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Ocon and Jeffri top Imola testing

by Valentin Khorounzhiy

Photo: FIA Formula 3 European Championship / Thomas Suer

Lotus junior Esteban Ocon topped the timesheets on day one of the multi-category mid-week test at Imola, with EuroInternational’s Nabil Jeffri going quickest on day two.

With four hour-long sessions of running on Tuesday, the Frenchman, testing an F3 car with Prema Powerteam, ended up topping every single one. Another highly-rated tester – newly-crowned German F3 champion Marvin Kirchhofer – ended up coming second on all four occasions. Tom Blomqvist and Bruno Bonifacio both rounded out the top three on twice.

The second and final day of testing – Wednesday – saw two longer sessions, both topped by EuroInternational cars. Blomqvist was quickest in the first run, beating out Ocon and another Prema tester Ed Jones, while in the afternoon session, it was Jeffri who topped the timesheets, ahead of Blomqvist and Ocon.

Among the Formula Renault cars, Hans Villemi set the quickest time of the two-day event as the Koiranen regular tested for Prema. Meanwhile. series regular Michele Beretta posted the best lap out of the Abarth cars.

Combined results (day one)
Pos. Driver Team Car Time
1 Esteban Ocon Prema Powerteam F3 1:39.344
2 Marvin Kirchhofer Prema Powerteam F3 1:39.656
3 Tom Blomqvist EuroInternational F3 1:40.301
4 Bruno Bonifacio Prema Powerteam F3 1:40.239
5 Ed Jones Prema Powerteam F3 1:40.547
6 Kuba Dalewski JD Motorsport FR20 1:43.369
7 Andrew Tang Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:43.805
8 Ukyo Sasahara Euronova FR20 1:43.901
9 Michele Beretta Euronova Abarth 1:44.102
10 Javier Merlo Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:44.203
11 Sergio Campana TS Corse FR20 1:44.286
12 Konstantin Tereshchenko Interwetten FR20 1:44.421
13 Denis Korneev Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:44.497
14 Matevos Isaakyan Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:44.523
15 Sergey Trofimov Euronova Abarth 1:44.824
16 Alex Bosak SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:44.904
17 Hugo de Sadeleer Tech 1 FR20 1:44.960
18 Ivan Kostyukov Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:45.028
19 Nikita Zlobin SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:45.108
20 Akash Nandy Prema Powerteam FR20 1:45.134
21 Dzhon Simonyan GSK Motorsport FR20 1:45.302
22 Vasily Romanov Tech 1 FR20 1:45.515
23 Semen Evstigneev SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:45.609
24 Marco Zanasi Tomcat Racing FR20 1:45.841
25 Pietro Peccenini TS Corse FR20 1:46.397
26 Andre Mateus Tomcat Racing Abarth 1:46.712
27 Vitaly Larionov Euronova Abarth 1:46.777
28 Danyil Pronenko GSK Motorsport FR20 1:48.519
Combined results (day two)
Pos. Driver Team Car Time
1 Nabil Jeffri EuroInternational F3 1:38.405
2 Tom Blomqvist EuroInternational F3 1:38.602
3 Esteban Ocon Prema Powerteam F3 1:38.869
4 Ed Jones Prema Powerteam F3 1:39.058
5 Marvin Kirchhofer Prema Powerteam F3 1:39.479
6 Bruno Bonifacio Prema Powerteam F3 1:39.496
7 Mario Marasca BVM F3 1:42.135
8 Hans Villemi Prema Powerteam FR20 1:42.622
9 Andrew Tang Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:42.924
10 Kuba Dalewski JD Motorsport FR20 1:43.050
11 Dario Capitanio BVM FR20 1:43.215
12 Luke Chudleigh Tech 1 FR20 1:43.239
13 Alex Bosak SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:43.437
14 Matevos Isaakyan Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:43.444
15 Akash Nandy Prema Powerteam FR20 1:43.528
16 Javier Merlo Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:43.549
17 Dzhon Simonyan GSK Motorsport FR20 1:43.565
18 Ukyo Sasahara Euronova FR20 1:43.600
19 Hugo de Sadeleer Tech 1 FR20 1:43.747
20 Ivan Kostyukov Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:43.971
21 Denis Korneev Jenzer Motorsport FR20 1:43.985
22 Vasily Romanov Tech 1 FR20 1:44.463
23 Nikita Zlobin SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:44.590
24 Semen Evstigneev SMP Racing by Koiranen FR20 1:44.823
25 Pietro Peccenini TS Corse FR20 1:45.123
26 Marco Zanasi Tomcat Racing FR20 1:45.419
27 Andre Mateus Tomcat Racing Abarth 1:45.555
28 Danyil Pronenko GSK Motorsport FR20 1:45.644
29 Luca Martucci Facondini FR20 1:50.302