La Formula 2 takes to the track again a week after the Dutch weekend. A session of quiet qualification but lights up in a chaotic finale. The pole position she went to Theo Pourchaire, who on Sunday will start from the pole followed by Oliver Bearman e roman stanek.
Pourchaire is back on pole
For the penultimate qualifying of the season, the 22 drivers took to the track in Monza to try to grab pole position. The first to reach the top of the time table is Victor Martins, which thus confirms the excellent performance in free practice this Friday morning.
With 20 minutes left, Oliver Bearman and the same teammate as Martins, Theo Pourchaire, are those who most they are coming closer at the time of the ART GP driver, without however managing to beat him. In the second try launch, Pourchaire, it gets better, further lowering the time e taking provisional pole.
All drivers exit the pit lane 5 minutes from the end of the session, trying everything. Coming out so close together, however, it was created queue at the entrance to the chicane, with pilots trying to avoid giving their opponent the slipstream. A situation of chaos that slowed down there and caused many to flag. So no one can beat the time of Pourchaire, that back on pole after the last one obtained in Bahrain.
Drama and chaos, Formula 2 is also this
La waiting strategy and save the last shot for the last minute comes used often, but it doesn't happen every day that all the riders on the grid implement it. Today in Monza, however, what happened and what what emerged was pure chaos.
No one wanted to be in front, because if so the opponents could have taken advantage of the slipstream. In doing so, however, a queue was created at the entrance to the chicane which slowed them down. Many took the checkered flag, Boschung essay who moved away from the group and managed to achieve a time which earned him the tenth position and then the pole in the Sprint Race.
Drama also in the pits, where the poleman of the Zandvoort weekend, Jack Crawford, had to get out of the car due to what appeared to be a fire. The time previously set by the American still earned him the win seventh position.
Tomorrow hours 14:15 the Sprint Race, will we see a drama free competition?