2021 Barcelona Formula 3 round

  2021 Barcelona Formula 3 round

Round details
Round 1 of 7 in the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship.
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.675 km (2.905 mi)
Sprint race 1
Date 8 May 2021 Laps 21 Podium First Aleksandr Smolyar ART Grand Prix Second Clément Novalak Trident Third Caio Collet MP Motorsport Fastest lap Driver Aleksandr Smolyar ART Grand Prix Time 1:36.665 (on lap 4)
Sprint race 2
Date 8 May 2021 Laps 22 Podium First Olli Caldwell Prema Racing Second Victor Martins MP Motorsport Third Frederik Vesti ART Grand Prix Fastest lap Driver Dennis Hauger Prema Racing Time 1:36.973 (on lap 10)
Feature race
Date 9 May 2021 Laps 22 Pole position Driver Dennis Hauger Prema Racing Time 1:32.904 Podium First Dennis Hauger Prema Racing Second Jack Doohan Trident Third Matteo Nannini HWA Racelab Fastest lap Driver Dennis Hauger Prema Racing Time 1:36.643 (on lap 2)

The 2021 Barcelona FIA Formula 3 round was a motor racing event held on 8 and 9 May 2021 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain. It was the first round of the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and ran in support of the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix.

Classification

Qualifying

The Qualifying session took place on 7 May 2021, with Dennis Hauger scoring his first Formula 3 pole position, six thousandth ahead of fellow Red Bull junior Jack Doohan.^[1]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap	Grid
1	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	1:32.904	1
2	4	Jack Doohan	Trident	+0.006	2
3	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	+0.061	3
4	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	+0.209	4
5	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	+0.269	5
6	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Racing	+0.280	6
7	5	Clément Novalak	Trident	+0.321	7
8	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	+0.359	8
9	6	David Schumacher	Trident	+0.370	9
10	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	+0.401	10
11	8	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	+0.451	11
12	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin Buzz Racing	+0.466	12
13	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	+0.555	13
14	12	Roman Staněk	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.618	14
15	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	+0.631	15
16	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	+0.733	16
17	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA Racelab	+0.771	17
18	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	+0.902	18
19	11	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.961	19
20	10	Jak Crawford	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.972	20
21	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	+0.977	21
22	19	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	+1.004	22
23	24	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin Buzz Racing	+1.057	23
24	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	+1.120	24
25	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	+1.287	25
26	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin Buzz Racing	+1.429	26
27	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	+1.566	27
28	31	Reshad de Gerus	Charouz Racing System	+1.871	28
29	27	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer Motorsport	+1.874	29
30	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	+2.228	30
Source:[2]

Sprint Race 1

On the formation lap the Carlin of Ido Cohen stopped, leading to the start being aborted and one race lap being removed. Cohen was able to start from the pitlane.

Edgar had a good start as Smolyar immediately came under pressure from Caio Collet. The Russian managed to shake off the MP Motorsport driver, who was then drawn into a battle with Novalak and Logan Sargeant, and closed the gap to Edgar.

As soon as DRS was enabled, Smolyar was on the attack, sweeping past the Carlin driver to take the race lead on lap 4. Edgar tried to fight back a lap later but he couldn't get back through. Smolyar managed to break the tow to Edgar and extended a gap at the front of the field.

Edgar was soon joined by Collet, who tried to challenge Edgar for second, but allowed Trident driver Novalak to sweep through to take third after running wide.

