Hungaroring F3: Smolyar tops practice ahead of Hauger

The ART Grand Prix driver, who took pole here last year, set a 1m33.112s in the only practice session of the weekend, with the Prema Racing driver, who leads the championship standings, in second setting a 1m33.294s.

David Schumacher, who took his maiden win at the Red Bull Ring, was in third for Trident, three tenths off the pace, with his teammate Clement Novalak in fourth. The third Trident car, driven by Jack Doohan, finished in 17th.

Olli Caldwell (Prema) finished in fifth after taking two podium finishes during the last round at the Red Bull Ring, with the ART of Frederik Vesti in sixth after taking victory at the feature race last time out.

Jake Hughes, who finished seventh in last year’s drivers’ standings, is driving for Carlin in place of Kaylen Frederick this weekend after the American driver injured his thumb in an incident at the Red Bull Ring, and finished seventh.

15 minutes into the session, Vesti was the driver to beat, having set a 1m35.723s to lead the running.

Hauger quickly went top with a 1m35.270s before he was beaten to the top spot by MP Motorsport’s Caio Collet, with a 1m35.001s.

Caldwell was first to break into the 1m34s with 20 minutes left of the session with a 1m34.958s.

With less than five minutes to go, Vesti went fastest, before he was beaten by Caldwell and Smolyar, who eventually took the top spot in Hungary.

Campos Racing's Amaury Cordeel was shown the black and white flag for exceeding track limits at Turn 4, with several other drivers including Calan Williams (Jenzer Motorsport) and Juan Manuel Correa of ART also running wide at the same spot.

Qualifying will take place on Friday afternoon to set the grid for Sunday’s feature race, with the top ten reversed to decide the starting positions for Saturday morning’s first sprint race.

Hungaroring F3 - Practice results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	8	Alexander Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	1'33.112
2	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Powerteam	1'33.294	0.182
3	6	David Schumacher	Trident	1'33.426	0.314
4	5	Clement Novalak	Trident	1'33.449	0.337
5	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Powerteam	1'33.609	0.497
6	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	1'33.615	0.503
7	24	Jake Hughes	Carlin	1'33.691	0.579
8	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	1'33.721	0.609
9	11	Ayumu Iwasa	HitechGP	1'33.743	0.631
10	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA AG	1'33.752	0.640
11	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Powerteam	1'33.814	0.702
12	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	1'33.831	0.719
13	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA AG	1'34.009	0.897
14	27	Johnathan Hoggard	Jenzer Motorsport	1'34.015	0.903
15	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	1'34.257	1.145
16	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	1'34.418	1.306
17	4	Jack Doohan	Trident	1'34.512	1.400
18	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin	1'34.533	1.421
19	10	Jak Crawford	HitechGP	1'34.608	1.496
20	12	Roman Staněk	HitechGP	1'34.696	1.584
21	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	1'34.778	1.666
22	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	1'34.848	1.736
23	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA AG	1'34.896	1.784
24	31	Reshad de	Charouz Racing System	1'35.076	1.964
25	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	1'35.118	2.006
26	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	1'35.318	2.206
27	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	1'35.355	2.243
28	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	1'35.470	2.358
29	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	1'35.636	2.524
30	19	Tijmen van	MP Motorsport	1'36.372	3.260
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