Beganovic leads Prema 1-2 on second morning of FIA F3 testing

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Dino Beganovic led a Prema one-two on the second morning of post-season FIA Formula 3 testing at Jerez.

The track was super busyt in the first 15 minutes, with day one pacesetter Oliver Goethe initially the driver to beat. Beganovic was second fastest, and Jenzer Motorsport’s Charlie Wurz was third.

Prema pair Gabriele Mini and Beganovic had brought the pace down into the 1m30s after 10 minutes, only 0.053 seconds off the fastest lap from the previous day’s action.

Campos’s Mari Boya split the Prema drivers four minutes later, setting a 1m30.873s, and Trident’s Santiago Ramos went fourth with a 1m31.041s laptime.

More improvements came in half an hour into the three-hour session, with Boya breaking the 1m30s barrier by setting a 1m29.950s. Beganovic was second fastest with a 1m30.085s, with Martinius Stenshorne (Hitech GP), Goethe and Luke Browning within half a second of the pace.

There was less on-track action through the rest of the morning, although Boya was shuffled down to third place late in the first hour as Beganovic set a 1m29.900s and Mini set a 1m29.933s.

Trident’s Leonardo Fornaroli went fourth fastest ahead of Goethe, Stenshorne, PHM Racing’s Taylor Barnard an Luke Browning. Ramos got into ninth place early in the second hour, then 82 minutes in red flags waved due to Rodin Carlin’s Ugo Ugochukwu striking trouble. Browning caused another red flag period over an hour later, then the session was ended four minutes early as red flags waved again as Carlin’s Callum Voisin stopped in sector two.

Morning session results