Lotus Junior driver Esteban Ocon continued his strong start to the Hungaroring FIA European Formula 3 Championship weekend by taking Pole Position for race 1. The Prema Powerteam driver’s time of 1:35.585s beat Jagonya Ayam with Carlin’s British racer Tom Blomqvist to top spot by the smallest of margins – 0.084s.
Dutchman Max Verstappen was the best of the rest in third place for Van Amersfoort Racing, ahead of fellow series rookie Antonio Fuoco in the second Prema Powerteam machine. Lucas Auer and Felix Rosenqvist were fifth and sixth for Mücke Motorsport with times only 0.022s apart.
Seventh went to the first of Blomqvist’s Jagonya Ayam with Carlin team-mates Antonio Giovinazzi, while the leading Carlin driver was Jordan King in eighth. Gustavo Menezes continued a stronger showing this weekend for Van Amersfoort Racing by qualifying ninth, his best ever qualifying position in Euro F3, while the top ten was rounded out by Felix Serralles in the leading Team West-Tec F3 machine.
Twenty-three drivers set times in the qualifying session, but both Jake Dennis of Carlin and Nicholas Latifi of Prema Powerteam did not, and will have to start at the back of the grid.
Hungaroring Race 1 Qualifying Times
POS | DRIVER | NAT | TEAM | TIME |
1 | Esteban Ocon | FRA | Prema Powerteam | 1:35.585 |
2 | Tom Blomqvist | GBR | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | 1:35.669 |
3 | Max Verstappen | NED | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:35.881 |
4 | Antonio Fuoco | ITA | Prema Powerteam | 1:36.063 |
5 | Lucas Auer | AUT | Mücke Motorsport | 1:36.196 |
6 | Felix Rosenqvist | SWE | Mücke Motorsport | 1:36.218 |
7 | Antonio Giovinazzi | ITA | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | 1:36.332 |
8 | Jordan King | GBR | Carlin | 1:36.347 |
9 | Gustavo Menezes | USA | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:36.380 |
10 | Felix Serralles | PUE | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:36.586 |
11 | Dennis van de Laar | NED | Prema Powerteam | 1:36.692 |
12 | Sean Galael | INO | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | 1:36.736 |
13 | Roy Nissany | ISR | Mücke Motorsport | 1:36.786 |
14 | Jules Szymkowiak | NED | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:36.953 |
15 | Alexander Toril | ESP | ThreeBond with T-Sport | 1:36.969 |
16 | Mitch Gilbert | AUS | Fortec Motorsport | 1:37.111 |
17 | Tatiana Calderon | COL | Jo Zeller Racing | 1:37.156 |
18 | John Bryant-Meisner | SWE | Fortec Motorsport | 1:37.293 |
19 | Felipe Guimaraes | BRZ | Double R Racing | 1:37.325 |
20 | Hector Hurst | GBR | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:37.377 |
21 | Richard Goddard | AUS | ThreeBond with T-Sport | 1:37.496 |
22 | Michele Beretta | ITA | EuroInternational | 1:37.866 |
23 | Sandro Zeller | SWI | Jo Zeller Racing | 1:37.891 |