F2 Barcelona test round-up: Drugovich ends three-day test fastest overall

UNI-Virtuosi's Felipe Drugov🔯ich ended the three days of Formula 2 testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya fa𓆉stest overall.
The Brazilian set the fastest time of the test on the 🐓final day during the morning session.
Due to the two month break between the first round in Bahrain and the🦹 next round in Monaco at the end of May, organiser꧙s arranged a three-day test in Barcelona.
Drugovich’s 1m27.945s put him nearly 0.2s clear of Prema’s Oscar 🙈Piastri in the overall final classification.
MP Motorsport’s Richard Verschoor, ART’s Chrisꦗtian Lundga🍸ard and Hitech’s Liam Lawson completed the top five.
Current F2 points leader🌜 Guanyu Zhou set the 14th fa🧔stest time overall across the three days of testing.
Day 1
Lundgaard dominated the openiꦿng day of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as he topped b꧃oth sessions.
The ART Grand Prix driver completed 79 laps on the opening day as he got to grips with the Spanish𝓡 circuit very quickly.&nb♋sp;
It was a disruptive day w🍸ith five separate red flag stoppages.
In the mo♔rning session, Jehan Daruvala was forced to stop his Carlin at Turn 1, while Piastri caused the seco🐓nd as he stopped at Turn 3.
Gianluca Petecof spun his Campos betw𒁃een Turns 2 and 3, coming to a halt in the gravel trap and thus causing the third red flag of the morning session.
Lirim Zendeli and Roy Nissany caused two further red flags iಌ൲n the afternoon session on a stop-start day to testing in Spain.
Day 2
Verschoor was the man to beat on daܫy two of the test as he continued his good form from the opening roꦯund in Bahrain.
The Dutchman finish൩ed fifth in the second sprint race and then followed up with a fourth-place in 🐻the feature race at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Ra💞lph Boschung was second fastest for Campos, 0.194s off Verschoor, just ahꦉead of Drugovich.
Day 3
Drug🅘ovich was the only man to brea൩k into the 1m28s bracket in testing and it came during the morning session of day three.
A 1m27.945s on the medium tyres put him💟 nearly 0.2s clear of Piastri in second - enough to put him fastest of all across the three days of testing.
🏅Lundgaard was third fastest ahead of Lawson 🌟and Jüri Vips.
Theo Pourchaire was sixth in the second ART Grand Prix, while Prema’s Robert Shwartzman could only manage seventh on day three - 0.5s shy of Drugovich’s impressive ♎benchmark.

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