Camara set the fastest time over the two free practice sessions for the Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort


The 17-year-old, who contested a half-season in Brazilian F3 last year before his first full campaign in cars this term, pipped Motopark Dallara-Volkswagen team-mate Markus Pommer and Carlin's George Russell.
Most of the leading times came in the first half of the opening 40-minute session, because the Kumho tyres used for the Masters have a relatively short peak operating window of three or four laps, and nearly everyone elected not to use any more than one set on Friday in order to save rubber for qualifying and the two races.
Sette Camara was on top just before the first of three red flags that interrupted the opening session, and his time remained unbeaten.
"The team has been helping me a lot with my driving - we started the process from nearly zero," he said, "and of course Markus is a great reference.
"Our cars performed well on this track in FIA F3 [in which Pommer won at Zandvoort in July], and they won last year at the Masters on the Kumhos [with Max Verstappen], even if it was with the older car."
Antonio Giovinazzi anchored the timesheets in the first session after causing the first red flag when he lost downforce behind another car and understeered into the gravel trap at the penultimate corner.
But the Italian was ominously comfortable in putting his Carlin machine to the top of the order in the second session, setting a series of laps that at the time were quicker than anyone else could manage.
That was before Arjun Maini had two new left-side tyres fitted to his Van Amersfoort Racing machine, the Indian closing to 0.043 seconds off Giovinazzi.
Sette Camara was third in this session, just ahead of Callum Ilott. English Red Bull Junior Ilott was fourth in the first period too, only for a snapped left-rear wheelrim to pitch him heavily into the barriers at the ultra-fast Scheivlak.
The Carlin F3 team is admittedly well practised in miracle repair jobs this year, but did a sterling job to get Ilott back on track just 15 minutes into the second session.
Another Motopark runner, Nabil Jeffri, was fifth in each session, while Alessio Lorandi, Sam MacLeod and Raoul Hyman finished the day in the overall top 10.
Hyman caused the only red flag of the second session when he spun at Scheivlak, bending a wishbone when he tapped the wall.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.291s | - |
2 | Markus Pommer | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.335s | 0.044s |
3 | George Russell | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.349s | 0.058s |
4 | Callum Ilott | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.520s | 0.229s |
5 | Nabil Jeffri | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.531s | 0.240s |
6 | Alessio Lorandi | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.552s | 0.261s |
7 | Arjun Maini | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.619s | 0.328s |
8 | Sam MacLeod | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.650s | 0.359s |
9 | Raoul Hyman | Team West-Tec | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m32.999s | 0.708s |
10 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m33.066s | 0.775s |
11 | Ryan Tveter | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.788s | 1.497s |
12 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.811s | 1.520s |
13 | Julio Moreno | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/NBE | 1m33.963s | 1.672s |
14 | Felix Serralles | Jo Zeller Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.339s | 2.048s |
15 | Dennis Olsen | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/Threebond | 1m34.574s | 2.283s |
16 | Zhi Cong Li | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.699s | 2.408s |
17 | Yarin Stern | Team West-Tec | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m35.273s | 2.982s |
18 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m36.353s | 4.062s |
PRACTICE TWO TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.504s | - |
2 | Arjun Maini | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.547s | 0.043s |
3 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.769s | 0.265s |
4 | Callum Ilott | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.942s | 0.438s |
5 | Nabil Jeffri | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m32.959s | 0.455s |
6 | George Russell | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.226s | 0.722s |
7 | Sam MacLeod | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.277s | 0.773s |
8 | Alessio Lorandi | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.277s | 0.773s |
9 | Markus Pommer | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.361s | 0.857s |
10 | Ryan Tveter | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m33.433s | 0.929s |
11 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m33.672s | 1.168s |
12 | Dennis Olsen | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/Threebond | 1m33.874s | 1.370s |
13 | Julio Moreno | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/NBE | 1m34.047s | 1.543s |
14 | Felix Serralles | Jo Zeller Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.089s | 1.585s |
15 | Raoul Hyman | Team West-Tec | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.377s | 1.873s |
16 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 1m34.455s | 1.951s |
17 | Yarin Stern | Team West-Tec | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.565s | 2.061s |
18 | Zhi Cong Li | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 1m34.868s | 2.364s |

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