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Stroll claims double pole for Italian F4 opener at Adria

by Peter Allen
Lance Stroll

Photo: ACI Sport

Ferrari Driver Academy star Lance Stroll claimed a double pole position in qualifying for the first round of the new Italian F4 Championship at Adria.

The 15-year-old Canadian defeated his more experienced Prema team-mate Brandon Maisano in each of the two sessions to claim pole for Sunday’s first and third races.

In the first session, Stroll was 0.073 seconds quicker than Maisano, who was dropped by Ferrari’s young driver programme at the end of 2012.

The pair was half a second clear of Leonardo Pulcini of Euronova, who edged out Cram driver Mattia Drudi?for third by four thousandths of a second.

Two more Italians, Matteo Cairoli (Antonelli) and Andrea Russo (Diegi) will share the third row of the grid in race one. Euronova stand-in Ukyo Sasahara took seventh ahead of Joao Vieira with Alain Valente and Ivan Matveev completing the top ten.

Stroll’s session two time was slightly slower than his first, but it was 0.223s quicker than Maisano could manage.

Russo headed the Italian quartet on this occasion in third, in front of Drudi, Cairoli and Pulcini. Sasahara was again seventh, with Matveev just behind his team-mates in eighth. Vieira and Valente made it the same top ten in both sessions.

Starting grids

Race 1 Race 3
1 Lance Stroll Prema Powerteam 1 Lance Stroll Prema Powerteam
2 Brandon Maisano Prema Powerteam 2 Brandon Maisano Prema Powerteam
3 Leonardo Pulcini Euronova Racing 3 Andrea Russo Diegi Motorsport
4 Mattia Drudi Cram Motorsport 4 Mattia Drudi Cram Motorsport
5 Matteo Cairoli Antonelli Motorsport 5 Matteo Cairoli Antonelli Motorsport
6 Andrea Russo Diegi Motorsport 6 Leonardo Pulcini Euronova Racing
7 Ukyo Sasahara Euronova Racing 7 Ukyo Sasahara Euronova Racing
8 Joao Vieira Antonelli Motorsport 8 Ivan Matveev SMP Racing by Euronova
9 Alain Valente Jenzer Motorsport 9 Joao Vieira Antonelli Motorsport
10 Ivan Matveev SMP Racing by Euronova 10 Alain Valente Jenzer Motorsport
11 Max Defourny Cram Motorsport 11 Gustavo Bandeira DAV Racing
12 Gustavo Bandeira DAV Racing 12 Takashi Kasai Prema Powerteam
13 Edi Haxhiu Cram Motorsport 13 Edi Haxhiu Cram Motorsport
14 Nico Rindlisbacher Jenzer Motorsport 14 Max Defourny Cram Motorsport
15 Takashi Kasai Prema Powerteam 15 Lucas Mauron Jenzer Motorsport
16 Lucas Mauron Jenzer Motorsport 16 Ali Al Khalifa Jenzer Motorsport
17 Keith Camilleri Malta Formula Racing 17 Keith Camilleri Malta Formula Racing
18 Ali Al Khalifa Jenzer Motorsport 18 Nico Rindlisbacher Jenzer Motorsport
19 Jonathan Giudice Antonelli Motorsport 19 Bar Baruch Israel F4
20 Bar Baruch Israel F4 20 Jonathan Giudice Antonelli Motorsport
21 Giovanni Altoe Cram Motorsport 21 Giovanni Altoe Cram Motorsport
21 Zack Dante Malta Formula Racing 21 Zack Dante Malta Formula Racing