Sette Camara tops Bahrain F2 free practice

Sergio Sette Camara
Sergio Sette Camara

Sergio Sette Camara has claimed the first bragging rights of the 2019 season by topping this morning’s FIA Formula 2 Championship free practice session with a laptime of 1:43.618 at the Bahrain International Circuit at Sakhir, leading a DAMS 1-2 by 0.3 seconds from teammate Nicholas Latifi and Ralph Boschung.

The session opened to the usual hot and sunny conditions, with most of the drivers heading straight out on track to make sure that their cars were ready for the weekend ahead. The opening 15 minutes was mostly about car set-up, with Jordan King, Anthoine Hubert and Nyck de Vries all taking a turn on the top of the timesheets.

Sette Camara grabbed the top spot at the 20 minute mark, with a number of drivers putting in a competitive time as they worked on their qualifying setups, but it wasn’t to last as most of the field returned to the pits for fresh rubber ahead of race runs in the latter stages of the session.

Behind the top 3 Luca Ghiotto, Callum Ilott, Guanyu Zhou, de Vries, Louis Deletraz, Juan Manuel Correa and Nobuharu Matsushita rounded out the top half of the grid, and with 12 drivers within 1 second of the top spot this evening’s qualifying session promises to bring more excitement.

Free Practice Results

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

TIME

LAPS

1

Sergio Sette Camara

DAMS

1:43.618

12

2

Nicholas Latifi

DAMS

1:43.912

14

3

Ralph Boschung

Trident

1:44.178

12

4

Luca Ghiotto

UNI-Virtuosi Racing

1:44.232

13

5

Callum Ilott

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:44.311

14

6

Guanyu Zhou

UNI-Virtuosi Racing

1:44.3231

12

7

Nyck De Vries

ART Grand Prix

1:44.362

17

8

Louis Deletraz

Carlin

1:44.375

13

9

Juan Manuel Correa

Sauber Junior Team by Charouz

1:44.546

14

10

Nobuharu Matsushita

Carlin

1:44.548

16

11

Sean Gelael

PREMA Racing

1:44.573

13

12

Mick Schumacher

PREMA Racing

1:44.595

12

13

Anthoine Hubert

BWT Arden

1:44.834

17

14

Jack Aitken

Campos Racing

1:45.006

15

15

Giuliano Alesi

Trident

1:45.173

15

16

Jordan King

MP Motorsport

1:45.324

16

17

Nikita Mazepin

ART Grand Prix

1:45.572

17

18

Dorian Boccolacci

Campos Racing

1:45.768

17

19

Tatiana Calderon

BWT Arden

1:46.363

14

20

Mahaveer Raghunathan

MP Motorsport

1:46.637

15