F3 – Esteban Ocon snatches pole for C1

Who says city circuit, says essential pole position. Esteban Ocon knew this well when he arrived in Pau, he who discovered the layout of the Pau city. Already in testing, the young 17-year-old Frenchman had achieved the best performance in EL2 after taking second place in EL1 behind Max Verstappen. Between the Prema driver and the Dutchman from the Van Amersfoort team, the duel was launched and culminated during the qualification of the second group in the afternoon.

If Lucas Auer (Mücke Motorsport) had set the best time in the first group, automatically granting him a place on the front row, we suspected that pole position for the first race would be played out between Verstappen and Ocon. And the Frenchman managed in his last lap to snatch pole by 24 thousandths. A very good operation for the Prema driver, because overtaking on the Pau circuit is an extremely complicated exercise.

The first race will therefore take place tomorrow at 11:15 a.m. The opportunity for Ocon to further increase his lead at the top of the championship who will start alongside Lucas Auer, best performer in the first group.