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Photo: formel3.de
Championship leader Marvin Kirchh?fer led the way in this morning’s free practice session for the ATS Formel 3 Cup at the Sachsenring.
The young German outpaced the field to finish 0.725 seconds up on Brit Emil Bernstorff. Russian Artem Markelov made it a Lotus lockout of the top three positions in third just ahead of Thomas J?ger and Gustavo Menezes.
Swede John Bryant-Meisner was sixth ahead of Jordi Weckx in seventh. EuroInternational’s Nabil Jeffri was eighth with Matteo Cairoli in ninth. Sebastian Balthasar came home tenth to lead the Trophy class.
Practice results
| Pos | Driver? | Team? | Time? | Gap |
| 1 | Marvin Kirchh?fer | Lotus | 1:13.010 | |
| 2 | Emil Bernstorff | Lotus | 1:13.735 | 0.725 |
| 3 | Artem Markelov | Lotus | 1:13.778 | 0.768 |
| 4 | Thomas J?ger | Performance Racing | 1:14.168 | 1.158 |
| 5 | Gustavo Menezes | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:14.250 | 1.240 |
| 6 | John Bryant-Meisner | Performance Racing | 1:14.701 | 1.691 |
| 7 | Jordi Weckx | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:16.045 | 3.035 |
| 8 | Matteo Cairoli | ADM Motorsport | 1:16.369 | 3.359 |
| 9 | Nabil Jeffri | EuroInternational | 1:17.010 | 4.000 |
| 10 | Sebastian Balthasar | GU-Racing | 1:17.522 | 4.512 |
| 11 | Freddy Killensberger | GU-Racing | 1:17.916 | 4.906 |
| 12 | Hubertus-Carlos Vier | TTCmotorsport | 1:19.252 | 6.242 |
| 13 | Sheban Siddiqi | Lotus | 1:20.197 | 7.187 |
| 14 | Maximilian Hackl | Franz Woss Racing | 1:21.849 | 8.839 |
| 15 | Andreas Germann | CR Racing Team | 1:27.014 | 14.004 |