2016 EuroFormula Open – Habsburg beats Pulcini to Pole on Sunday

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Habsburg (Drivex) beats Pulcini (Campos Racing) to pole position on Sunday

Pole position was decided by a mere 16 thousandths of a second. Herta (Carlin Motorsport), Fioravanti (RP Motorsport) and Menchaca (Campos Racing) rounded out the top five.

Ferdinand Habsburg (Drivex) took his second pole position in a row this morning. Sunday’s second qualifying session produced another close fight for pole position with Austria’s Habsburg managing to beat Leonardo Pulcini (Campos Racing) with his time of 2:00.046. It was just sixteen thousandths clear of the series leader!

Behind them, Colton Herta (Carlin Motorsport) delivered a strong performance and took third ahead of Damiano Fioravanti (RP Motorsport). Diego Menchaca (Campos Racing) will start fifth on the grid alongside Enaam Ahmed (DAV Racing) and both Igor Walilko (Fortec Motorsports) and Keyvan Andres (Carlin Motorsport) will share row four. Poland’s Antoni Ptak and Thailand’s Tanart Sathienthirakul, in a pair of cars entered by RP Motorsport, qualified 9th and 10th respectively.

 

Qualifying 2

1st, No. 62, Ferdinand Habsburg*^, AUT, Drivex School, Dallara F312, 2:00.046

2nd, No. 8, Leonardo Pulcini^, ITA, Campos Racing, Dallara F312, 2:00.062

3rd, No. 98, Colton Herta*, USA, Carlin, Dallara F312, 2:00.180

4th, No. 3, Damiano Fioravanti^, ITA, RP Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:00.192

5th, No. 7, Diego Menchaca^, MEX, Campos Racing, Dallara F312, 2:00.367

6th, No. 65, Enaam Ahmed, GBR*, DAV Racing, Dallara F312, 2:00.470

7th, No. 37, Igor Walilko^, POL, Fortec Motorsports, Dallara F312, 2:00.712

8th, No. 47, Keyvan Andres*, GER, Carlin, Dallara F312, 2:00.845

9th, No. 1, Antoni Ptak^, POL, RP Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:01.047

10th, No. 5, Tanart Sathienthirakul^, THA, RP Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:01.061

11th, No. 2, Kantadhee Kusiri^, THA, RP Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:01.167

12th, No. 6, Julio Moreno^, ECU, Campos Racing, Dallara F312, 2:01.178

13th, No. 72, Nikita Zlobin, RUS, Teo Martin Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:01.321

14th, No. 27, Kang Ling, CHN, DAV Racing, Dallara F312, 2:01.492

15th, No. 20, Daniil Pronenko*^, RUS, BVM Racing, Dallara F312, 2:02.053

16th, No. 18, Riccardo Cazzaniga*^, ITA, DAV Racing, Dallara F312, 2:02.059

17th, No. 9, Gulhuseyn Abdullayev*^, AZE, Campos Racing, Dallara F312, 2:02.370

18th, No. 12, Vladimir Atoev, RUS, DAV Racing, Dallara F312, 2:02.481

19th, No. 51, Ameya Vaidyanathan*, IND, Carlin, Dallara F312, 2:02.555

20th, No. 14, Jose Manuel Vilalta, MEX, Teo Martin Motorsport, Dallara F312, 2:02.791

21st, No. 15, Alex Liang, CHN, Team West-Tec, Dallara F312, 2:04.131

 

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