British F3 Testing: Lubin and Sagrera fastest on Friday at Silverstone

The BRDC British Formula 3 Championship is at Silverstone for the second round of the season, with testing taking place on Thursday and Friday at all rounds except Spa-Francorchamps.

Reece Ushijima (Hitech GP) and Frederick Lubin (Arden Motorsport) were fastest in the Thursday morning sessions, while Roberto Faria (Fortec Motorsport) topped the times in the afternoon.

Track action continued on Friday afternoon, with Lubin fastest ahead of team-mate Alex Connor in the fifth session of the test.

A dry track greeted the drivers for the first of two 35-minute sessions, with times quickly around those seen in the final session on Thursday, in which Faria set a 1:55.440 around the GP circuit.

Javier Sagrera set a 1:55.885 in the early stages, ahead of Bart Horsten and Zak O’Sullivan.

Faria went top again with a 1:55.689 with 10 minutes remaining, while Christian Mansell, O’Sullivan and Reema Juffali also improved.

Tom Lebbon (Elite Motorsport) and Sebastian Alvarez (Hitech GP) improved to fourth and fifth, while Alex Connor went second.

Lubin set consecutive fastest laps of testing to date, with a 1:55.081 putting him almost half a second ahead of his Arden team-mate Connor.

Dexter Patterson (Douglas Motorsport) jumped José Garfias (Elite) in the closing stages to go 11th.

Lubin ended the session on top, as he did in the second session on Thursday.

Connor sat four tenths behind, two tenths clear of Thursday afternoon’s fastest man Faria.

The Elite Motorsport pair of Tom Lebbon and Javier Sagrera were fourth and fifth, with the two Hitechs of Ushijima and Alvarez separated by less than a tenth.

Zak O’Sullivan led Horsten by four thousandths in eighth, as the times fell outside a second of Lubin’s fastest lap.

Christian Mansell led Patterson, Garfias and Ayrton Simmons.

Bryce Aron was 14th, ahead of Reema Juffali, Mikkel Grundtvig (Fortec) and Max Marzorati.

2021 Silverstone GP Fifth Test Session Results:

Pos.	No.	Name	Nat.	Team	Time/Gap
1	78	Frederick Lubin	GBR	Arden Motorsport	1:55.081
2	27	Alex Connor	GBR	Arden Motorsport	+0.457
3	7	Roberto Faria	BRA	Fortec Motorsport	+0.608
4	3	Javier Sagrera	ESP	Elite Motorsport	+0.674
5	34	Tom Lebbon	GBR	Elite Motorsport	+0.691
6	13	Reece Ushijima	JPN	Hitech GP	+0.693
7	14	Sebastian Alvarez	MEX	Hitech GP	+0.756
8	51	Zak O’Sullivan	GBR	Carlin	+0.989
9	50	Bart Horsten	AUS	Hitech GP	+0.993
10	21	Christian Mansell	AUS	Carlin	+1.195
11	55	Dexter Patterson	GBR	Douglas Motorsport	+1.283
12	99	Jose Garfias	MEX	Elite Motorsport	+1.357
13	18	Ayrton Simmons	GBR	Chris Dittmann Racing	+1.502
14	23	Bryce Aron	USA	Carlin	+1.528
15	10	Reema Juffali	SAU	Douglas Motorsport	+2.133
16	43	Mikkel Grundtvig	DEN	Fortec Motorsport	+2.297
17	81	Max Marzorati	GBR	Chris Dittmann Racing	+2.336

Javier Sagrera topped the final session of testing at Silverstone, less than a tenth clear of Dexter Patterson who matched his two second-place finishes on Thursday afternoon.

The Arden pair of Alex Connor and Frederick Lubin filled the second row, just under two tenths ahead of Sebastian Alvarez and Thursday afternoon’s pace-setter, Roberto Faria.

Zak O’Sullivan and Reece Ushijima sat five tenths behind Sagrera in seventh and eighth, with Tom Lebbon splitting the Japanese driver and his Hitech team-mate Bart Horsten.

Horsten led Christian Mansell for the second session in a row, pipping his countryman at Carlin for 10th.

Mansell’s team-mate Bryce Aron took 12th, four hundredths ahead of Jose Garfias and Ayrton Simmons.

Simmons was three tenths clear of Chris Dittmann Racing team-mate Max Marzorati who took 15th, with Reema Juffali and Mikkel Grundtvig rounding out the field.

Qualifying and Race 1 will be held on Saturday, with Races 2 and 3 sandwiching the Intelligent Money British GT Championship‘s three-hour Silverstone 500.

You can follow all the action on The Checkered Flag.

2021 Silverstone GP Sixth Test Session Results:

Pos.	No.	Name	Nat.	Team	Time/Gap
1	3	Javier Sagrera	ESP	Elite Motorsport	1:55.409
2	55	Dexter Patterson	GBR	Douglas Motorsport	+0.085
3	27	Alex Connor	GBR	Arden Motorsport	+0.154
4	78	Frederick Lubin	GBR	Arden Motorsport	+0.168
5	12	Sebastian Alvarez	MEX	Hitech GP	+0.324
6	7	Roberto Faria	BRA	Fortec Motorsport	+0.367
7	51	Zak O’Sullivan	GBR	Carlin	+0.518
8	13	Reece Ushijima	JPN	Hitech GP	+0.584
9	34	Tom Lebbon	GBR	Elite Motorsport	+0.635
10	50	Bart Horsten	AUS	Hitech GP	+0.744
11	21	Christian Mansell	AUS	Carlin	+1.265
12	23	Bryce Aron	USA	Carlin	+1.311
13	99	Jose Garfias	MEX	Elite Motorsport	+1.352
14	18	Ayrton Simmons	GBR	Chris Dittmann Racing	+1.356
15	81	Max Marzorati	GBR	Chris Dittmann Racing	+1.735
16	10	Reema Juffali	SAU	Douglas Motorsport	+1.821
17	43	Mikkel Grundtvig	DEN	Fortec Motorsport	+2.263