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Drudi and Maisano share Italian F4 poles at Monza

by Aditya Banerjee
Photo: ACI Sport

Photo: ACI Sport

Mattia Drudi and Brandon Maisano secured pole positions in the two qualifying sessions in round six of the 2014 Italian F4 season at Monza.

F & M man Drudi became the first non-Prema driver to take pole position in the series as the 16-year-old Italian beat Prema’s Maisano by 0.021 seconds. Recently-crowned champion Lance Stroll was third fastest, with series newcomer and BRDC F4 frontrunner Sennan Fielding in fourth.

Swiss driver Edi Haxhiu was fifth quickest ahead of Takashi Kasai, while Alain Valente and another series newcomer Robert Schwartzman made up the fourth row of the grid. Jenzer’s Lucas Mauron and Antonelli’s Andrea Russo rounded off the top ten positions in the first session, which decided the grid for race 1.

The second session, which decided the grid for race three, saw an intense fight for pole. Drudi went fastest with three minutes to go, but Maisano snatched it from him on his last lap in dramatic fashion by just 0.007 seconds.

Joao Vieira took a strong third on the grid for Antonelli, while Stroll was only fourth. Vieira’s teammate Russo was fifth, sharing the third row of the grid with Fielding in sixth, who, along with his Euronova teammates, was in the pits for the first half of Q2.

Swiss drivers Valente and Haxhiu made up the fourth row, while the top ten positions on the grid was completed by Leonardo Pulcini and Schwartzman.

Q1 results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap
1 Mattia Drudi F & M srl 1:54.204
2 Brandon Maisano Prema Powerteam 1:54.225 +0.021
3 Lance Stroll Prema Powerteam 1:54.491 +0.287
4 Sennan Fielding Euronova Racing 1:54.909 +0.705
5 Edi Haxhiu Cram Motorsport 1:54.949 +0.745
6 Takashi Kasai Prema Powerteam 1:54.997 +0.793
7 Alain Valente Jenzer Motorsport 1:55.084 +0.880
8 Robert Shwartzman Cram Motorsport 1:55.187 +0.963
9 Lucas Mauron Jenzer Motorsport 1:55.214 +1.010
10 Andrea Russo Antonelli Motorsport 1:55.384 +1.180
11 Joao Vieira Antonelli Motorsport 1:55.401 +1.197
12 Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing 1:55.540 +1.336
13 Mahaveer Raghunathan F & M srl 1:55.824 +1.620
14 Ivan Matveev SMP Racing by Euronova 1:55.898 +1.694
15 Matteo Desideri Antonelli Motorsport 1:55.921 +1.717
16 Andrea Fontana Euronova Racing 1:56.288 +2.064
17 Nico Rindlisbacher Jenzer Motorsport 1:56.346 +2.142
18 Ali Al Khalifa Jenzer Motorsport 1:56.639 +2.435
19 Jonathan Giudice Diegi Motorsport 1:56.729 +2.525
20 Bar Baruch Israel F4 2:06.929 +12.725
Q2 results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap
1 Brandon Maisano Prema Powerteam 1:53.856
2 Mattia Drudi F & M srl 1:53.863 +0.007
3 Joao Vieira Antonelli Motorsport 1:53.926 +0.070
4 Lance Stroll Prema Powerteam 1:54.001 +0.145
5 Andrea Russo Antonelli Motorsport 1:54.301 +0.445
6 Sennan Fielding Euronova Racing 1:54.424 +0.568
7 Alain Valente Jenzer Motorsport 1:54.576 +0.722
8 Edi Haxhiu Cram Motorsport 1:54.616 +0.760
9 Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing 1:54.678 +0.822
10 Robert Shwartzman Cram Motorsport 1:54.798 +0.942
11 Lucas Mauron Jenzer Motorsport 1:55.046 +1.190
12 Takashi Kasai Prema Powerteam 1:55.120 +1.264
13 Matteo Desideri Antonelli Motorsport 1:55.257 +1.401
14 Mahaveer Raghunathan F & M srl 1:55.297 +1.441
15 Andrea Fontana Euronova Racing 1:55.370 +1.514
16 Nico Rindlisbacher Jenzer Motorsport 1:55.452 +1.596
17 Ivan Matveev SMP Racing by Euronova 1:55.620 +1.764
18 Bar Baruch Israel F4 1:56.153 +2.297
19 Ali Al Khalifa Jenzer Motorsport 1:56.340 +2.484
20 Jonathan Giudice Diegi Motorsport 1:56.474 +2.618