David claims pole for Euroformula’s Monza title decider

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Motopark’s Yevan David topped qualifying for Euroformula’s season finale at Monza, comfortably faster than his title rivals.

There were 12 drivers who took part. Enzo Yeh stayed with BVM Racing while Nielsen Racing had Luca Viisoreanu join its line-up and Stylianos Kolovos replace Theo Micouris who, along with Yeh, had debuted last time out at Barcelona.

Romanian racer Viisoreanu is a single-seater sophomore who came 15th in Formula 4 Central European Zone and 24th in Italian F4 this year.

Greek teenager Kolovos has raced OK class karts since 2024, coming 24th in WSK’s Champions Cup, 26th in its Euro Series, 54th in the Champions of the Future series and 62nd in CIK-FIA World Championship.

The car racing debutant accrued some crucial mileage in Thursday’s pre-event test, in which Jose Garfias set a 1m42.599s to lead Motopark team-mate and title rival Michael Shin by 0.244 seconds. Yeh was third, Viisoreanu was 1.118s back in seventh and Kolovos was 3.571s off the pace.

Free practice followed on Friday, and first place was disputed by Yeh and team-mate Tymek Kucharczyk through FP1.

Kucharczyk set a 1m42.666s late on to be fastest by 0.611s, with Viisoreanu a further 0.045s behind Yeh. Motopark’s Diego de la Torre was 1.291s off the pace in fourth.

Seven different drivers spent time on top during FP2, and David was first to beat the benchmark from FP1 with a 1m42.632s. Two laps later he improved to 1m42.537s, but could find no more pace while Kucharczyk beat him by 0.089s then improved again to 1m42.222s.

Kucharczyk also then could go no faster in his remaining flying laps, and Shin got within 0.061s of him on his penultimate lap. Motopark’s Everett Stack was fourth, 0.489s back, and Garfias completed a top five covered by half a second. Kolovos ended the day 4.487s off the pace, with he and Viisoreanu not improving on their FP1 times.

Stack set the pace in qualifying on Saturday morning, before David posted his first flying lap. Later on Yeh moved to the top, then Nielsen’s Ed Pearson set a 1m43.675s that made him fastest by 0.139s.

At the 10-minute mark Stack returned to provisional pole, lapping in 1m43.505s, while the title contenders languished down the order. David was fourth, 0.446s back, and rivals Garfias, Kucharczyk and Shin were all over two seconds off the pace outside the top eight.

It was David who raised his game first, beating Stack by 0.468s. Two laps later he improved further to 1m42.340s, then after the chequered flag sealed the deal with a 1m41.842s lap.

With six minutes remaining, Kucharczyk had got up to second but was 0.867s slower than David, with Shin and Garfias closely matched and a second off in fourth and sixth.

Kucharczyk then reduced David’s advantage to 0.282s before his last lap, and while he also improved on his last effort he qualified 0.694s behind.

Shin was 0.817s away from pole in third, and Garfias was fifth. Kolovos trailed by 4.627s on his debut.

Qualifying results