Sergio Sette Camara has claimed the first bragging rights of the 2019 season by topping this morning’s Formula 2 Championship free practice session with a laptime of 1:43.618 at the Bahrain International Circuit at Sakhir, leading a DAMS 1-2 by 0.3 seconds from teammate Nicholas Latifi and Ralph Boschung.

The session opened to the usual hot and sunny conditions, with most of the drivers heading straight out on track to make sure that their cars were ready for the weekend ahead. The opening 15 minutes was mostly about car set-up, with Jordan King, Anthoine Hubert and Nyck de Vries all taking a turn on the top of the timesheets.
 
Sette Câmara grabbed the top spot at the 20 minute mark, with a number of drivers putting in a competitive time as they worked on their qualifying setups, but it wasn’t to last as most of the field returned to the pits for fresh rubber ahead of race runs in the latter stages of the session.
 
Behind the top 3 Luca Ghiotto, Callum Ilott, Guanyu Zhou, de Vries, Louis Delétraz, Juan Manuel Correa and Nobuharu Matsushita rounded out the top half of the grid, and with 12 drivers within 1 second of the top spot this evening’s qualifying session promises to bring more excitement.
 
Formula 2 Free Practice: Sakhir, Bahrain
 
 Pos 
DRIVER
TEAM
LAPTIME
LAPS
1
Sérgio Sette Camâra
DAMS
1:43.618
12
2
Nicholas Latifi
DAMS
1:43.912
14
3
Ralph Boschung
Trident
1:44.178
12
4
Luca Ghiotto
UNI-Virtuosi Racing
1:44.232
13
5
Callum Ilott
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz
1:44.311
14
6
Guanyu Zhou
UNI-Virtuosi Racing
1:44.3231
12
7
Nyck De Vries
ART Grand Prix
1:44.362
17
8
Louis Delétraz
Carlin
1:44.375
13
9
Juan Manuel Correa
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz
1:44.546
14
10
Nobuharu Matsushita
Carlin
1:44.548
16
11
Sean Gelael
PREMA Racing
1:44.573
13
12
Mick Schumacher
PREMA Racing
1:44.595
12
13
Anthoine Hubert
BWT Arden
1:44.834
17
14
Jack Aitken
Campos Racing
1:45.006
15
15
Giuliano Alesi
Trident
1:45.173
15
16
Jordan King
MP Motorsport
1:45.324
16
17
Nikita Mazepin
ART Grand Prix
1:45.572
17
18
Dorian Boccolacci
Campos Racing
1:45.768
17
19
Tatiana Calderon
BWT Arden
1:46.363
14
20
Mahaveer Raghunathan
MP Motorsport
1:46.637
15
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