Home Formula 3Euroformula Kanamaru sweeps Friday practice at Jerez

Kanamaru sweeps Friday practice at Jerez

by Valentin Khorounzhiy
Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

EmiliodeVillota Motorsport’s Yu Kanamaru produced an ominous performance ahead of the Euroformula Open Jerez season opener, topping all three Friday practice sessions.

The Japanese racer set the best time of the day in the first session and led the two other runs.

In the morning, Campos Racing’s Konstantin Tereshchenko was Kanamaru’s closest rival, two tenths off the leader. Vitor Baptista led team champions RP’s efforts in third, with Yarin Stern and Igor Walilko making up the rest of the top five.

Walilko then almost denied Kanamaru a clean sweep, but came up 0.009s short. Diego Menchaca, having sat out the first session, was third, ahead of West-Tec drivers Stern and Tanart Sathienthirakul.

Rounding out the day on top, Kanamaru was followed by RP trio of Baptista, Walilko and Andres Saravia, while William Barbosa completed the top five.

Combined session results
Pos. Driver Team S1 S2 S3
1 Yu Kanamaru EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:37.236 1:38.865 1:39.841
2 Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing 1:37.426 1:39.594 1:40.294
3 Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport 1:37.481 1:40.395 1:39.984
4 Yarin Stern Team West-Tec F3 1:37.501 1:39.162 1:40.222
5 Igor Walilko RP Motorsport 1:37.763 1:38.874 1:40.042
6 Dzhon Simonyan RP Motorsport 1:37.845 1:39.459 1:40.366
7 Alessio Rovera DAV Racing 1:37.900 1:40.044 1:40.150
8 Tanart Sathienthirakul Team West-Tec F3 1:37.940 1:39.367 1:40.403
9 Damiano Fioravanti RP Motorsport 1:38.022 1:40.926 1:40.507
10 Andres Saravia RP Motorsport 1:38.166 1:40.828 1:40.066
11 Diego Menchaca Campos Racing No Time 1:38.911 1:40.334
12 William Barbosa BVM Racing 1:39.142 1:40.028 1:40.142
13 Henrique Baptista Campos Racing 1:39.182 1:40.064 1:40.626
14 Luis Michael Dorrbecker EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:43.511 1:39.758 1:40.920
15 Antoni Ptak RP Motorsport 1:40.788 1:41.004 1:40.235
16 Otto Sanchez EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:41.478 1:43.469 1:40.507
17 Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing 1:43.663 No Time 1:40.573
18 Ahmed Al Ghanem Campos Racing 2:18.858 1:41.223 1:41.067
19 Javier Cobian BVM Racing 1:41.448 1:44.449 1:43.116
20 Juan Manuel Vilalta EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:41.501 1:42.036 1:43.030

Personal best time in bold
Best time of session in italics