Boschung tops final session, Lundgaard fastest overall at Bahrain F2 test

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	Ralph Boschung		Campos Racing	59	1'44.905			185.722
2	20	Gianluca Petecof		Campos Racing	55	1'45.537	0.632	0.632	184.610
3	16	Roy Nissany		DAMS	60	1'46.104	1.199	0.567	183.623
4	1	Robert Shwartzman		Prema Powerteam	53	1'47.146	2.241	1.042	181.837
5	12	Lirim Zendeli		MP Motorsport	60	1'47.307	2.402	0.161	181.565
6	2	Oscar Piastri		Prema Powerteam	53	1'47.326	2.421	0.019	181.532
7	7	Liam Lawson		HitechGP	39	1'47.409	2.504	0.083	181.392
8	10	Theo Pourchaire		ART Grand Prix	42	1'47.426	2.521	0.017	181.363
9	11	Richard Verschoor		MP Motorsport	57	1'47.598	2.693	0.172	181.073
10	15	Guilherme Samaia		Charouz Racing System	43	1'47.698	2.793	0.100	180.905
11	17	Marcus Armstrong		DAMS	61	1'47.891	2.986	0.193	180.582
12	22	Matteo Nannini		HWA Racelab	39	1'47.893	2.988	0.002	180.578
13	5	Dan Ticktum		Carlin	64	1'47.965	3.060	0.072	180.458
14	6	Jehan Daruvala		Carlin	61	1'48.128	3.223	0.163	180.186
15	8	Jüri Vips		HitechGP	39	1'48.332	3.427	0.204	179.847
16	3	Guanyu Zhou		UNI-Virtuosi	50	1'48.446	3.541	0.114	179.658
17	23	Alessio Deledda		HWA Racelab	36	1'48.456	3.551	0.010	179.641
18	9	Christian Lundgaard		ART Grand Prix	41	1'48.487	3.582	0.031	179.590
19	4	Felipe Drugovich		UNI-Virtuosi	43	1'48.613	3.708	0.126	179.381
20	24	Bent Viscaal		Trident	41	1'48.630	3.725	0.017	179.353
21	25	Marino Sato		Trident	41	1'48.926	4.021	0.296	178.866
22	14	David Beckmann		Charouz Racing System	33	1'50.048	5.143	1.122	177.042