Pre-season testing: Bortoleto leads the final day, ahead of Minì and Saucy

1’47”417. This is the time achieved by Gabriel Bortoleto for this last day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, placing him at the top of the rankings. The pair of drivers who dominated yesterday's day complete the podium: Gabriele Minì only 35 hundredths behind his competitor, and Grégoire Saucy places his car ART Grand Prix in third position. The latter had achieved the two best times in the sessions on the first day.

Gabriel Bortoleto dominates final day of pre-season testing F3. ©Formula 3

The three leading drivers fought for first position throughout the session. But the time was above all to manage the racing pace, in order to accumulate as much data as possible by multiplying the laps. This was particularly the case for ART Grand Prix, the three drivers Grégoire Saucy, Kaylen Frederick and Nikola Tsolov completed between 57 and 59 laps each. But it was Caio Collet of Van Amersfoort Racing who set the most laps of the day: 61.

The session stopped five minutes from the end, with a red flag caused by Sophia Floersch stopped on the side of the track. The session restarted for its final two minutes, but no driver took the wheel again.

This final four-hour session closes the Formula 3 pre-season tests, the last chance for the teams to prepare before the first meeting of the season on March 5, on the Sakhir track. 

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