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Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya SATURDAY RACE 1 >> 22 LAPS >> 102.724 KM 40 min. Start/Finish Offset RACE 2 >> 22 LAPS >> 102.724 KM 40 min. 4.675 KM 0.126 km SUNDAY RACE 3 >> 22 LAPS >> 102.724 KM 40 min.
AVERAGE TEMP. 22°/10° WHEN TO WATCH AVERAGE RAINFALL 35 mm
ALL TIMES LOCAL (GMT +2) CAMPSA LAP RECORD 2019
FRIDAY 07 MAY SECTOR 3 BANC DE EUROPCAR 10:05 Practice Session . 45 min. REPSOL SABADELL 1:31.975 (182.201 KM/H) 13:35 Qualifying Session . 30 min. SECTOR 2 Robert Shwartzman (PREMA Racing) 16:30 Press Conference* CHICANE SATURDAY 08 MAY RENAULT SEAT RACC MAXIMUM SPEED 10:35 Race 1 . 22 laps or 40 min. 298.8 KM/H * 11:40 Press Conference Pedro Piquet (Trident) in 2019 Race 2 16:45 Race 2 . 22 laps or 40 min. 17:50 Press Conference* COMPOUND ELF SECTOR 1 Allocation SUNDAY 09 MAY NEW HOLLAND 12:05 Race 3 . 22 laps or 40 min. 13:10 Press Conference* HARD *Note: You can join the Press Conference via Zoom upon request.
THE STory so far FROM THE GRID Frederik Vesti ART Grand Prix
The 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship The lead-up to pre-season testing saw a “It’s been an exciting “The new weekend format is really officially gets underway tomorrow at the wave of driver announcements and plenty start to the season as exciting, but it’s also going to be a Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Spain. of seat-switching with just two drivers, I have switched to ART challenge. If you take pole position you This year marks the third exciting season Alexander Smolyar and Calan Williams, Grand Prix for 2021. get a setback in Race 1, but we need to for the junior category, which returns staying in their 2020 car. An astounding It’s a new team, new remember that the weekend is long and to action with a brand-new three-race 18 newcomers will line up on the starting people and a new car that your best race will probably come on weekend format, a reinvigorated seven- grid for Round 1 in Barcelona, and three to learn. I had to put in a lot of work Sunday when you start on Pole. Overall, round calendar, and 30 talented young teams, MP Motorsport, Campos Racing during meetings, in the simulator and I think it’s good for the Championship drivers all eager for Championship glory. and Carlin Buzz Racing, head into the during the tests. Learning everything and it’s good for the people watching new season with all-rookie line-ups. in a short time frame was both exciting at home!” It’s been an eventful six months since and challenging. I feel very well Oscar Piastri clinched the 2020 With newcomers beating circuit records “Tyre management is also going to be prepared for the start of the season.” Championship title in a nail-biting and topping the timesheets, pre-season crucial this weekend, especially if the battle down to the wire in the closing testing at Spielberg and Barcelona “Barcelona is a great track; most weather is hot. Everyone on the grid is round at Mugello. The Alpine protégé’s offered an exciting insight into what to drivers would love the chance to drive facing the same challenge, so it’s going sensational rookie season earned him expect of the 2021 season, and while here. There is lots of different types of to be crucial to understand the tyres from a swift, richly deserved promotion to every season so far has been unique, corner, and you have sections that are the start of the race.” Formula 2 with PREMA Racing. Since one thing is for certain: F3 is never short unique to this track. The last sector is “Heading into Round 1, our goal is to then, seven other Formula 3 graduates on drama or surprises! challenging, but you also have the start out being fast and consistent, both in have made the step-up to the top tier slow speed corners combined with Practice and in Qualifying. In the Races, of junior motorsport, including 2020 some fast ones which are great. The it’s also going to be all about consistency Vice-Champion Théo Pourchaire, making only downside is that it’s a little difficult to make sure we stay on the track, get the way for some exciting new faces who to pass cars in front. I think the key laps in, and ultimately score some good are just beginning their journey on the area for overtaking is definitely going points!” Road to F1. to be Turn 1.”
The CHALLENGERS STAT PACK
Just seven rounds stand between one teams, including no fewer than five Red > Logan Sargeant is the highest- > Just one race has been won by of this year’s 30 talented young drivers Bull Juniors and two Alpine Academy placed driver returning from last the polesitter at the track since the and the Championship title, but with Members. year’s championship, having finished beginning of FIA Formula 3 Robert two brand-new venues and a third race third in the standings in 2020. Shwartzman claimed his maiden Expectations for the 2021 season were added to the weekend schedule, there’s win with PREMA Racing after starting set high at the opening pre-season tests little doubt that an action-packed season P1 in the opening round at the circuit at the Red Bull Ring and Circuit de > Trident is the only team on the grid is on the cards. in 2019. Barcelona-Catalunya. MP Motorsport’s not to feature a rookie in its trio of This year’s line-up unites familiar faces Caio Collet finished as the fastest driver of drivers for this season. from last season with new drivers making the two days in the Austrian hills, beating > Two drivers in the 2021 field have the step-up from Formula Regional and his nearest rival by nearly two tenths. > Just one driver has completed two previously stood on the podium in Formula 4 series across the globe. The In fact, four drivers set new Formula 3 full seasons in Formula 3: Logan Barcelona: Logan Sargeant took 3rd 2021 grid is also the most youthful lap records at the circuit. Meanwhile, in Sargeant. in Race 1 and Matteo Nannini In cohort of drivers to date, with an average Barcelona 22 drivers all finished within Race 2 at the circuit last year. age of just 18.6 years old. Almost a third a second of the quickest man around the > The 2021 grid features six Formula 3 of the 2021 grid also have links to F1 track, Victor Martins (MP). podium sitters. Collectively they have claimed 15 podiums. MEDIA KIT
TYRE TALK MARIO ISOLA (PIRELLI HEAD OF F1 AND CAR RACING) SAYS: > It also features two F3 race winners: The 2021 FIA Formula 3 Frederik Vesti, who has won three Championship™ Media Kit is available “With the increase to three races per by the many high-speed corners, and in races, and Logan Sargeant, who has for download in our Media Zone. weekend, each Formula 3 driver will particular the Turn 3 right-hander. Still, won two. www.fiaformula3.com/About/Media-Zone now have five sets of slick tyres available with the possibility for warm weather, we rather than four. For Barcelona, the P Zero expect drivers will need to demonstrate > The F3 record at the Circuit de White hard compound is nominated. This a degree of tyre management during the Barcelona-Catalunya under the new is the same nomination as in previous races: an important skill for them to learn circuit configuration is 1:31.636, set years and is selected to handle the on the road to Formula 1.” by Victor Martins with MP Motorsport significant demands placed on the tyres in at pre-season testing in 2021.
