Photo: FIA Formula 3 European Championship / Thomas Suer
Lotus junior Esteban Ocon topped the timesheets on day one of the multi-category mid-week test at Imola, with EuroInternational’s Nabil Jeffri going quickest on day two.
With four hour-long sessions of running on Tuesday, the Frenchman, testing an F3 car with Prema Powerteam, ended up topping every single one. Another highly-rated tester – newly-crowned German F3 champion Marvin Kirchhofer – ended up coming second on all four occasions. Tom Blomqvist and Bruno Bonifacio both rounded out the top three on twice.
The second and final day of testing – Wednesday – saw two longer sessions, both topped by EuroInternational cars. Blomqvist was quickest in the first run, beating out Ocon and another Prema tester Ed Jones, while in the afternoon session, it was Jeffri who topped the timesheets, ahead of Blomqvist and Ocon.
Among the Formula Renault cars, Hans Villemi set the quickest time of the two-day event as the Koiranen regular tested for Prema. Meanwhile. series regular Michele Beretta posted the best lap out of the Abarth cars.
Combined results (day one)
Pos. | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
1 | Esteban Ocon | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:39.344 |
2 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:39.656 |
3 | Tom Blomqvist | EuroInternational | F3 | 1:40.301 |
4 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:40.239 |
5 | Ed Jones | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:40.547 |
6 | Kuba Dalewski | JD Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.369 |
7 | Andrew Tang | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.805 |
8 | Ukyo Sasahara | Euronova | FR20 | 1:43.901 |
9 | Michele Beretta | Euronova | Abarth | 1:44.102 |
10 | Javier Merlo | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:44.203 |
11 | Sergio Campana | TS Corse | FR20 | 1:44.286 |
12 | Konstantin Tereshchenko | Interwetten | FR20 | 1:44.421 |
13 | Denis Korneev | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:44.497 |
14 | Matevos Isaakyan | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:44.523 |
15 | Sergey Trofimov | Euronova | Abarth | 1:44.824 |
16 | Alex Bosak | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:44.904 |
17 | Hugo de Sadeleer | Tech 1 | FR20 | 1:44.960 |
18 | Ivan Kostyukov | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:45.028 |
19 | Nikita Zlobin | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:45.108 |
20 | Akash Nandy | Prema Powerteam | FR20 | 1:45.134 |
21 | Dzhon Simonyan | GSK Motorsport | FR20 | 1:45.302 |
22 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 | FR20 | 1:45.515 |
23 | Semen Evstigneev | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:45.609 |
24 | Marco Zanasi | Tomcat Racing | FR20 | 1:45.841 |
25 | Pietro Peccenini | TS Corse | FR20 | 1:46.397 |
26 | Andre Mateus | Tomcat Racing | Abarth | 1:46.712 |
27 | Vitaly Larionov | Euronova | Abarth | 1:46.777 |
28 | Danyil Pronenko | GSK Motorsport | FR20 | 1:48.519 |
Combined results (day two)
Pos. | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
1 | Nabil Jeffri | EuroInternational | F3 | 1:38.405 |
2 | Tom Blomqvist | EuroInternational | F3 | 1:38.602 |
3 | Esteban Ocon | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:38.869 |
4 | Ed Jones | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:39.058 |
5 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:39.479 |
6 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | F3 | 1:39.496 |
7 | Mario Marasca | BVM | F3 | 1:42.135 |
8 | Hans Villemi | Prema Powerteam | FR20 | 1:42.622 |
9 | Andrew Tang | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:42.924 |
10 | Kuba Dalewski | JD Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.050 |
11 | Dario Capitanio | BVM | FR20 | 1:43.215 |
12 | Luke Chudleigh | Tech 1 | FR20 | 1:43.239 |
13 | Alex Bosak | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:43.437 |
14 | Matevos Isaakyan | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.444 |
15 | Akash Nandy | Prema Powerteam | FR20 | 1:43.528 |
16 | Javier Merlo | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.549 |
17 | Dzhon Simonyan | GSK Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.565 |
18 | Ukyo Sasahara | Euronova | FR20 | 1:43.600 |
19 | Hugo de Sadeleer | Tech 1 | FR20 | 1:43.747 |
20 | Ivan Kostyukov | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.971 |
21 | Denis Korneev | Jenzer Motorsport | FR20 | 1:43.985 |
22 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 | FR20 | 1:44.463 |
23 | Nikita Zlobin | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:44.590 |
24 | Semen Evstigneev | SMP Racing by Koiranen | FR20 | 1:44.823 |
25 | Pietro Peccenini | TS Corse | FR20 | 1:45.123 |
26 | Marco Zanasi | Tomcat Racing | FR20 | 1:45.419 |
27 | Andre Mateus | Tomcat Racing | Abarth | 1:45.555 |
28 | Danyil Pronenko | GSK Motorsport | FR20 | 1:45.644 |
29 | Luca Martucci | Facondini | FR20 | 1:50.302 |