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Baptista dominates first EF Open qualifying at Silverstone

by Gruz David
Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Vitor Baptista claimed the pole position for race one in Euroformula Open at Silverstone.

The Brazilian, who is spending his first racing season in Europe, topped the session with a convincing gap of half a second.

Fellow newcomer Leonardo Pulcini will join him on the front row, narrowly staying ahead of practice pacesetter Yu Kanamaru who had to settle for third.

Alessio Rovera in fourth was another driver just holding on to his position as Igor Walilko and Tanart Sathienthirakul were only 0.001s and 0.014s behind the Italian respectively.

Andres Saravia took seventh followed by championship leader Konstantin Tereshchenko, Yarin Stern and Damiano Fioravanti.

Qualifying results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport 1:53.045 13
2 Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing 1:53.582 0.537 11
3 Yu Kanamaru EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:53.600 0.555 12
4 Alessio Rovera BVM Racing 1:53.767 0.722 11
5 Igor Walilko RP Motorsport 1:53.768 0.723 13
6 Tanart Sathienthirakul Team West-Tec F3 1:53.781 0.736 13
7 Andres Saravia RP Motorsport 1:54.005 0.960 12
8 Konstantin Tereschenko Campos Racing 1:54.011 0.966 12
9 Yarin Stern Team West-Tec F3 1:54.062 1.017 15
10 Damiano Fioravanti RP Motorsport 1:54.161 1.116 12
11 Diego Menchaca Campos Racing 1:54.543 1.498 13
12 Antoni Ptak RP Motorsport 1:55.034 1.989 14
13 Henrique Baptista Campos Racing 1:55.481 2.436 14
14 Alexey Chuklin Corbetta Competizioni 1:55.642 2.597 14
15 Ahmad Al Ghanem Campos Racing 1:55.662 2.617 13
16 William Barbosa BVM Racing 1:55.788 2.743 3
17 Jose Manuel Vilalta EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1:57.461 4.416 14