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Home Formula 4French F4 Hirsiger and Mawson take poles for French F4 season opener

Hirsiger and Mawson take poles for French F4 season opener

by Gruz David
Photo: Florent Gooden / DPPI

Photo: Florent Gooden / DPPI

15-year-old Felix Hirsiger was fastest in opening qualifying session of the 2014 French F4 season at Le Mans, taking pole for the third race of the weekend.

Hirsiger, who secured the maiden pole position of his career, was 0.15s faster than top karting graduate of the field – Australian Joseph Mawson.

Lasse Sorensen, Marco’s younger brother, and series returnee Amaury Richard qualified on the second row, with Frenchman Bryan Elpitiya, Russian driver Vladimir Atoev and Swede Reuben Kressner taking fifth, sixth and seventh in their respective first qualifying sessions.

17-year-old Valentin Moineault will start the third race of the season in eighth, followed by Finn Simo Laaksonen and Lotus’ karting prodigy Dorian Boccolacci.

The starting order for the first race, meanwhile, was determined by the second-best lap times of the session. As a result, Mawson grabbed pole for his first car race, beating Hirsiger by more than a tenth. Sorensen and Elpitiya took third and fourth respectively, while Moineault will start from fifth – three places better than his spot for race three. The top ten is rounded out by Richard, Atoev, Laaksonen, Boccolacci and Russian karting champion Denis Bulatov.

Session results
Pos. Race 3 Time Pos. Race 1 Time
1 Felix Hirsiger 1:41.617 1 Joseph Mawson 1:41.818
2 Joseph Mawson 1:41.775 2 Felix Hirsiger 1:41.958
3 Lasse Sorensen 1:41.877 3 Lasse Sorensen 1:42.040
4 Amaury Richard 1:41.968 4 Bryan Elpitiya 1:42.050
5 Bryan Elpitiya 1:42.002 5 Valentin Moineault 1:42.172
6 Vladimir Atoev 1:42.047 6 Amaury Richard 1:42.362
7 Reuben Kressner 1:42.087 7 Vladimir Atoev 1:42.470
8 Valentin Moineault 1:42.121 8 Simo Laaksonen 1:42.530
9 Simo Laaksonen 1:42.212 9 Dorian Boccolacci 1:42.541
10 Dorian Boccolacci 1:42.357 10 Denis Bulatov 1:42.766
11 Niclas Nylund 1:42.656 11 David Droux 1:42.819
12 David Droux 1:42.673 12 Erwan Jule 1:42.854
13 Erwan Jule 1:42.722 13 Reuben Kressner 1:42.885
14 Denis Bulatov 1:42.740 14 Valentin Hasse-Clot 1:42.902
15 Valentin Hasse-Clot 1:42.885 15 Niclas Nylund 1:43.047
16 Gjergj Haxhiu 1:43.088 16 Juan Manuel Jimenez 1:43.385
17 Juan Manuel Jimenez 1:43.306 17 Gjergj Haxhiu 1:43.485
18 Axel Matus 1:44.005 18 Joao Carvalho 1:44.147
19 Joao Carvalho 1:44.071 19 Axel Matus 1:44.365
20 Tom Soubiron 1:44.657 20 Tom Soubiron 1:45.311
21 Hugo Sugnot-Darniche 1:45.377 21 Hugo Sugnot-Darniche 1:45.478
22 Anouck Abadie 1:51.248 22 Anouck Abadie 1:52.296
23 Paul Hokfelt Jr No Time 23 Paul Hokfelt Jr No Time