Hubert completes day 2 morning leading art 1-2 at Paul Ricard

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Anthoine Hubert opened the second day of GP3 Series testing at Le Castellet, France with the fastest lap of the morning session, setting a 1:48.674 to wrest top spot from ART Grand Prix teammate Callum Ilott.

Although overcast, dry weather conditions meant that the teams could start their running immediately on slick Pirelli tyres. Trident was the first team to hit the track, sending out all four cars as soon as the light went green – Ryan Tveter leading the quartet onto the circuit.

The ART trio of Nikita Mazepin, Ilott and Hubert immediately set about trading best times, but after the first half an hour of running, Trident’s Alessio Lorandi sat atop the standings.

It wasn’t long until the front-running cars were lapping faster than yesterday, with Mazepin the first driver to beat the fastest Wednesday time set by Jake Hughes. Hubert was quick to displace his teammate at the top, leading the way after the first hour.

There was something of a lull approaching the midpoint of the session, with teams prioritising longer runs and data assessment rather than chasing outright laptimes. Ilott got the ball rolling once more midway through the morning’s running to break into the 1m48s bracket, holding top spot for almost an hour.

With 40 minutes of the session remaining, Hubert once more returned to head the timesheets with under a tenth in hand over Ilott. The Frenchman remained unchallenged throughout the rest of the morning, once more going into the break on top of the standings.

Ilott remained in second place, and Leonardo Pulcini (Campos Racing) broke ART’s stranglehold on the top three with a late 1:49.051 lap. Mazepin was fourth best ahead of Tatiana Calderon (Jenzer Motorsport), while yesterday’s fastest runner Hughes was sixth best ahead of Lorandi.

Simo Laaksonen (Campos) was eighth ahead of MP Motorsport’s Dorian Boccolacci, while Pedro Piquet rounded out the top 10 having completed a session high of 54 laps.

 

 Pos

Driver

Team

Time

Laps

1

Anthoine Hubert

ART Grand Prix

1:48.674

37

2

Callum Ilott

ART Grand Prix

1:48.761

41

3

Leonardo Pulcini

Campos Racing

1:49.051

37

4

Nikita Mazepin

ART Grand Prix

1:49.180

37

5

Tatiana Calderon

Jenzer Motorsport

1:49.209

38

6

Jake Hughes

ART Grand Prix

1:49.326

31

7

Alessio Lorandi

Trident

1:49.434

53

8

Simo Laaksonen

Campos Racing

1:49.643

37

9

Dorian Boccolacci

MP Motorsport

1:49.721

28

10

Pedro Piquet

Trident

1:49.729

54

11

Julien Falchero

Arden International

1:49.760

40

12

Niko Kari

MP Motorsport

1:49.777

29

13

Giuliano Alesi

Trident

1:49.861

35

14

Ryan Tveter

Trident

1:49.892

48

15

Juan Manuel Correa

Jenzer Motorsport

1:49.902

45

16

Gabriel Aubry

Arden International

1:49.969

35

17

Diego Menchaca

Campos Racing

1.50.017

25

18

David Beckmann

Jenzer Motorsport

1:50.096

45

19

Joey Mawson

Arden International

1:50.146

39

20

Leonard Hoogenboom

MP Motorsport

1:51.132

24

 

source: gp3series.com

 

         

 

 

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