Ollie Bearman narrowly on pole, Jack Doohan third in Formula 2 Barcelona qualifying
Ollie Bearman edged to pole around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, just seven-hundredths of a second ahead of Enzo Fittipaldi and Jack Doohan.
Ollie Bearman went fastest on Friday to take Formula 2 pole at the Spanish Grand Prix. (PREMA Racing)
Fittipaldi was fastest after the first set of flying laps until Jack Doohan went to the top with a lap of 1:24.078.
With ten minutes remaining, a flurry of hot laps left Fittipaldi in the top spot once again before Bearman went quickest overall with a lap of 1:23.546.
“Everyone knows I made my life a bit more difficult than I needed to in Baku,” said Bearman, who set the fastest lap in Azerbaijan with bent steering.
“Today was a bit more of a standard session let's say. I had a good car underneath me and yeah, it was a nice session.”
“From the car it felt like I had loads of room. That clearly wasn't the case but you know it’s a 1ualifying lap, you have to give it everything.”
“It was a decent lap. They’re never perfect. We've had like three push laps today, so there's always places where you're like I could have found a bit more time there. But it's just about putting it all together and we managed that today.”
Ollie Bearman celebrates Formula 2 pole position in Spain. (Formula Motorsport Limited)
Amaury Cordeel will start the reverse-grid sprint race on pole after qualifying tenth, with Jak Crawford alongside him on the front row.
Monao race-winner and championship leader Frederik Vesti qualified eighth, with the Spanish Grand Prix promising to mix up the standings for yet another round of the Formula 2 season.
Ollie Bearman on track in Barcelona. (Formula Motorsport Limited)
The sprint race is underway at 10.15pm on Saturday (AEST), with the feature race at 7.25pm on Sunday.
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2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship - Round 7 Spain Qualifying
- Oliver Bearman
- Enzo Fittipaldi
- Jack Doohan (AUS)
- Ayumu Iwasa
- Theo Pourchaire
- Dennis Hauger
- Victor Martins
- Frederik Vesti
- Jak Crawford
- Amaury Cordeel
- Juan Manuel Correa
- Richard Verschoor
- Arthur Leclerc
- Kush Maini
- Jehan Daruvala
- Roy Nissany
- Ralph Boschung
- Roman Stanek
- Clement Novalak
- Isack Hadjar
- Zane Maloney
- Brad Benavides
