Mercedes-backed George Russell has claimed his maiden GP3 pole position at the Red Bull Ring. The British driver set a lap time of 1m19.114s to continue ART’s streak of qualifying domination to 10 rounds, a run that started at the same circuit in 2016. Russell finished the session just 0.072s clear of team-mate and Renault […]
Campos Racing’s Marcos Siebert topped a highly competitive GP3 practice session at the Red Bull Ring. The Argentinian driver set a lap time of 1m19.703s, 0.327s faster than Charles Leclerc’s record lap from the same part of the weekend in 2016. It is the first session that Siebert has led in the series after racing […]
After the longest scheduled break of the 2017 season, GP3 finally returns to a race track this weekend for the second round at the Red Bull Ring. A gap of 54 days separates Arjun Maini’s maiden win in the Barcelona sprint race and the first practice in Austria. It is the series’ fourth visit to […]
Mercedes junior driver George Russell is set to take part in his first official session for the German manufacturer at the in-season test at Hungary on August 1-2. Mega excited to be testing the @MercedesAMGF1 W08 both days of the Formula 1 Young Driver Test in Budapest!! 🇭🇺#F1 pic.twitter.com/CtffQtRtfI — George Russell (@GeorgeRussell63) June 24, […]
Honda junior Nirei Fukuzumi has topped the timesheets on the second and final in-season test day at the Hungaroring. The GP3 championship leader set a lap time of 1m31.943s, the only driver to reach into the 1m31s barrier, to lead the way by 0.060s ahead of team-mate Jack Aitken in the morning. Mercedes-backed George Russell completed […]
Mercedes junior driver George Russell has topped the timesheets in the first day of GP3’s in-season test at the Hungaroring. Russell set a time of 1m32.159s in the morning to lead the way by 0.495s over ART team-mate and Renault protégé Jack Aitken. This lap was 0.820s faster than the 2016 pole time at the […]
Mercedes’ DTM reserve and test driver Maximilian Guenther inherited victory in the Pau Grand Prix after Lando Norris crashed out of the race with nine minutes remaining. McLaren junior Norris led from pole, diving in front of Guenther on the right-hand side of the track at the start. He dominated and set many fastest lap […]
Mercedes-backed Maximilian Guenther has taken his first win of the 2017 European Formula 3 season, holding off McLaren junior Lando Norris for the victory in race two at Pau. Guenther started alongside polesitter Norris on the grid and managed to claim a much better start to lead at the first turn. After receiving pressure from […]
New Haas development driver Arjun Maini has claimed his first GP3 win in the sprint race at Barcelona. The Jenzer driver led all 17 laps to take the team’s first win since Patric Niederhauser’s feature win at Hockenheim in 2012, 1758 days ago. Maini had a much better getaway from the grid compared to polesitter Raoul […]
Honda junior driver Nirei Fukuzumi has taken his first win in GP3 in a dominant drive from second on the grid in the feature race at Barcelona. Fukuzumi led all 22 laps after polesitter Jack Aitken suffered a poor start and fell behind his team-mate just a couple of seconds after the race began. The […]
Renault junior Jack Aitken has set the fastest-ever qualifying time in GP3 at Barcelona to take his first pole position in the series. The ART driver set a time of 1m34.187s with just under two minutes of the 30-minute session to go to break a four-year pole record. Tio Ellinas had set the last record-breaking […]
ART Grand Prix’s Nirei Fukuzumi has topped the timesheets in the first practice session of the 2017 GP3 season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Japanese racer set a lap time of 1m35.933s and led the majority of the session as the only driver to get below the 1m36 mark. Late times set by Arjun Maini […]