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Antonio Felix Da Costa tops opening qualifying in Macau

Antonio Felix da Costa
Antonio Felix da Costa

Antonio Felix da Costa is on provisional pole position for the qualifying race around the streets of Macau after coming out on top of a heavily disrupted first qualifying session on Thursday.

The Portuguese driver, who is returning to the event this year as part of a four-car assault by Carlin, set the best time of the session with twelve minutes remaining, with no fewer than four red flags causing disruptions.

Van Amersfoort Racing’s Callum Ilott was second fastest, 0.226 seconds down on Felix da Costa, while defending Macau Grand Prix winner Felix Rosenqvist was third for SJM Theodore Racing by Prema. The Swedish driver comfortably headed the morning free practice session and was confident of taking provisional pole position as he bids for a third successive Macau GP victory. But four separate red-flag stoppages hampered his efforts.

Rosenqvist and fourth placed Kenta Yamashita of ThreeBond with T-Sport set the exact same time during the session, but as the Swede set his time first, he gets the benefit of sitting ahead on the provisional grid at this time.

Results

Pos No. Name Nat Team Vehicle Time Laps Behind Gap
1 29 Antonio Felix Da Costa PRT Carlin Dallara Volkswagen 02:11.5 10 0.000 0.000
2 20 Callum Ilott GBR Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara Mercedes 02:11.8 12 0.226 0.226
3 1 Felix Rosenqvist SWE SJM Theodore Racing by Prema Dallara Mercedes 02:11.8 10 0.262 0.036
4 11 Kenta Yamashita JPN ThreeBond with T-Sport Dallara Tomei 02:11.8 10 0.262 0.000
5 9 Daniel Juncadella ESP Hitech GP Dallara Mercedes 02:11.8 11 0.286 0.024
6 27 Sergio Sette Camara BRA Carlin Dallara Volkswagen 02:12.0 10 0.459 0.173
7 26 Lando Norris GBR Carlin Dallara Volkswagen 02:12.0 9 0.461 0.002
8 3 Nick Cassidy NLZ SJM Theodore Racing by Prema Dallara Mercedes 02:12.1 11 0.588 0.127
9 28 Jake Hughes GBR Carlin Dallara Volkswagen 02:12.4 12 0.825 0.237
10 32 Sam Macleod GBR Fortec Motorsport Dallara Mercedes 02:12.5 12 1.001 0.176
11 30 Alexander Sims GBR Double R Racing Dallara Mercedes 02:12.6 12 1.065 0.064
12 17 Arjun Maini IND Motopark Dallara Volkswagen 02:12.7 13 1.122 0.057
13 8 George Russell GBR Hitech GP Dallara Mercedes 02:12.7 10 1.135 0.013
14 21 Anthoine Hubert FRA Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara Mercedes 02:12.7 13 1.192 0.057
15 2 Maximilian Gunther DEU SJM Theodore Racing by Prema Dallara Mercedes 02:13.0 10 1.482 0.290
16 31 Daniel Ticktum GBR Double R Racing Dallara Mercedes 02:13.1 12 1.567 0.085
17 22 Pedro Piquet BRA Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara Mercedes 02:13.3 12 1.741 0.174
18 12 CHANG Wing Chung MAC ThreeBond with T-Sport Dallara NBE 02:13.3 12 1.801 0.060
19 10 Nikita Mazepin RUS Hitech GP Dallara Mercedes 02:13.4 12 1.903 0.102
20 16 Joel Eriksson SWE Motopark Dallara Volkswagen 02:13.5 9 1.944 0.041
21 7 YE Hong Li CHN B-Max Racing Team Dallara Volkswagen 02:14.0 12 2.477 0.533
22 23 David Beckmann DEU kfzteile24 Mucke Motorsport Dallara Mercedes 02:14.1 10 2.527 0.050
23 5 Jann Mardenborough GBR B-Max Racing Team Dallara Volkswagen 02:14.2 11 2.639 0.112
24 18 ZHOU Guan Yu CHN Motopark Dallara Volkswagen 02:14.3 13 2.743 0.104
25 25 Keyvan Andres Soori DEU kfzteile24 Mucke Motorsport Dallara Mercedes 02:14.8 12 3.268 0.525
26 15 Sho Tsuboi JPN Team TOMS Dallara Toyota 02:15.1 12 3.516 0.248
27 6 Daiki Sasaki JPN B-Max Racing Team Dallara Volkswagen 02:15.3 14 3.726 0.210
28 33 Ferdinand Habsburg AUT Fortec Motorsport Dallara Mercedes 02:15.3 11 3.801 0.075
29 19 Tadasuke Makino JPN Toda Racing Dallara Toda 02:15.6 12 4.083 0.282