Martins tops first day of FIA F3 testing at Barcelona

MP Motorsport driver and Alpine Academy member Martins, who received last One year’s System Renault Eurocup championship, topped the time sheets with a 1m31.743s place at some level of the afternoon session.

He led from Doohan, with ART GP driver and Mercedes junior Frederik Vesti in third.

Trident’s Clement Novalak came fourth, adopted by Hitech’s Jak Crawford and Charouz driver Michael Belov, competing in his 2d One year of F3.

ART Huge Prix’s Juan Manuel Correa, in barely his third session abet in motorsport since surviving a tragic multiple automobile System 2 wreck at Spa in 2019 that claimed the lifetime of Anthoine Hubert, place a time of 1m33.013s, placing him 18th total – the identical field as over the last test in Austria.

The 30-solid field assembled on the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona for the 2d round of testing on Wednesday, after an earlier test on the Pink Bull Ring earlier than the 21-budge season.

After a moist initiate to the day, Crawford led the morning session with a quickest time of 1m33.674.

He became adopted by Jenzer Motorsport’s Pierre-Louis Chovet and Carlin rookie Kaylen Frederick, with the latter’s teammate Jonny Edgar ending the budge fourth quickest.

Working on Wednesday and Thursday, the 2 days of testing is wreck up into a morning and afternoon session, with a total of 12 hours of be aware time in the market.

Teams are testing on Pirelli’s P Zero troublesome tyres, the identical compound that the drivers will budge on on the outlet round next month.

The two days of be aware time came on the circuit that will host the 2021 season opener, alongside the System 1 Spanish Huge Prix, from Could perchance 7-9.

There will additionally be a third round of testing following the first budge, this time on the Jerez circuit on Could perchance 12-13.