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Barcelona, 23 April 2021: ART Grand Prix’s Christian Lundgaard topped both sessions on Day 1 of testing in Spain, proving peerless around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The quickest time of the two came in the morning session, as the Alpine junior beat out UNI-Virtuosi’s Felipe Drugovich by 0.178s.

India’s Jehan Daruvala of Carlin put in a useful 31 laps in the morning and did 47 more in the afternoon session.

Hitech Grand Prix pairing Jüri Vips and Liam Lawson also managed spots in the top five on the opening day, ahead of MP Motorsport’s Lirim Zendeli.

MORNING

Greeted by a hefty layer of fog upon arrival, the teams only sent their drivers out for an initial install lap when the lights went green. Thankfully, the fog quickly cleared and was replaced by bright blue skies, allowing Campos Racing to shoot out and get a feel for the circuit.

MP Motorsport followed suit, but without setting a competitive time, before Carlin’s Jehan Daruvala stopped at Turn 1 and brought out an early Red Flag.

There was a second inside of the opening hour, as PREMA Racing’s Oscar Piastri pulled up at Turn 3, although the Australian did still manage to finish ninth.

With the two cars safely back in their garages, Lundgaard headed out for a tour of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and posted the quickest time of the morning, setting the standard at 1:29.606, ahead of Vips, who notched 1:29.988.

There was then a third stoppage at the midway point when Gianluca Petecof spun his Campos between turns two and three, coming to a halt on the gravel.

In the final hour, Drugovich managed to give the order a bit of a shake-up, barging into second place, 0.178s off Lundgaard, while Lawson leapt up to fourth, ahead of Zendeli.

Guanyu Zhou just missed out on a spot in the top five with UNI-Virtuosi, finishing 0.005s off Zendeli. Marcus Armstrong was seventh with DAMS, ahead of Campos’s Ralph Boschung.

Running the most laps of the morning session, MP’s Richard Verschoor posted 40 overall, whilst also completing the 10th fastest time.

AFTERNOON

MP were the first team to return to the track in the afternoon session, with their duo getting a fast run out of the way early doors. Verschoor charged to the top of the table on his fifth lap, with a tour of 1:30.165, and was backed up by his teammate, Zendeli.

The pair would end up finishing in second and seventh, with Verschoor’s attention switching to longer runs, before Zendeli lost control of his MP and tagged the barrier.

There was another red flag shortly after as Roy Nissany lost control at Turn 9 and touched the wall himself.

It was the familiar name of Lundgaard who bumped Verschoor down to P2, with the Alpine junior heading out for a single push lap, which returned him to P1 with a time of 1:29.827, before shooting back into the garage.

Lawson was briefly behind them, before getting overtaken in the order by 2020 Formula 3 rival Théo Pourchaire, who lunged into third, three tenths off his ART teammate’s quickest time.

Armstrong dove into fourth to drop Lawson to fifth, ahead of Boschung. David Beckmann emerged in eighth with Charouz Racing System, but was almost a second off the leading pace, ahead of Vips and Drugovich.

Lundgaard will aim to kick off Day 2 in similarly strong form, when action gets underway at 9am local time.

2021 FIA FORMULA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP – BARCELONA TEST, DAY 1, MORNING SESSION

	DRIVER	TEAM	LAPTIME	LAPS
1	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	1:29.594	34
2	Felipe Drugovich	UNI-Virtuosi	1:29.772	26
3	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	1:29.988	26
4	Liam Lawson	Hitech Grand Prix	1:30.006	26
5	Lirim Zendeli	MP Motorsport	1:30.078	39
6	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1:30.083	27
7	Marcus Armstrong	DAMS	1:30.158	26
8	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:30.259	31
9	Oscar Piastri	PREMA Racing	1:30.425	21
10	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport	1:30.519	40
11	Dan Ticktum	Carlin	1:30.598	34
12	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:30.674	31
13	Roy Nissany	DAMS	1:30.723	26
14	Marino Sato	Trident	1:30.727	19
15	Bent Viscaal	Trident	1:30.727	33
16	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:30.738	33
17	Gianluca Petecof	Campos Racing	1:30.882	30
18	Matteo Nannini	HWA RACELAB	1:30.953	30
19	David Beckmann	Charouz Racing System	1:30.973	32
20	Guilherme Samaia	Charouz Racing System	1:31.305	31
21	Robert Shwartzman	PREMA Racing	1:31.435	27
22	Alessio Deledda	HWA RACELAB	1:37.100	7

2021 FIA FORMULA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP – BARCELONA TEST, DAY 1, AFTERNOON SESSION

	DRIVER	TEAM	LAPTIME	LAPS
1	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	1:29.827	45
2	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport	1:30.165	45
3	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:30.167	42
4	Marcus Armstrong	DAMS	1:30.617	46
5	Liam Lawson	Hitech Grand Prix	1:30.739	41
6	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:30.755	41
7	Lirim Zendeli	MP Motorsport	1:30.767	6
8	David Beckmann	Charouz Racing System	1:30.824	31
9	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	1:30.956	39
10	Felipe Drugovich	UNI-Virtuosi	1:31.075	43
11	Bent Viscaal	Trident	1:31.198	36
12	Oscar Piastri	PREMA Racing	1:31.350	24
13	Robert Shwartzman	PREMA Racing	1:31.440	23
14	Gianluca Petecof	Campos Racing	1:31.532	40
15	Guilherme Samaia	Charouz Racing System	1:31.575	31
16	Marino Sato	Trident	1:34.503	40
17	Alessio Deledda	HWA RACELAB	1:34.629	7
18	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1:34.783	51
19	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:35.511	47
20	Matteo Nannini	HWA RACELAB	1:35.787	35
21	Dan Ticktum	Carlin	1:35.865	46
22	Roy Nissany	DAMS	1:36.166	14