Daruvala quickest for the second day running in post-season testing

9 December 2020

Jehan Daruvala went fastest in post-season testing for the second day in a row with Carlin, beating out PREMA Racing’s Robert Shwartzman by 0.167s. Daruvala’s Carlin teammate for the three-day stint, Dan Ticktum, was another familiar name at the front in Sakhir, finishing third overall.

MORNING

ART Grand Prix were the first out onto the track for fast laps on a warm and windy morning at Sakhir, with their new pairing of Christian Lundgaard and Théo Pourchaire topping the timesheets before switching the focus to longer runs. Ralph Boschung has already been announced with Campos for 2021 and took the Spanish side to the top of the charts shortly after the hour mark, lapping at 1:42.244, 0.027s ahead of Tuesday’s fastest man, Jehan Daruvala.

Hitech’s all Red Bull junior team line-up impressed on Day 2, with Liam Lawson lapping less than a tenth off the quickest time for P3, three tenths ahead of Jüri Vips.

It was heads down for most of the grid, with a large focus on gathering data. Felipe Drugovich, Ticktum and Marino Sato all posted more than 40 laps, finishing sixth, eighth and tenth. UNI-Virtuosi’s Guanyu Zhou clocked in the most of the morning, lapping 53 times, but finished down in 20th.

Marcus Armstrong was just seven tenths off the quickest time with DAMS, taking P7, two places ahead of his teammate Roy Nissany in ninth.

Ralph Boschung topped the morning session with Campos

AFTERNOON

Robert Shwartzman and Oscar Piastri returned from the break with a fresh set of Pirelli boots and wasted no time in leaping from the bottom of the timesheets to the top, setting the afternoon standard at 1:43.835.

Drugovich was looking more and more comfortable with UNI-Virtuosi, going five tenths quicker than the PREMA pair to steal P1 for a period, though the Brazilian would end the afternoon in sixth.

The quickest pairing on Day 1 then returned to the top of the order with 90 minutes to go in the second session, Daruvala once again leading Ticktum. Both of them faster than the morning’s quickest man, Boschung.

There were two stoppages with half an hour to go when Matteo Nannini halted at Turn 8 in the HWA machine, before Pourchaire span into the barriers at the same corner.

Shwartzman surged to P1 with 20 minutes to go, but couldn’t quite do enough to keep himself there, as a late lap from Daruvala stole the top spot by 0.167s. While, the Red Bull junior’s teammate, Ticktum, crept into third.

Liam Lawson finished as the fastest rookie with Hitech, four tenths off the pace in fourth, ahead of Marcus Armstrong at DAMS.

Louis Delétraz enjoyed a productive second day at MP Motorsport, going seventh fastest ahead of Charouz pairing David Beckmann and Guilherme Samaia. Another F3 graduate, Clement Novalak, completed the top ten with Trident.

We’ll be back for Day 3 on Thursday at 9.00am (local time).

2020 FIA FORMULA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP - POST-SEASON TESTS, DAY 2, MORNING SESSION

	DRIVER	TEAM	LAPTIME	LAPS
1	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:42.244	33
2	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:42.271	43
3	Liam Lawson	Hitech Grand Prix	1:42.337	35
4	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	1:42.550	30
5	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	1:42.819	32
6	Felipe Drugovich	UNI-Virtuosi	1:42.931	45
7	Marcus Armstrong	DAMS	1:42.961	39
8	Dan Ticktum	Carlin	1:43.018	44
9	Roy Nissany	DAMS	1:43.082	36
10	Marino Sato	Trident	1:43.095	41
11	Logan Sargeant	Campos Racing	1:43.099	42
12	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:43.117	33
13	Clément Novalak	Trident	1:43.277	22
14	David Beckmann	Charouz Racing System	1:43.316	37
15	Louis Delétraz	MP Motorsport	1:43.464	41
16	Guilherme Samaia	Charouz Racing System	1:43.718	38
17	Matteo Nannini	BWT HWA RACELAB	1:43.855	28
18	Lirim Zendeli	MP Motorsport	1:44.650	44
19	Roberto Merhi	BWT HWA RACELAB	1:45.844	17
20	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1:47.579	53
21	Oscar Piastri	PREMA Racing	1:48.139	46
22	Robert Shwartzman	PREMA Racing	2:03.206	31

2020 FIA FORMULA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP - POST-SEASON TESTS, DAY 2, AFTERNOON SESSION

	DRIVER	TEAM	LAPTIME	LAPS
1	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:41.686	34
2	Robert Shwartzman	PREMA Racing	1:41.853	33
3	Dan Ticktum	Carlin	1:42.050	35
4	Liam Lawson	Hitech Grand Prix	1:42.177	39
5	Marcus Armstrong	DAMS	1:42.281	42
6	Felipe Drugovich	UNI-Virtuosi	1:42.373	29
7	Louis Delétraz	MP Motorsport	1:42.375	23
8	David Beckmann	Charouz Racing System	1:42.398	40
9	Guilherme Samaia	Charouz Racing System	1:42.415	38
10	Clément Novalak	Trident	1:42.467	47
11	Logan Sargeant	Campos Racing	1:42.512	36
12	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1:42.629	47
13	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:42.635	31
14	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	1:42.672	39
15	Oscar Piastri	PREMA Racing	1:42.719	33
16	Marino Sato	Trident	1:42.869	53
17	Roy Nissany	DAMS	1:42.876	30
18	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	1:42.888	41
19	Lirim Zendeli	MP Motorsport	1:43.068	18
20	Matteo Nannini	BWT HWA RACELAB	1:43.744	25
21	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	1:44.519	35
22	Roberto Merhi	BWT HWA RACELAB	1:44.981	19