Martins quickest again as Barcelona test ends

For the second day in succession, Victor Martins was the fastest man on track as the FIA Formula 3 teams completed their two-day pre-season test in Barcelona.

The 2020 Formula Renault Eurocup champion shaved another tenth off his time sheet topping lap of yesterday’s afternoon to ensure he leaves the Catalan circuit as the man to beat.

The MP Motorsport and Alpine Academy driver set a 1:31:636 in today’s (Thursday’s) morning session to again end the day fastest, but the rest of the pack certainly closed in with Aleksandr Smolyar just over a tenth shy of the Frenchman’s pace.

Smolyar has been impressing for ART and often outperformed his highly-ranked Mercedes Junior teammate Frederik Vesti in testing and did so again with the Dane only eighth.

Jack Doohan continued his fine form having moved to Trident from HWA Racelab ending the day third ahead of Logan Sargeant, who continued to step in for Charouz with two seats still to fill at the Czech team.

Doohan’s teammate Clément Novalak was fifth quickest as he mirrored Doohan’s running for much of the day. Matteo Nannini led the way for HWA in sixth with Ayumu Iwasa sneaking into the top ten in seventh for Hitech GP.

Behind Vesti in eighth came PREMA’s lead driver Dennis Hauger who is tipped for a title challenge this year while Juan Manuel Correa continued his return to racing in tenth for ART.

As temperatures rose in the afternoon, much of the field settled into long runs and that saw the times drop significantly as Calan Williams headed Iwasa, Pierre-Louis Chovet and Roman Stanek in a Jenzer Motorsport and Hitech GP-filled top four. Caio Collet rounded out the top five as Nannini achieved a pair of sixth places for the day. The Italian will remain in Barcelona to take on the three-day FIA Formula 2 test which starts tomorrow.

Pos.	Name	Team	Lap Time
1	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	1:31:636
2	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART	1:31:768
3	Jack Doohan	Trident	1:31:803
4	Logan Sargeant	Charouz	1:31:806
5	Clément Novalak	Trident	1:31:876
6	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	1:31:889
7	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech GP	1:31:919
8	Frederik Vesti	ART	1:31:933
9	Dennis Hauger	PREMA	1:31:999
10	Juan Manuel Correa	ART	1:32:011
11	Jak Crawford	Hitech GP	1:32:029
12	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	1:32:088
13	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	1:32:160
14	Calan Williams	Jenzer	1:32:197
15	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer	1:32:232
16	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	1:32:309
17	Olli Caldwell	PREMA	1:32:331
18	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin	1:32:354
19	David Schumacher	Trident	1:32:396
20	Michael Belov	Charouz	1:32:411
21	Roman Stanek	Hitech GP	1:32:442
22	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA	1:32:545
23	Rafael Villagomez	HWA Racelab	1:32:650
24	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	1:32:659
25	Amaury Cordeel	Campos	1:32:804
26	Ido Cohen	Carlin	1:33:046
27	Reshad De Gerus	Charouz	1:33:085
28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer	1:33:325
29	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos	1:33:489
30	László Tóth	Campos	1:33:621

Pos.	Name	Team	Lap Time
1	Calan Williams	Jenzer	1:32:518
2	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech GP	1:32:988
3	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer	1:33:001
4	Roman Stanek	Hitech GP	1:33:035
5	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	1:33:069
6	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	1:33:400
7	Rafael Villagomez	HWA Racelab	1:33:462
8	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin	1:33:469
9	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	1:33:855
10	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos	1:33:895
11	Amaury Cordeel	Campos	1:33:920
12	Filip Ugran	Jenzer	1:33:999
13	Jak Crawford	Hitech GP	1:34:028
14	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	1:34:254
15	Ido Cohen	Carlin	1:34:486
16	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	1:34:762
17	Frederik Vesti	ART	1:35:628
18	Clément Novalak	Trident	1:35:636
19	Olli Caldwell	PREMA	1:35:671
20	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	1:35:677
21	Dennis Hauger	PREMA	1:35:725
22	Jack Doohan	Trident	1:35:839
23	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA	1:35:843
24	Michael Belov	Charouz	1:35:871
25	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART	1:35:941
26	Logan Sargeant	Charouz	1:35:996
27	David Schumacher	Trident	1:36:005
28	Reshad De Gerus	Charouz	1:36:579
29	László Tóth	Campos	1:36:677
30	Juan Manuel Correa	ART	1:36:770