Trident dominated Formula Three’s 2021 two-day in-season test at Jerez as Clement Novalak ultimately finished fastest overall across both days.
Just days after the opening round of the season in Barcelona, Spain, F3 hit the track once again at Jerez for their only in-season test which replaced the planned pre-season test around here that had been cancelled due to UK travel restrictions.
Trident however dominated all two days as they topped three of the four sessions across both days of testing, so here is a full roundup of the test.
Day One
A frantic start to the morning saw several drivers head straight out eager to begin gathering data in their quest for improvement, following an entertaining opening round in Barcelona last weekend.
MP Motorsport’s Caio Collet set the early pace until ART GP’s Juan Manuel Correa bettered his pace, until Jonny Edgar and Calan Williams both broke the 90 second barrier with Edgar going top with 1m 29.991.
Trident eventually posted the day-topping times with Jack Doohan fastest on a 1m 29.625 ahead of teammate – Clement Novalak by 0.051s, with ART GP’s Fredrik Vesti just 0.075s slower in third.
Edgar had to settle for the fourth quickest lap time ahead of Aleksandr Smolyar, Ayumu Iwasa, Williams, Collet, Pierre-Louis Chovet and Jak Crawford as the top 19 times of day one were set in the morning session.
Out of just five drivers who posted their quickest lap time in the afternoon session, Dennis Hauger was the fastest but his lap ultimately was only 20th quickest overall.
Doohan also emerged fastest in the afternoon session but 0.980s slower than his morning time, as all ten teams enjoyed a rare uninterrupted day of running with no red flags.
| Position | Driver | Team | Time | Session |
| 1 | Jack Doohan | Trident | 1m 29.625 | am |
| 2 | Clement Novalak | Trident | + 0.051 | am |
| 3 | Frederik Vesti | ART GP | + 0.075 | am |
| 4 | Jonny Edgar | Carlin | + 0.286 | am |
| 5 | Aleksandr Smolyar | ART GP | + 0.302 | am |
| 6 | Ayumu Iwasa | Hitech GP | + 0.320 | am |
| 7 | Calan Williams | Jenzer | + 0.342 | am |
| 8 | Caio Collet | MP Motorsport | + 0.419 | am |
| 9 | Pierre-Louis Chovet | Jenzer | + 0.439 | am |
| 10 | Jak Crawford | Hitech GP | + 0.472 | am |
| 11 | Oliver Rasmussen | HWA Racelab | + 0.556 | am |
| 12 | Kaylen Frederick | Carlin | + 0.603 | am |
| 13 | Enzo Fittipaldi | Charouz | + 0.609 | am |
| 14 | David Schumacher | Trident | + 0.805 | am |
| 15 | Ido Cohen | Carlin | + 0.813 | am |
| 16 | Matteo Nannini | HWA Racelab | + 0.886 | am |
| 17 | Juan Manuel Correa | ART GP | + 0.926 | am |
| 18 | Arthur Leclerc | PREMA | + 0.980 | am |
| 19 | Olli Caldwell | PREMA | + 1.039 | am |
| 20 | Dennis Hauger | PREMA | + 1.095 | pm |
| 21 | Rafael Villagomez | HWA Racelab | + 1.137 | am |
| 22 | Roman Stanek | Hitech GP | + 1.294 | pm |
| 23 | Amaury Cordeel | Campos | + 1.331 | pm |
| 24 | Tijmen van der Helm | MP Motorsport | + 1.567 | am |
| 25 | Filip Ugran | Jenzer | + 1.578 | am |
| 26 | Lorenzo Colombo | Campos | + 1.690 | pm |
| 27 | Victor Martins | MP Motorsport | + 1.838 | pm |
| 28 | Reshad De Gerus | Charouz | + 2.080 | am |
| 29 | Laszlo Toth | Campos | + 2.419 | am |
Day Two
A sunny start to the second day of testing saw teams opt to conduct qualifying simulations with Novalak heading Doohan in the opening stages, as the French-Swiss driver broke F3’s track record around Jerez with 1m 28.677.
Vesti was the only other driver to break Doohan’s previous track record and dip below the 89s barrier as he finished the day 0.258s off Novalak’s time with Enzo Fittipaldi third quickest ahead of Doohan and Victor Martins.
Collet, Crawford, Smolyar, Manuel Correa and Edgar rounded out the top ten with the 23 overall quickest times being set in the morning session, as everyone spent the afternoon session gathering data and conducting race simulations.
PREMA’s current top two drivers in the standings, Dennis Hauger and Olli Caldwell however both set their quickest lap times after the lunch break to go 24th and 25th fastest overall respectively.
Hitech GP’s Ayumu Iwasa was the only driver to dip below the 90s barrier as he topped the afternoon session with 1m 29.884, with Hauger and Caldwell setting the second and third quickest lap times in the concluding session of this test.
| Position | Driver | Team | Time | Session |
| 1 | Clement Novalak | Trident | 1m 28.677 | am |
| 2 | Frederik Vesti | ART GP | + 0.258 | am |
| 3 | Enzo Fittipaldi | Charouz | + 0.383 | am |
| 4 | Jack Doohan | Trident | + 0.384 | am |
| 5 | Victor Martins | MP Motorsport | + 0.467 | am |
| 6 | Caio Collet | MP Motorsport | + 0.516 | am |
| 7 | Jak Crawford | Hitech GP | + 0.519 | am |
| 8 | Aleksandr Smolyar | ART GP | + 0.530 | am |
| 9 | Juan Manuel Correa | ART GP | + 0.539 | am |
| 10 | Jonny Edgar | Carlin | + 0.542 | am |
| 11 | Ayumu Iwasa | Hitech GP | + 0.546 | am |
| 12 | David Schumacher | Trident | + 0.581 | am |
| 13 | Matteo Nannini | HWA Racelab | + 0.656 | am |
| 14 | Roman Stanek | Hitech GP | + 0.663 | am |
| 15 | Calan Williams | Jenzer | + 0.715 | am |
| 16 | Lorenzo Colombo | Campos | + 0.865 | am |
| 17 | Kaylen Frederick | Carlin | + 0.909 | am |
| 18 | Pierre-Louis Chovet | Jenzer | + 0.942 | am |
| 19 | Oliver Rasmussen | HWA Racelab | + 0.981 | am |
| 20 | Rafael Villagomez | HWA Racelab | + 0.985 | am |
| 21 | Ido Cohen | Carlin | + 1.021 | am |
| 22 | Amaury Cordeel | Campos | + 1.066 | am |
| 23 | Reshad De Gerus | Charouz | + 1.283 | am |
| 24 | Dennis Hauger | PREMA | + 1.386 | pm |
| 25 | Olli Caldwell | PREMA | + 1.541 | pm |
| 26 | Filip Ugran | Jenzer | + 1.727 | am |
| 27 | Arthur Leclerc | PREMA | + 1.917 | am |
| 28 | Tijmen van der Helm | MP Motorsport | + 1.952 | am |
| 29 | Laszlo Toth | Campos | + 2.468 | am |
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