Kiwi Nick Cassidy will start fourth, 13th and tenth in the three FIA European F3 Championship races that take place Friday and Saturday at the Spa-Francorchamp circuit in Belgium. The series plays a support role to the 24 Hours of Spa which starts on Saturday, the latest round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.
Lance Stroll (Prema Powerteam, 2:31.409 minutes) showed a convincing performance in the opening qualifying session at the rain-soaked Belgian Formula 1 circuit of Spa-Francorchamps. In a dominant way, he claimed pole position for the 19th race of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship season. On his fastest lap of the 7.004 kilometres long circuit in the Ardennes, the current leader in the points’ standings was 1.270 seconds faster than second-placed Maximilian Günther (Prema Powerteam, 2:32.679 minutes).
The best-placed rookie, Ben Barnicoat (HitechGP, 2:32.823 minutes) ended up third from Nick Cassidy (Prema Powerteam, 2:32.910 minutes). In fifth place, rookie driver Harrison Newey (Van Amersfoort Racing, 2:32.986 minutes) scored his best FIA Formula 3 European Championship qualifying result to date. The son of Adrien Newey, who is Chief Technical Officer at the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team, ranked ahead of George Russell (HitechGP, 2:33.055 minutes), who was sixth.
In second FIA Formula 3 European Championship qualifying at the 7.004 kilometres long Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, George Russell (HitechGP) showed the best performance and claimed pole position for the 20th race of the season. Joel Eriksson (Motopark) followed in second place from Nikita Mazepin (HitechGP) and Mikkel Jensen (kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport). With third place in the Belgian Ardennes region, the Russian scored his best FIA Formula 3 European Championship qualifying result to date. In the ranking of the second-fastest laps, used to determine the starting grid positions for the third race of a meeting, Russell also came out on top from Eriksson, Ben Barnicoat (HitechGP) and Callum Ilott (Van Amersfoort Racing).
In the classification of the second-fastest laps, George Russell (2:12.156 minutes) also came out on top. The other top ten slots went to Joel Eriksson (2:12.374 minutes), Ben Barnicoat (2:12.654 minutes), Callum Ilott (2:12.748 minutes), Anthoine Hubert (2:12.800 minutes), Nikita Mazepin (2:12.817 minutes), David Beckmann (2:12.830 minutes), Maximilian Günther (2:12.988 minutes), Lance Stroll (Prema Powerteam, 2:13.148 minutes), and Nick Cassidy (Prema Powerteam, 2:12.264 minutes).
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