Boschung tops final session, Lundgaard fastest overall at Bahrain F2 test
Campos Racing’s Ralph Boschung topped the final session of the FIA Formula 2 Championship pre-season test at Bahrain.


The Swiss driver, sporting a special tribute livery of his car to Campos Racing’s recently deceased founder Adrian Campos, clocked a 1m44.095s time, which proved enough to end the session fastest.
Boschung emerged at the top of the timesheets at the end of the first hour having posted a 1m47.100s, before going on to lower the benchmark further in the final 10 minutes.
Team-mate Gianluca Petecof and Williams Formula 1 test driver Roy Nissany (DAMS) fired in late efforts to slot into second and third respectively. Petecof’s personal best was 0.632s shy of Boschung.
While Boschung took the spoils in the final session of the there-day test, it was ART Grand Prix’s Christian Lundgaard who proved fastest overall.
The Dane’s 1m41.697s effort set midway through Tuesday’s morning session, during a qualifying run, was the time to beat for the rest of the field.
Lundgaard’s lap was only 0.218s shy of the pole position time set by Callum Ilott at last year’s championship round at the Sakhir circuit.

Christian Lundgaard, ART Grand Prix
Photo by: Formula Motorsport Ltd
Race simulations were the order for the final three hour session with only a few drivers venturing out for late flying laps.
Prema Racing’s Robert Shwartzman was fourth fastest in the afternoon running although he was the first of a bunch of runners that elected against going for a late fast lap. His respective time logged during a race run was some 2.241s adrift of the pacesetter Boschung.
MP Motorsport's Lirim Zendeli ended up fifth ahead of the second Prema of FIA Formula 3 champion Oscar Piastri.
Liam Lawson (Hitech Grand Prix) spent the first half of the session in the pits before going on to post a time good enough for seventh.
Fellow FIA F3 graduates Theo Pourchaire (ART Grand Prix) and Richard Verschoor (MP Motorsport) were eighth and ninth, while Charouz Racing’s Guilherme Samaia rounded out the top 10.
The morning pacesetter Marcus Armstrong (DAMS) was 11th fastest, while Lundgaard, who topped the times overall, was down in 18th position.
The teams will return to the circuit for the F2 championship season opener at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 26-28 March.
Bahrain F2 test results - Day 3, Session 2
Cla | # | Driver | Team | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | Mph | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 21 | 59 | 1'44.905 | 185.722 | |||||
2 | 20 | 55 | 1'45.537 | 0.632 | 0.632 | 184.610 | |||
3 | 16 | 60 | 1'46.104 | 1.199 | 0.567 | 183.623 | |||
4 | 1 | 53 | 1'47.146 | 2.241 | 1.042 | 181.837 | |||
5 | 12 | 60 | 1'47.307 | 2.402 | 0.161 | 181.565 | |||
6 | 2 | 53 | 1'47.326 | 2.421 | 0.019 | 181.532 | |||
7 | 7 | 39 | 1'47.409 | 2.504 | 0.083 | 181.392 | |||
8 | 10 | 42 | 1'47.426 | 2.521 | 0.017 | 181.363 | |||
9 | 11 | 57 | 1'47.598 | 2.693 | 0.172 | 181.073 | |||
10 | 15 | 43 | 1'47.698 | 2.793 | 0.100 | 180.905 | |||
11 | 17 | 61 | 1'47.891 | 2.986 | 0.193 | 180.582 | |||
12 | 22 | HWA Racelab | 39 | 1'47.893 | 2.988 | 0.002 | 180.578 | ||
13 | 5 | 64 | 1'47.965 | 3.060 | 0.072 | 180.458 | |||
14 | 6 | 61 | 1'48.128 | 3.223 | 0.163 | 180.186 | |||
15 | 8 | 39 | 1'48.332 | 3.427 | 0.204 | 179.847 | |||
16 | 3 | 50 | 1'48.446 | 3.541 | 0.114 | 179.658 | |||
17 | 23 | HWA Racelab | 36 | 1'48.456 | 3.551 | 0.010 | 179.641 | ||
18 | 9 | 41 | 1'48.487 | 3.582 | 0.031 | 179.590 | |||
19 | 4 | 43 | 1'48.613 | 3.708 | 0.126 | 179.381 | |||
20 | 24 | 41 | 1'48.630 | 3.725 | 0.017 | 179.353 | |||
21 | 25 | 41 | 1'48.926 | 4.021 | 0.296 | 178.866 | |||
22 | 14 | 33 | 1'50.048 | 5.143 | 1.122 | 177.042 |

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