Dennis Hauger Snatches Pole For 2021 F3 Dutch GP Race Three

F3 Championship leader, Dennis Hauger snatched pole position for Sunday’s 2021 Dutch Race Three following a crazy opening day, which featured three red flags across Practice and Qualifying.

Jak Crawford topped a heavily disrupted Practice session but it was ultimately Hauger who took pole position in Qualifying after a tense battle against David Schumacher.

Now here is a full roundup of F3’s Practice and Qualifying action in Zandvoort.

 

Practice

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Practice was delayed five minutes but as soon as drivers eventually hit the track, they immediately struggled to find space around the circuit as Jonny Edgar almost tangled with a Jenzer car as he fought to create space.

Frederik Vesti meanwhile ruined his first flying lap after running wide through the gravel trap at Turns 11 and 12, as Juan Manuel Correa initially went top but was quickly displaced by Hauger as Ayumu Iwasa meanwhile went pirouetting on exit of Turn Four after getting wide high up on the banking.

Clement Novalak soon afterwards went top with 1m 26.419 just a minute before the red flag was waved due to gravel scattered across the circuit, which took 12 minutes to clear before the session resumed as Jack Doohan went top immediately with 1m 26.275

Hauger immediately displaced him by 0.128 seconds but Doohan struck back with a 1m 25.863 just seconds prior to a second red flag, as Tijmen Van Der Helm crashed on the exit of Turn Eight after hitting the kerb mid-corner.

Once the session resumed nine minutes later, Crawford saved his quickest lap until last as he topped the session with 1m 25.535 ahead of ART GP duo – Aleksandr Smolyar and Frederik Vesti, with title rivals, Hauger and Doohan wrapping up Practice sat fourth and sixth quickest.

Position	Driver	Team	Time
1	Jak Crawford	Hitech GP	1m 25.535
2	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART GP	+ 0.123
3	Frederik Vesti	ART GP	+ 0.157
4	Dennis Hauger	PREMA	+ 0.165
5	Clement Novalak	Trident	+ 0.302
6	Jack Doohan	Trident	+ 0.328
7	Johnathan Hoggard	Jenzer	+ 0.329
8	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	+ 0.409
9	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	+ 0.496
10	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin	+ 0.591
11	Amaury Cordeel	Campos	+ 0.646
12	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	+ 0.819
13	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA	+ 0.912
14	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech GP	+ 0.928
15	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos	+ 0.935
16	David Schumacher	Trident	+ 1.002
17	Juan Manuel Correa	ART GP	+ 1.077
18	Roman Stanek	Hitech GP	+ 1.174
19	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	+ 1.308
20	Logan Sargeant	Charouz	+ 1.383
21	Olli Caldwell	PREMA	+ 1.395
22	Ido Cohen	Carlin	+ 1.561
23	Rafael Villagomez	HWA Racelab	+ 1.574
24	Matteo Nannini	Hwa Racelab	+ 1.727
25	Hunter Yeany	Charouz	+ 2.152
26	Filip Ugran	Jenzer	+ 2.236
27	Calan Williams	Jenzer	+ 2.319
28	Laszlo Toth	Campos	+ 2.807
29	Tijmen Van Der Helm	MP Motorsport	+ 3.267
30	Zdenek Chovanec	Charouz	+ 3.563

 

Qualifying

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Qualifying was delayed by ten minutes due to a delay in F3 teams being released from the support paddock in order to join the main pit lane, with everyone soon making a frantic dash out onto circuit when Qualifying began.

Hauger set the initial pace upon completion of the opening runs ahead of David Schumacher and Arthur Leclerc, as Hitech GP drivers all opted to run in the first gap which paid off as Iwasa climbed to third before everyone else began their second runs consisting of just one flier.

Schumacher came out on top after the second round of flying laps ahead of Hauger as MP Motorsport’s Caio Collet and Victor Martins sat third and fourth, ahead of an uncharacteristic concluding third flying run.

Charouz’s Hunter Yeany made an error out of Gerlachbocht and went spinning into Hugenholtzboch, where he stalled the car and brought out a brief red flag after initially stalling but was able to restart the car and return to the pits under his own power.

The session resumed four minutes later as Doohan led out a frantic queue as Hitech’s Crawford and Roman Stanek quickly made overtakes to force their way to the front of the pack.

Come the checkered flag, Hauger delivered a last-gasp lap to snatch pole position for Sunday’s Race Three ahead of Schumacher, Martins, Doohan, Novalak, Collet, Crawford, Smolyar, Iwasa and Leclerc.

Hauger also increased his title lead over Doohan to 29 points by virtue of collecting four points for pole position.

Amaury Cordeel finished 12th and will start on reverse-pole for Saturday’s (4 September) Race One alongside Logan Sargeant who will be alongside the Belgian on the front row as the top 12 qualifiers are reversed.

Post-race, HWA Racelab’s Rafael Villagomez was handed a pitlane start for Races One and Three after he missed the weighbridge when called by stewards, instead returning to his pit crew who began work rather than return the car untouched.

Position	Driver	Team	Time
1	Dennis Hauger	PREMA	1m 24.580
2	David Schumacher	Trident	+ 0.135
3	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	+ 0.305
4	Jack Doohan	Trident	+ 0.359
5	Clement Novalak	Trident	+ 0.381
6	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	+ 0.451
7	Jak Crawford	Hitech GP	+ 0.694
8	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART GP	+ 0.765
9	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech GP	+ 0.823
10	Arthur Leclerc	PREMA	+ 0.842
11	Logan Sargeant	Charouz	+ 0.976
12	Amaury Cordeel	Campos	+ 0.987
13*	Rafael Villagomez	HWA Racelab	+ 0.994
14	Frederik Vesti	ART GP	+ 1.032
15	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos	+ 1.032
16	Olli Caldwell	PREMA	+ 1.172
17	Ido Cohen	PREMA	+ 1.172
18	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	+ 1.206
19	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	+ 1.219
20	Roman Stanek	Hitech GP	+ 1.306
21	Calan Williams	Jenzer	+ 1. 312
22	Filip Ugran	Jenzer	+ 1.467
23	Johnathan Hoggard	Jenzer	+ 1.497
24	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	+ 1.577
25	Tijmen Van Der Helm	MP Motorsport	+ 1.681
26	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin	+ 1.712
27	Juan Manuel Correa	ART GP	+ 1.829
28	Laszlo Toth	Campos	+ 2.058
29	Hunter Yeany	Charouz	+ 2.927
30	Zdenek Chovanec	Charouz	+ 3.146

*Rafael Villagomez will start Races One and Three from pitlane after missing the weighbridge in Qualifying.