Novalak soon snatched second from Edgar around the outside of the first corner and was closing the gap to Smolyar when the safety car was brought out with two laps remaining, after Oliver Rasmussen clipped the curb and ran into the gravel at the final corner, where he got stuck. Rasmussen's car couldn't be cleared in time for a restart and the race ended behind the safety car, allowing Smolyar to take his maiden F3 win. Collet held off Sargeant to take third, and Edgar dropped back to fifth. The battling Caldwell, Vesti and Hauger finished behind, and Martins and Nannini completed the top ten.^[3]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	8	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	21	36:23.523	2	15 (2)
2	5	Clément Novalak	Trident	21	+1.591	6	12
3	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	21	+1.951	3	10
4	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	21	+2.130	5	8
5	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin Buzz Racing	21	+2.494	1	6
6	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Racing	21	+2.857	7	5
7	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	21	+3.481	8	4
8	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	21	+3.819	12	3
9	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	21	+4.120	10	2
10	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	21	+4.543	9	1
11	6	David Schumacher	Trident	21	+4.973	4
12	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	21	+5.320	18
13	10	Jak Crawford	Hitech Grand Prix	21	+5.716	20
14	11	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech Grand Prix	21	+6.232	19
15	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	21	+7.210	13
16	12	Roman Staněk	Hitech Grand Prix	21	+7.754	14
17	4	Jack Doohan	Trident	21	+10.095	11
18	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	21	+10.349	21
19	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA Racelab	21	+11.270	17
20	31	Reshad de Gerus	Charouz Racing System	21	+11.864	28
21	19	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	21	+13.444	22
22	24	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin Buzz Racing	21	+13.925	23
23	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	21	+14.171	24
24	27	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer Motorsport	21	+18.083	29
25	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	21	+18.384	30
26	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	21	+20.506	25
27	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	21	+21.031	27
28	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	21	+21.452	15
29	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin Buzz Racing	21	+38.072	26
DNF	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	18	Accident	16
Source:[4]

Sprint Race 2

Fittipaldi led from reversed-grid pole position at the start, as the Safety Car was brought out after Smolyar had sustained a puncture in Turn 1 after contact with Novalak, which sent the Russian into the path of Sargeant. After the restart David Schumacher was able to keep up with the Brazilian, and passed him on lap 12.

Schumacher couldn't pull away however and was forced to defend three laps later, when Fittipaldi got fully alongside. Trying to go around the outside of Turn 1, Fittipaldi went wide off track and then tried to rejoin over the raised kerb at Turn 2, banging wheels with Schumacher and sending the latter crashing into the barriers. Fittipaldi continued in third behind Matteo Nannini and Dennis Hauger, only to then slow to a halt under the subsequent safety car period.

When the race restarted with five laps to go, Hauger immediately went side by side with Nannini for the lead, but the HWA driver braked late on the inside to stay out front. Going onto the penultimate lap they were then side-by-side once more, Hauger this time taking to the inside. After mounting the apex kerb he had an oversteer which led to him hitting Nannini, and was left with nowhere to go but run into his spinning rival. This led to Caldwell picking up the lead, and going into the first corner on the last lap he was forced to defend against a charging Victor Martins, leaving the Frenchman no room to go around the outside. The Prema driver won the race and picked up 15 points, ahead of Martins and a quiet Frederik Vesti. Novalak, Collet, Edgar, Iwasa, Doohan, Crawford and Juan Manuel Correa completed the top ten, with the latter scoring the first point of his racing return.^[5]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Racing	22	40:42.623	7	15
2	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	22	+0.905	4	12
3	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	22	+2.858	6	10
4	5	Clément Novalak	Trident	22	+3.742	11	8
5	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	22	+3.979	10	6
6	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin Buzz Racing	22	+4.522	8	5
7	11	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+5.008	14	4
8	4	Jack Doohan	Trident	22	+5.511	17	3
9	10	Jak Crawford	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+5.868	13	2
10	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	22	+6.467	15	1
11	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+6.757	18
12	12	Roman Staněk	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+9.862	16
13	31	Reshad de Gerus	Charouz Racing System	22	+10.328	20
14	27	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+10.919	24
15	19	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	22	+11.482	21
16	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	22	+11.979	26
17	24	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin Buzz Racing	22	+14.113	22
18	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA Racelab	22	+15.168	19
19	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	22	+15.608	30
20	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin Buzz Racing	22	+16.047	29
21	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+16.408	25
22	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	22	+16.901	23
23	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	22	+18.305	27
24	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	22	+18.552^1	28
25	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	22	+1:37.491^2	5
26	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	21	Collision	3
DNF	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	15	Electrical	1
DNF	6	David Schumacher	Trident	14	Collision	2
DNF	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	0	Collision	9
DNF	8	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	0	Collision	12
Source:[6]

