Lundgaard fastest as Paul Ricard F3 test ends

The morning session provided the top 12 fastest times, with Lundgaard – the Formula Renault Eurocup runner-up from last year – setting a lap of 1m48.786s, 1.829s quicker than Dorian Boccolacci’s pole time at the same track in GP3 last year.

He did stop at the pitlane entry, but was able to get back out on track to set the session best. 

Marcus Armstrong took second quickest having topped the times on the first day of the test for Prema Racing on Wednesday.

Hitech GP’s Leonardo Pulcini – who was the runner-up on Wednesday – took third. 

Prema had two cars in the top four with Armstrong’s teammate and fellow Ferrari junior Robert Shwartzman in fourth, ahead of a second Hitech-run car of Yifei Ye. 

The top five were the only drivers to dip into the 1m48s at the Le Castellet track. 

After missing Wednesday's action with engine trouble, Jake Hughes was the highest placed HWA car as he managed to set the ninth-fastest time in the morning and completed 78 laps.

Pedro Piquet – son of three-time Formula 1 champion Nelson – lapped the most number of times with 100 laps for Trident.

Yuki Tsunoda topped the afternoon session for Jenzer Motorsport, but his time was good enough for 13th only overall on the day.

The series will test again at Barcelona on April 9-10, then at Budapest on April 17-8 before the season kicks off in Barcelona on May 10-12.

Testing times:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Morning	Afternoon
1	Christian Lundgaard	ART	1'48.786	1'50.719
2	Marcus Armstrong	Prema	1'48.800	1'52.023
3	Leonardo Pulcini	Hitech	1'48.904	1'49.742
4	Robert Shwartzman	Prema	1'48.975	1'52.043
5	Yifei Ye	Hitech	1'48.997	1'51.962
6	Richard Verschoor	MP	1'49.118	1'49.582
7	Max Fewtrell	ART	1'49.133	1'50.867
8	Liam Lawson	MP	1'49.176	1'50.000
9	Jake Hughes	HWA	1'49.206	1'49.572
10	Felipe Drugovich	Carlin	1'49.240	1'50.015
11	Alex Peroni	Campos	1'49.251	1'49.712
12	Jehan Daruvala	Prema	1'49.254	1'51.013
13	Yuki Tsunoda	Jenzer	1'49.528	1'49.301
14	David Beckmann	ART	1'49.339	1'50.373
15	Juri Vips	Hitech	1'49.349	1'50.121
16	Niko Kari	Trident	1'49.881	1'49.372
17	Pedro Piquet	Trident	1'49.428	1'49.487
18	Simo Laaksonen	MP	1'49.479	1'52.207
19	Lirim Zendeli	Sauber	1'50.633	1'50.111
20	Bent Viscaal	HWA	1'49.606	1'49.931
21	Sebastian Fernandez	Campos	1'49.623	1'50.007
22	Andreas Estner	Jenzer	1'49.623	1'50.149
23	Raoul Hyman	Sauber	1'49.654	1'50.886
24	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1'49.654	1'50.428
25	Artem Petrov	Jenzer	1'49.660	1'50.173
26	Teppei Natori	Carlin	1'49.880	1'50.764
27	Devlin Defrancesco	Trident	1'50.453	1'50.034
28	Fabio Scherer	Sauber	1'50.179	1'50.156
29	Keyvan Andres	HWA	1'50.773	1'51.410
30	Alessio Deledda	Campos	1'51.091	1'50.914