Hauger beats Doohan to first Formula 3 pole of 2021 in Barcelona

Dennis Hauger stormed to his first Formula 3 pole position as he beat Jack Doohan at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya by just 0.006s.
Hauger beats Doohan to first Formula 3 pole of 2021 in Barcelona

After a disappoint♒ing first season in F3, Hauger made the switch to Prema from H♛itech Grand Prix.

Hauger toꦡpped practice and converted that impressive pace into pole in Spain, to take the four additional po🌳ints that come with it.

Doohan led much of qualifying but was unable to match Hauger’s t🃏hird and final effort.

A last-ditch effort from Victorꦬ Martins moved him up to third for MP Motorsport, 0.061s off Hauger’s pole time.

🌃Matteo Nannini was second after the first runs, but his charge faltered as he dropped to fourth in the lead HWA Racelab.

ART Grand Prix’s Frederik Vesti completed th꧅e top five.

Olli Caldwell was the second-ಞhighest Prema car in sixth, just over 0.3s shy of teammate Hauger.

Clement Novalak, Logan Sargeant and David Schumacher rounded out 💃the top nine, whi💦le Brazilian Caio Collet was tenth fastest.

The stewards noted an incident between Collet and Hauger, when Collet was warming up his t🎃yres at Turn 3, he erratically nearly swiped Hauger.

With Hauger taking pole, he will start th𒊎e first sprint race from 12th on the grid💯.

Like in Formula 2 for this year, F3 will have three separate races throughout each weekend, rather than j♈ust two.

Fri🐭day’s qualifying results dictate the gr꧒id for Sunday’s main feature race.

The qualifying result from Friday also decides the grid for Saturday’s firstꦆ sprint race, although the top 12 is reversed.

The result from the first sprint race is once again reversed for the second sprint race, which takes✱ place after Formula 1 qual🃏ifying on the Saturday.

This means Jonny Edgar will line up on pole position⛦ for the first sprint race after qualifying 12th, behind 11th placed man Alekꦍsandr Smolyar.

Juan Manuel Correa qualified an impressive 13th on his return to competitive racing, ꧙while Arthur Leclerc will be disappointed with🐟 15th.

16-year-old Jak Crawfo𒉰rd will start his first F3 race from 20th on the grid.

Click here to find the full Formula 3 qualꦯifying results fꦯrom Spain.

 

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