Notes

• ^1 – Arthur Leclerc was given a 10-second time penalty for violation of minimum delta time under Safety Car
• ^2 – Dennis Hauger was given a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision with Matteo Nannini

Feature Race

At the start, Hauger didn't have a great launch but as he went four-wide down the long main pit straight with Doohan, Martins and Nannini, he braked last and got ahead of the others, in which Doohan lost out and fell back to fourth.

As Hauger gradually extended the gap at the front, Doohan regained momentum and passed Martins on lap nine, who had run over the sausage kerb at the exit of turn 15, and was then passed by Nannini.

Doohan then overtook Nannini for second after three further laps, as Hauger was able to pull a gap on the rest of the field. Four laps from the end, Caldwell overtook Martins for fourth, and as the gaps remained stagnant for the remainder of the race, Hauger won in dominant fashion. Doohan scored his first F3 podium, with Nannini in third. The three were followed up by Caldwell, Martins, Novalak, Vesti, Collet, Sargeant, who lost two positions on lap 21 after running wide at the final corner, and Staněk, who came home in tenth.^[7]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	22	35:47.216	1	25 (4+2)
2	4	Jack Doohan	Trident	22	+3.721	2	18
3	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA Racelab	22	+6.153	4	15
4	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Racing	22	+8.124	6	12
5	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	22	+11.548	3	10
6	5	Clément Novalak	Trident	22	+12.337	7	8
7	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	22	+13.455	5	6
8	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	22	+14.053	10	4
9	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	22	+15.435	8	2
10	12	Roman Staněk	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+15.477	14	1
11	8	Aleksandr Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	22	+16.062	11
12	6	David Schumacher	Trident	22	+16.688	9
13	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	22	+17.238	15
14	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	22	+21.249	13
15	11	Ayumu Iwasa	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+26.143	19
16	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin Buzz Racing	22	+31.767	12
17	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA Racelab	22	+32.388	16
18	10	Jak Crawford	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+32.628	20
19	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	22	+33.274	18
20	19	Tijmen van der Helm	MP Motorsport	22	+33.882	22
21	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+34.069	21
22	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin Buzz Racing	22	+37.210	26
23	31	Reshad de Gerus	Charouz Racing System	22	+37.932	28
24	27	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+38.577	29
25	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	22	+39.222	25
26	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	22	+40.548	27
27	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+53.678	30
28	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA Racelab	21	+1 Lap^1	17
29	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	21	+1 Lap	24
30	24	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin Buzz Racing	21	+1 Lap	23
Source:

Notes

• ^1 – Rafael Villagómez received a five-second time penalty for forcing Amaury Cordeel off the track in the first two corners.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Dennis Hauger 34 2 Olli Caldwell 32 3 Clément Novalak 28 4 Victor Martins 24 5 Jack Doohan 21

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Prema Racing 66 2 Trident 49 3 MP Motorsport 44 4 ART Grand Prix 38 5 HWA Racelab 16

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

• 2021 Spanish Grand Prix

References

1. "QUALIFYING: Hauger beats Doohan to first F3 pole in Barcelona". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
2. "Formula 3 2021 Result for Round 1 : Spain , Barcelona 07-09 May 2021". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
3. Waring, Bethonie (2021-05-08). "Smolyar victorious for ART in FIA F3 opener at Barcelona". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
4. "Formula 3 2021 Result for Round 1 : Spain , Barcelona 07-09 May 2021". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
5. Allen, Peter (2021-05-08). "Caldwell inherits first FIA F3 win at Barcelona after two lead collisions". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
6. "Formula 3 2021 Result for Round 2 : Spain , Barcelona 07-09 May 2021". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
7. Woollard, Craig (2021-05-09). "Hauger claims FIA F3 win and points lead in third Barcelona race". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2021-05-09.

External links

• Official website

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