George Russell quickest in day 1 morning session

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