Following on from his pace setting times in Friday practice, Kevin Magnussen secured pole position for both British Formula 3 feature races at Paul Ricard.
The Dane’s best of 2:00.426 offered a 0.235 advantage over Felipe Nasr’s quickest tour – a gap that closed to just over over one-and-a-half-tenths for the weekend’s third event.
Nasr initially proved to be the quickest on track, before being overhauled by Magnussen, although the Brazilian still managed a second place starting position for both races.
Indeed the field displayed a incredible amount of consistency during the session, with the top ten positions for both races proving to be identical.
Come the chequered flag, Carlin drivers possessed five of the top six spots, with Hitech’s Antonio Felix da Costa breaking the party by taking 3rd, with Carlos Huertas alongside.
Jack Harvey’s run of improvement continues with each meeting. The rookie pilot secured a third row position, just ahead of Rupert Svendsen-Cook (6th) and Hitech’s Pietro Fantin (7th).
William Buller placed the highest Mercedes starter, qualifying his Fortec Motorsport machine in 8th. The Northern Irishman seized the place ahead of Jazeman Jaafar (9th, Carlin) and championship challenger Lucas Foresti (10th, Fortec).
Bart Hylkema’s first qualifying session saw the Dutch pilot qualify his T-Sport entry 12th (race 1) and 13th (race 3), respectively finishing 1.6 and 1.7 seconds shy of the top spot.
Race one: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Kevin Magnussen Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.528s 2. Felipe Nasr Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.691s + 0.163s 3. Antonio Felix da Costa Hitech Dallara-VW 2m00.870s + 0.342s 4. Carlos Huertas Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.943s + 0.415s 5. Jack Harvey Carlin Dallara-VW 2m01.060s + 0.532s 6. Rupert Svendsen-Cook Carlin Dallara-VW 2m01.105s + 0.577s 7. Pietro Fantin Hitech Dallara-VW 2m01.358s + 0.830s 8. William Buller Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m01.544s + 1.016s 9. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin Dallara-VW 2m01.628s + 1.100s 10. Lucas Foresti Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m02.102s + 1.574s 11. Menasheh Idafar T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.161s + 1.633s 12. Bart Hylkema T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.178s + 1.650s 13. Harry Tincknell Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m02.220s + 1.692s 14. Fahmi Ilyas Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m02.313s + 1.785s 15. Scott Pye Double R Dallara-Merc 2m02.409s + 1.881s 16. Pipo Derani Double R Dallara-Merc 2m02.489s + 1.961s 17. Hywel Lloyd Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 2m02.515s + 1.987s 18. Yann Cunha T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.766s + 2.238s 19. Adderly Fong Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 2m04.201s + 3.673s 20. Kotaro Sakurai Hitech Dallara-Mugen 2m05.451s + 4.923s Race three: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Kevin Magnussen Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.426s 2. Felipe Nasr Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.661s + 0.235s 3. Antonio Felix da Costa Hitech Dallara-VW 2m00.713s + 0.287s 4. Carlos Huertas Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.937s + 0.511s 5. Jack Harvey Carlin Dallara-VW 2m00.993s + 0.567s 6. Rupert Svendsen-Cook Carlin Dallara-VW 2m01.003s + 0.577s 7. Pietro Fantin Hitech Dallara-VW 2m01.317s + 0.891s 8. William Buller Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m01.400s + 0.974s 9. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin Dallara-VW 2m01.610s + 1.184s 10. Lucas Foresti Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m01.844s + 1.418s 11. Harry Tincknell Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m01.900s + 1.474s 12. Menasheh Idafar T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.095s + 1.669s 13. Bart Hylkema T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.139s + 1.713s 14. Scott Pye Double R Dallara-Merc 2m02.236s + 1.810s 15. Fahmi Ilyas Fortec Dallara-Merc 2m02.278s + 1.852s 16. Hywel Lloyd Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 2m02.435s + 2.009s 17. Pipo Derani Double R Dallara-Merc 2m02.462s + 2.036s 18. Yann Cunha T-Sport Dallara-VW 2m02.550s + 2.124s 19. Adderly Fong Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 2m03.923s + 3.497s 20. Kotaro Sakurai Hitech Dallara-Mugen 2m04.885s + 4.459s
