Thai driver Sandy Stuvik took his fourth consecutive EuroFormula Open pole position in a tightly fought qualifying session around the Circuito de Jerez in Spain. The RP Motorsport driver set a best lap time of 1:37.354s to pip team-mate and current championship leader Artur Janosz by 0.064s.
Proving how close the series is in 2014, Yarin Stern was third for Team West-Tec F3 only 0.087s off Stuvik’s pole time, while fourth placed Alex Palou, winner of the opening round of the season at the Nurburgring was also under a tenth of a second adrift for Campos Racing.
Russian John Simonyan was fifth for RP Motorsport and was the last of the drivers to set a best lap time underneath 1:38s. The other two Campos Racing entries of Briton Sean Walkinshaw and Russian Konstantin Tereschenko will line-up sixth and seventh.
Eighth on the grid will be German Nicholas Pohler for Team West-Tec F3, ahead of the leading Emilio de Villota Motorsport entry of Japanese driver Yu Kanamaru. Both Pohler and Kanamaru set identical lap times of 1:38.195s but Pohler will start ahead after setting the time first. The second Thai driver on the grid Tanart Sathienthirakul completed the top ten for Team West-Tec F3.
Race 1 begins later this afternoon with the championship battle between Janosz and Stuvik set to resume. Only one point covers the two RP Motorsport drivers heading into the race.
Jerez Race 1 Qualifying Result
POS | DRIVER | NAT | TEAM | TIME |
1 | Sandy Stuvik | THA | RP Motorsport | 1:37.354 |
2 | Artur Janosz | POL | RP Motorsport | 1:37.418 |
3 | Yarin Stern | ISR | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:37.441 |
4 | Alex Palou | ESP | Campos Racing | 1:37.464 |
5 | John Simonyan | RUS | RP Motorsport | 1:37.933 |
6 | Sean Walkinshaw | GBR | Campos Racing | 1:38.053 |
7 | Konstantin Tereschenko | RUS | Campos Racing | 1:38.096 |
8 | Nicholas Pohler | GER | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:38.195 |
9 | Yu Kanamaru | JAP | Emilio de Villota Motorsport | 1:38.195 |
10 | Tanart Sathienthirakul | THA | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:38.223 |
11 | Andres Saravia | GTM | RP Motorsport | 1:38.273 |
12 | Che-One Lim | KOR | Emilio de Villota Motorsport | 1:38.366 |
13 | Gerardo Nieto | MEX | DAV Racing | 1:38.414 |
14 | Cameron Twynham | GBR | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:38.485 |
15 | Wei Fung Thong | HKG | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:38.640 |
16 | Henrique Baptista | BRZ | DAV Racing | 1:39.064 |
17 | Costantino Peroni | ITA | Corbetta Competizioni | 1:39.189 |
18 | William Barbosa | COL | Corbetta Competizioni | 1:39.274 |
19 | Saud T. Al Faisal | SAU | RP Motorsport | 1:39.403 |