Crawford sets the pace for Prema on day two of F3 test in Valencia

Red Bull junior Jak Crawford set the pace on day two of Formula 3 testing at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit.
Crawford sets the pace for Prema on day two of F3 test in Valencia

Red Bull junior Jak Crawford set the pace oꦚn day two of Formu꧒la 3 testing at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit.

Crawford was in action for reig🌳ning champions Prema and looked well at home with the Italian team. 

The 16-year-old endured an inconsistent maiden season in the series, finishing 13th in the drivers’ championship with one pod♔ium to his name.

Crawford took to the top of the tim🍸esheets with a 1m21.368s in 🐠the morning session.

In the afternoon, Franco Colapinto was quickest for MP Motorsport, just under 0.4s sh⛄y of Crawford💯’s time from this morning.

Morning

Crawford took to the top of the timesheets in the second hour of running in Valen💮cia, toppling 𝕴Gregoire Saucy, who continues to impress for ART Grand Prix.

Saucy was just 0.079s down on Crawford a🧜s he completed 55 laps of the Spanish circuit i𒅌n the morning session.

Caio Collet led the way at one point for MP Motorsport, ultimately ending the session in fourth, just over a tenth off the pac🐓e.

The top 10 in the morning was: Crawford, Saucy, Stanek, Collet, Doohan, B🔥earman, Maloney, Vidales, Frederick and Ushijima.

Afternoon

Colapinto heade🍌d the timesheets in the afternoon session, with times on the whole slower than in the morning due to teams s♍witching their focus to longer runs or simply not having fresh tyres to fit.

The MP Motorsport driver set 51 lap꧃s in the afternoon session, ending the day 0.030s ahead of Saucy.

Collet was third 🐟ahead of Mercedes F1 junior Paul ꧑Aron.

Aron was in action for Prema after finishing ꧑third with the Italian ꦕoutfit in the Formula Regional European Championship. 

The top 10 in the afternoon was: Colapinto, Saucy, Collet, Aron, Stanek, Frederick, Malon🌜ey, Crawford, Vidales and Bearman.

Testing in Valencia for F3 concludes tomorrow. 
 

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