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German F3’s newly-crowned champion Marvin Kirchhofer has topped the practice for the final round of the championship at Hockenheim, leading a customary Lotus 1-2-3.
Kirchhofer was 0.3s faster than Artem Markelov, who currently sits in second in the drivers’ standings, while Briton Emil Bernstorff was a further tenth down.
Performance Racing’s John Bryant-Meisner was the best of the rest in fourth, ahead of his closest rival in the standings Gustavo Menezes.
Matteo Cairoli took sixth, with his ex-teammate Tomasz Krzeminski in seventh, narrowly ahead of his debut-making teammate Roman Beregech.
Nabil Jeffri and Nicolai Sylvest rounded out the top ten. Freddy Killensberger, who placed 14th out of 21, was the top driver in the Trophy class.
As this weekend sees a new batch of rules regarding track limits come into play, the session saw a number of laptimes cancelled for most of the drivers taking part.
Session results
| Pos. | Driver | Cl. | Team | Time | Gap |
| 1 | Marvin Kirchhofer | C | Lotus | 1:33.425 | |
| 2 | Artem Markelov | C | Lotus | 1:33.761 | +0.336 |
| 3 | Emil Bernstorff | C | Lotus | 1:33.842 | +0.417 |
| 4 | John Bryant-Meisner | C | Performance Racing | 1:33.853 | +0.428 |
| 5 | Gustavo Menezes | C | Van Amersfoort | 1:34.096 | +0.671 |
| 6 | Matteo Cairoli | C | ADM Motorsport | 1:34.869 | +1.444 |
| 7 | Tomasz Krzeminski | C | Performance Racing | 1:34.888 | +1.463 |
| 8 | Roman Beregech | C | Performance Racing | 1:34.957 | +1.532 |
| 9 | Nabil Jeffri | C | EuroInternational | 1:35.425 | +2.000 |
| 10 | Nicolai Sylvest | C | JBR Motorsport | 1:36.296 | +2.871 |
| 11 | Sheban Siddiqi | C | Lotus | 1:36.939 | +3.514 |
| 12 | Jordi Weckx | C | Van Amersfoort | 1:37.144 | +3.719 |
| 13 | Nikita Zlobin | C | ADM Motorsport | 1:37.517 | +4.092 |
| 14 | Freddy Killensberger | T | GU-Racing | 1:38.062 | +4.637 |
| 15 | Maximilian Hackl | T | Franz Woss Racing | 1:38.530 | +5.105 |
| 16 | Sebastian Balthasar | T | GU-Racing | 1:38.647 | +5.222 |
| 17 | Christian Zeller | T | CR Racing Team | 1:42.147 | +8.722 |
| 18 | Andreas Germann | T | CR Racing Team | 1:42.604 | +9.179 |
| 19 | Luca Iannaccone | T | Franz Woss Racing | 1:44.485 | +11.060 |
| 20 | Frank Debruyne | T | CR Racing Team | 1:45.141 | +11.716 |
| 21 | Thomas Amweg | T | CR Racing Team | 4:09.329 | +2:35.904 |