Ticktum beats Schumacher by 0.001s in second F3 test

Both drivers set their times in the afternoon session, but only lowered Alex Palou's morning benchmark by half a tenth.

The Spaniard led a Hitech GP 1-2 in the morning with Enaam Ahmed less than a tenth behind Palou's 1m23.087s time.

That effort was beaten by Schumacher an hour into the afternoon session, who stood on top of the timesheets for the majority of the practice.

However, Motopark driver Ticktum's best time of 1m23.037s, which he set with 15 minutes left on the clock, was exactly 0.001s faster.

Palou and Ahmed ended up third and fourth quickest overall, the latter narrowly outpacing another Prema driver, Guan Yu Zhou.

Zhou, who will spend his third season in the series this year, led two of his teammates, Ralf Aron and rookie Robert Shwartzman.

Motopark duo Marino Sato and Juri Vips were separated by 0.003s in eighth and ninth places as Sacha Fenestraz was the top Carlin driver in 10th.

Although not yet officially confirmed to race in F3 this year, Sophia Floersch drove for Van Amersfoort Racing in the test but ended both sessions last.

The test will continue and conclude on Tuesday.

Day 1 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	Morning	Afternoon
1	Dan Ticktum	Motopark	1:23.281	1:23.037
2	Mick Schumacher	Prema	1:23.416	1:23.038
3	Alex Palou	Hitech	1:23.087	1:23.334
4	Enaam Ahmed	Hitech	1:23.155	1:23.535
5	Guan Yu Zhou	Prema	1:23.585	1:23.173
6	Ralf Aron	Prema	1:23.515	1:23.221
7	Robert Shwartzman	Prema	1:23.519	1:23.283
8	Marino Sato	Motopark	1:23.271	1:23.390
9	Juri Vips	Motopark	1:23.393	1:23.475
10	Sacha Fenestraz	Carlin	1:23.706	1:23.452
11	Fabio Scherer	Motopark	1:23.462	1:23.653
12	Jonathan Aberdein	Motopark	1:23.481	1:23.633
13	Marcus Armstrong	Prema	1:23.698	1:23.511
14	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:23.515	1:23.535
15	Artem Petrov	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:23.631	1:23.524
16	Sebastian Fernandez	Motopark	1:23.602	1:23.753
17	Ferdinand Habsburg	Carlin	1:23.710	1:23.887
18	Ben Hingeley	Hitech	1:23.724	1:24.023
19	Keyvan Andres Soori	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:24.718	1:23.739
20	Devlin DeFrancesco	Carlin	1:23.944	1:23.821
21	Nikita Troitskiy	Carlin	1:23.978	1:23.865
22	Julian Hanses	ma-con	1:24.810	1:24.092
23	Ameya Vaidyanathan	Carlin	1:24.229	1:24.437
24	Sophia Floersch	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:25.495	1:25.005