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Stuvik grabs pole for first Euroformula Open race at Portimao

by Gruz David
Sandy Stuvik

Photo: Fotospeedy

Thai racer Sandy Stuvik was the fastest man on track in the Saturday qualifying session of Euroformula Open at Portimao.

Stuvik, who is spending his sophomore season in the series after finishing runner-up last year, went more than 0.3s faster than his teammate Artur Janosz, who will complete the front row.

Team West-Tec will hold row two with Cameron Twynham third, while Tanart Sathienthirakul?is going to start alongside him having narrowly edged out Dzhon Simonyan and Yu Kanamaru.

Sophomore driver Gerardo Nieto, who returns to the series with DAV Racing after missing the opening round of this season, qualified seventh.

The top ten is completed by karting graduate Alex Palou, Yarin Stern and Andres Saravia.

Session results
Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Sandy Stuvik RP Motorsport 1:42.624
2 Artur Janosz RP Motorsport 1:42.975 0.351
3 Cameron Twynham Team West-Tec 1:43.142 0.518
4 Tanart Sathienthirakul Team West-Tec 1:43.245 0.621
5 Dzhon Simonyan RP Motorsport 1:43.252 0.628
6 Yu Kanamaru EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:43.265 0.641
7 Gerardo Nieto DAV Racing 1:43.316 0.692
8 Alex Palou Campos Racing 1:43.404 0.780
9 Yarin Stern Team West-Tec 1:43.452 0.828
10 Andres Saravia RP Motorsport 1:43.491 0.867
11 Nicolas Pohler Team West-Tec 1:43.513 0.889
12 Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing 1:43.526 0.902
13 Che One Lim EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:43.555 0.931
14 Wei Fung Thong Team West-Tec 1:43.853 1.229
15 Sean Walkinshaw Campos Racing 1:43.884 1.260
16 Henrique Baptista DAV Racing 1:44.152 1.528
17 Damiano Fioravanti Corbetta Competizioni 1:44.374 1.750
18 Saud Al Faisal RP Motorsport 1:44.597 1.973
19 William Barbosa Corbetta Competizioni 1:45.234 2.610
20 Costantino Peroni RP Motorsport 1:45.526 2.902