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ON-BOARD 2021 ENTRY LIST CAMERAS SEASOn STATS 1 Dennis Hauger HAU PREMA Racing NOR 18 y/o 18 rookies are lining up on the grid in 2021, with 2 Arthur Leclerc LEC all-rookie teams at MP Motorsport, Campos Racing MON 20 y/o Rookie and Carlin Buzz Racing. 3 Olli Caldwell CAL 18 GBR 18 y/o 4 Jack Doohan DOO Trident AUS 18 y/o The average age of this year’s drivers. 5 Clément Novalak NOV FRA 20 y/o 18.7 6 David Schumacher SCH DEU 19 y/o The number of different nationalities 7 Frederik Vesti VES ART Grand Prix DNK 19 y/o represented on the grid. 8 Alexander Smolyar SMO 19 RUS 19 y/o 9 Juan Manuel Correa JCO USA 21 y/o Rookie 2021 CLASSIFICATIONS 10 Jak Crawford CRA drivers’ standings teams’ standings Hitech Grand Prix USA 16 y/o Rookie POS. DRIVER R1M R2M R3M PTS SHUFFLE POS. TEAM R1M R2M R3M PTS SHUFFLE 11 Ayumu Iwasa IWA JPN 19 y/o Rookie 1...... 1...... 12 Roman Stanek STA ...... CZE 17 y/o 2. 2. 14 Matteo Nannini NAN 3...... 3...... HWA RACELAB ITA 17 y/o 4...... 4...... RAS 15 Oliver Rasmussen 5...... 5...... DNK 20 y/o Rookie 6...... 6...... 16 Rafael Villagómez VIL MEX 19 y/o Rookie 7...... 7...... MAR 17 Victor Martins 8...... 8...... MP Motorsport FRA 19 y/o Rookie 9...... 9...... 18 Caio Collet CCO BRA 19 y/o Rookie 10...... 10...... 19 Tijmen Van der Helm VAN 11...... NLD 17 y/o Rookie 12...... 20 László Tóth TOT Campos Racing HUN 20 y/o Rookie 13...... 21 Loronzo Colombo LCO 14...... ITA 20 y/o Rookie 15...... ACO 22 Amaury Cordeel ...... BEL 18 y/o Rookie 16. MOST F3 WINS ...... 23 Ido Cohen COH 17. 17 DRIVERS Carlin Buzz Racing ISR 19 y/o Rookie 18...... Marcus Armstrong...... NZL...... 3 FRE 24 Kaylen Frederick 19...... USA 18 y/o Rookie Jake Hughes...... GBR...... 3 20...... Liam Lawson...... NZL...... 3 EDG 25 Jonny Edgar Robert Shwartzman L...... RUS...... 3 GBR 17 y/o Rookie 21...... Frederik Vesti...... DNK...... 3 26 Calan Williams WIL 22...... Jüri Vips...... EST...... 3 Jenzer Motorsport AUS 20 y/o 23...... David Beckmann...... DEU...... 2 27 Pierre-Louis Chovet CHO Jehan Daruvala...... IND...... 2 ...... FRA 19 y/o Rookie 24. Oscar Piastri L...... AUS...... 2 28 Filip Ugran UGR 25...... Théo Pourchaire...... FRA...... 2 ROU 18 y/o Rookie Logan Sargeant...... USA...... 2 26...... SAR Christian Lundgaard...... DNK...... 1 29 Logan Sargeant ...... Charouz Racing USA 20 y/o 27. Pedro Piquet...... BRA...... 1 Leonardo Pulcini...... ITA...... 1 System Fittipaldi FIT 28...... 30 Enzo Yuki Tsunoda...... JPN...... 1 BRA 19 y/o ...... 29. Bent Viscaal...... NLD...... 1 DEG 31 Reshad de Gerus 30...... Lirim Zendeli...... DEU...... 1 FRA 17 y/o Rookie
POLE POSITION RACE 1 FASTEST LAP RACE 2 FASTEST LAP RACE 3 FASTEST LAP 2021 SEASOn RECAP WINNER M WINNER M WINNER M
SPAIN 1 07-08-09 May Barcelona ...... Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya ......
FRANCE 2 25-26-27 June Le Castellet ...... Circuit Paul Ricard ......
AUSTRIA 3 02-03-04 July Spielberg ...... Red Bull Ring ......
HUNGARY 4 30-31 July - 01 August Budapest ...... Hungaroring ......
BELGIUM 5 27-28-29 August Spa-Francorchamps ...... Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps ......
NETHERLANDS 6 03-04-05 September Zandvoort ...... Zandvoort Circuit NEW VENUE ......
UNITED STATES 7 22-23-24 October Austin ...... Circuit of the Americas NEW VENUE ......
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