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Vitor Baptista scores maiden Euroformula Open pole on wet track

by Gruz David
written by Gruz David
Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Brazilian Vitor Baptista was fastest in the qualifying session for Saturday’s Euroformula Open race at Paul Ricard.

The RP driver was only four hundredths of a second faster than one of the season opener’s race-winners Alessio Rovera, who switched from DAV to BVM this weekend.

Dzhon Simonyan had his best time set early in the session, which was run under wet conditions. Although he was unable to improve towards the end, he still managed to finish in third.

Mexican Diego Menchaca was fourth fastest, closely edging out RP’s Damiano Fioravanti and West-Tec’s Tanart Sathenthirakul.

Yu Kanamaru and Konstantin Tereshchenko will only start seventh and eighth despite their respective championship positions of third and first.

The top ten was completed by Yarin Stern and Leonardo Pulcini.

Qualifying results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport 2:18.144 12
2 Alessio Rovera BVM Racing 2:18.188 0.044 13
3 Dzhon Simonyan RP Motorsport 2:18.377 0.233 12
4 Diego Menchaca Campos Racing 2:18.741 0.597 13
5 Damiano Fioravanti RP Motorsport 2:18.826 0.682 13
6 Tanart Sathienthirakul Team West-Tec F3 2:18.894 0.750 13
7 Yu Kanamaru EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 2:19.414 1.270 12
8 Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing 2:19.487 1.343 12
9 Yarin Stern Team West-Tec F3 2:19.533 1.389 13
10 Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing 2:19.781 1.637 13
11 Igor Walilko RP Motorsport 2:19.821 1.677 13
12 Andres Saravia RP Motorsport 2:20.546 2.402 13
13 Henrique Baptista Campos Racing 2:20.699 2.555 11
14 Antoni Ptak RP Motorsport 2:20.701 2.557 12
15 Luis Michael Dorrbecker EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 2:21.108 2.964 11
16 William Barbosa BVM Racing 2:21.504 3.360 13
17 Ahmad Al Ghanem Campos Racing 2:22.201 4.057 12
18 Jose Manuel Vilalta EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 2:23.011 4.867 13