The GP3 Series paddock gathered at the Hungaroring for a two day test mid-season session ahead of Round 2 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria next month. ART’s George Russell was the quickest man of the morning session in a 1:32.159 ahead of teammate Jack Aitken and Dorian Boccolacci.

The proceedings were delayed by one hour to wait for the full medical staff to be operational. As the pitlane went green at 10am local time, all cars fed onto the track to complete their installation laps with Tatiana Calderon the only driver to set a laptime in the opening 45 minutes. On the one hour mark Boccolacci went top, dipping under 1m34s, but Russell found some extra pace to move up to P1, three tenths faster than Alessio Lorandi in P2.

Russell remained top for most of the trouble-free session, improving to break the 1m33s barrier, but with thirty minutes left on the clock Boccolacci temporarily edged him out, going fastest by four hundredths. In the closing stages, Russell went P1 again as Aitken also improved to move up to P2, four tenths slower than his teammate.

At the chequered flag, and behind the top 3, Arjun Maini, Santino Ferrucci, Lorandi, Raoul Hyman, Marcos Siebert, Nirei Fukuzumi and Anthoine Hubert rounded up the top 10. There will be a two-hour break before the action returns at 3pm local time with the pitlane closing at 6pm.

Day 1 Morning results

 

Driver

Team

Laptime

Laps

1.

George Russell

ART Grand Prix

1:32.159

31

2.

Jack Aitken

ART Grand Prix

1:32.654

28

3.

Dorian Boccolacci

Trident

1:32.680

22

4.

Arjun Maini

Jenzer Motorsport

1:32.765

30

5.

Santino Ferrucci

DAMS

1:32.811

34

6.

Alessio Lorandi

Jenzer Motorsport

1:32.864

32

7.

Raoul Hyman

Campos Racing

1:32.913

31

8.

Marcos Siebert

Campos Racing

1:33.014

33

9.

Nirei Fukuzumi

ART Grand Prix

1:33.056

20

10.

Anthoine Hubert

ART Grand Prix

1:33.273

30

11.

Giuliano Alesi

Trident

1:33.303

26

12.

Ryan Tveter

Trident

1:33.352

24

13.

Kevin Jörg

Trident

1:33.384

32

14.

Leonardo Pulcini

Arden International

1:33.694

24

15.

Julien Falchero

Campos Racing

1:33.721

32

16.

Bruno Baptista

DAMS

1:33.876

26

17.

Tatiana Calderon

DAMS

1:34.099

32

18.

Steijn Schothorst

Arden International

1:34.388

22

19.

Niko Kari

Arden International

1:34.609

20

 

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