Formula 2‘s most recent race winner Jehan Daruvala has finished the opening day of post-season testing on time of the timesheets.
After a delay of a handful of hours while circuit officials ensured appropriate marshalling and safety support was in place, the session got underway, with Campos’ Logan Sargeant setting the first hot lap of the day.
The fastest time fell as the session went on on across five hours, with Daruvala clocking a 1:41.848 in the final hour of the test for Carlin.
Finishing behind the Indian driver was the second Carlin driven by Dan Ticktum, with the Silverstone Sprint Race winner from earlier this year ending up 0.106s down on Daruvala’s time.
Louis Deletraz, testing with the MP Motorsport team after spending the 2020 campaign with Charouz, was third fastest, four-tenths down on Daruvala. The Swiss driver was narrowly ahead of Prema’s Robert Shwartzman, with just 0.002s splitting the duo.
Callum Ilott, who missed out on the F2 title last weekend to Mick Schumacher, was sixth fastest for Charouz, heading Campos’ confirmed 2020 driver Ralph Boschung and China’s Guanyu Zhou.
Felipe Drugovich got his first outing with UNI-Virtuosi ahead of his full-time switch for 2021 and was ninth in the classifications, beating ART Grand Prix’s Christian Lundgaard.
Liam Lawson was the fastest of the F3 graduates, ending up just 0.023s behind Lundgaard’s best time.
The F2 test in Bahrain will continue on Wednesday, December 9, which will be second of three days of on-track running.
