PREMA Theodore Racing continued to move full steam ahead at Red Bull Ring. In the penultimate round of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, the Italian squad delivered another spectacular result in qualifying 1, locking out the top-3 and celebrating the third straight pole for Mick Schumacher.
The 19-year-old German made another step in his exciting chase for the championship at the Austrian venue, and posted a sensational lap to top his closest contender by more than two tenths of a second. For PREMA Theodore Racing, this is the 12th pole position of the season and a good way to head into the first day of racing at the Styrian venue.
Ending up behind Schumacher were the team’s two Ferrari Driver Academy-supported rookies, Robert Shwartzman and Marcus Armstrong. Eventually, the Russian got the nod on his team-mate by just 4 hundreds of a second.
“The car is good and overall third place is a good way to start the weekend,” commented Armstrong. I also had a great lap deleted and I’m not sure I did something wrong. But anyway we are competitive and definitely can’t complain.”
It was a tougher day than expected for Ralf Aron and Guanyu Zhou. The Estonian suffered for some balance issues, while the Chinese racer also struggled a bit with traffic. In the end, they finished in P10 and P11 respectively.
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