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Barcelona F3: Shwartzman bags first pole of 2019

Ferrari Formula 1 junior Robert Shwartzman delivered a spectacular lap to score pole position in the first qualifying session of the new FIA Formula 3 Championship in Barcelona.

Jack Benyon

Published: May 10, 2019, 4:50 PM

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Robert Shwartzman, PREMA Racing

Reigning European F3 champion team Prema elected to run all three of its cars in the mid-session gap in a bid to avoid traffic, with SMP Racing-backed driver Shwartzman delivering a lap four tenths clear of the opposition.

But Formula Renault Eurocup runner-up Christian Lundgaard snatched provisional pole away from the Russian with a few minutes left on the clock.

Lundgaard looked to have given dominant GP3 team ART Grand Prix the inaugural pole for F3's new era, but Shwartzman started his final lap just before the chequered flag flew and managed a 1m31.975s, 0.108s up on the Dane.

Marcus Armstrong and Jehan Daruvala – also of Prema – headed out late, and rose up the order to take third and fourth places, 0.452s and 0.554s off pole respectively.

Behind Daruvala, Logan Sargeant steered the best of the Carlin cars to a top five, ahead of MP Motorsport’s Simo Laaksonen and ART’s David Beckmann.

Reigning Eurocup champion Max Fewtrell was eighth in the third of the ART machines, ahead of late improvers Alex Peroni (MP Motorsport) and Yuki Tsunoda (Jenzer).

Hitech GP had a tough session, with Red Bull-backed Juri Vips its highest finisher in 11th, while Leonardo Pulcini struggled to 18th place after a late start to his session.

HWA's highest-placed driver was Euroformula Open runner-up Bent Viscaal in 16th. Jake Hughes was 2.1 seconds off the pace in 29th, but reportedly without a working DRS on his car.

Session results:

Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 28 Russian Federation Robert Shwartzman Italy Prema Powerteam 1'31.975 2 3 Denmark Christian Lundgaard France ART Grand Prix 1'32.083 0.108 3 26 New Zealand Marcus Armstrong Italy Prema Powerteam 1'32.427 0.452 4 27 India Jehan Daruvala Italy Prema Powerteam 1'32.529 0.554 5 31 United States Logan Sargeant United Kingdom Carlin 1'32.660 0.685 6 5 Finland Simo Laaksonen Netherlands MP Motorsport 1'32.755 0.780 7 1 Germany David Beckmann France ART Grand Prix 1'32.829 0.854 8 2 Max Fewtrell France ART Grand Prix 1'32.857 0.882 9 23 Australia Alex Peroni Spain Campos Racing 1'32.863 0.888 10 14 Japan Yuki Tsunoda Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 1'32.875 0.900 11 21 Estonia Jüri Vips United Kingdom HitechGP 1'32.876 0.901 12 19 Finland Niko Kari Italy Trident 1'32.878 0.903 13 18 Brazil Pedro Piquet Italy Trident 1'32.880 0.905 14 7 Germany Lirim Zendeli Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 1'32.934 0.959 15 6 Netherlands Richard Verschoor MP Motorsport 1'32.949 0.974 16 10 Bent Viscaal Germany HWA AG 1'33.010 1.035 17 8 Switzerland Fabio Scherer Charouz Racing System 1'33.022 1.047 18 20 Italy Leonardo Pulcini United Kingdom HitechGP 1'33.103 1.128 19 4 Australia Liam Lawson MP Motorsport 1'33.150 1.175 20 30 Brazil Felipe Drugovich Carlin 1'33.313 1.338 21 12 Germany Keyvan Andres Germany HWA AG 1'33.430 1.455 22 22 China Ye Yifei HitechGP 1'33.475 1.500 23 25 Sebastian Fernandez Spain Campos Racing 1'33.508 1.533 24 17 Canada Devlin DeFrancesco Italy Trident 1'33.545 1.570 25 9 South Africa Raoul Hyman Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 1'33.564 1.589 26 15 Russian Federation Artem Petrov Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 1'33.714 1.739 27 16 Germany Andreas Estner Jenzer Motorsport 1'33.962 1.987 28 29 Japan Teppei Natori United Kingdom Carlin 1'34.054 2.079 29 11 Jake Hughes Germany HWA AG 1'34.173 2.198 View full results

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