{"id":683521,"date":"2026-05-20T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:37:09","slug":"as-it-happened-follow-the-action-from-spielberg-day-1-in-season-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683521\/","title":{"rendered":"AS IT HAPPENED: Follow the action from Spielberg Day 1 in-season testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc1 DAY 1 IS COMPLETE \ud83c\udfc1<\/p>\n<p>Stromsted ends the afternoon fastest of all for TRIDENT but Ugochukwu&#8217;s time from this morning was the quickest overall.<\/p>\n<p>Here is your top 10 from this afternoon&#8217;s session:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Stromsted &#8211; 1:20.451<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Slater &#8211; 1:20.499<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Lacorte &#8211; 1:20.932<br \/>\n4 &#8211; Sharp &#8211; 1:20.947<br \/>\n5 &#8211; De Palo &#8211; 1:21.019<br \/>\n6 &#8211; Taponen &#8211; 1:21.041<br \/>\n7 &#8211; Giusti &#8211; 1:21.093<br \/>\n8 &#8211; Ugochukwu &#8211; 1:21.142<br \/>\n9 &#8211; Colnaghi &#8211; 1:21.321<br \/>\n10 &#8211; Nakamura &#8211; 1:21.326<\/p>\n<p>Less than 30 minutes to go<\/p>\n<p>And there are a few improvements to report. Nicola Lacorte has gone P3 for DAMS Lucas Oil and Sharp has moved up to P4 for PREMA<\/p>\n<p>TRIDENT 1-2-3<\/p>\n<p>Stromsted goes P1 with a 1:20.451, 0.3s quicker than teammate Slater, with de Palo in P3<\/p>\n<p>Long running the focus now<\/p>\n<p>Benavides puts AIX up to second place 0.049s behind Nakamura but race running is the priority for the majority at the moment<\/p>\n<p>Hitech take over<\/p>\n<p>Jin Nakamura goes quickest of all with a 1:21.326 and teammate Woohyun Shin slots into P2, with Fionn McLaughlin fourth behind Kato<\/p>\n<p>Kato still fastest so far<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese driver bettered his earlier effort to bring the time to beat down to a 1:21.407 ahead of teammate Gladysz<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2 GREEN FLAG \ud83d\udfe2<\/p>\n<p>Back to green in Spielberg<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 RED FLAG \ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>Noah Stromsted has stopped on track in his TRIDENT<\/p>\n<p>ART wasting no time<\/p>\n<p>Taito Kato is top of the times and leading an ART 1-2-3 with a 1:21.707<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2 GREEN AGAIN \ud83d\udfe2<\/p>\n<p>We are live for the second half of Day 1 here in Spielberg<\/p>\n<p>AFTERNOON SESSION COMING UP \u23f1\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>We will be underway again soon with more on-track action<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc1 AM SESSION DONE \ud83c\udfc1<\/p>\n<p>Ugochukwu ends up fastest ahead of Tuukka Taponen, who improved late on to go ahead of Slater in P3<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Ugochukwu &#8211; 1:20.368<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Taponen &#8211; 1:20.441<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Slater &#8211; 1:20.585<br \/>\n4 &#8211; Badoer &#8211; 1:20.675<br \/>\n5 &#8211; Benavides &#8211; 1:20.749<br \/>\n6 &#8211; Sharp &#8211; 1:20.755<br \/>\n7 &#8211; Yamakoshi &#8211; 1:20.789<br \/>\n8 &#8211; Clerot &#8211; 1:20.902<br \/>\n9 &#8211; Stromsted &#8211; 1:20.928<br \/>\n10 &#8211; Nakamura &#8211; 1:20.975<\/p>\n<p>UGOCHUKWU GOES P1<\/p>\n<p>Campos Racing&#8217;s Ugo Ugochukwu brings the benchmark time down to a 1:20.368, 0.217s clear of rival Slater in P2<\/p>\n<p>BENAVIDES LEADS ONCE MORE<\/p>\n<p>With just over 20 minutes to go of the morning session, Benavides tops the times for AIX on a 1:20.749<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 RED FLAG \ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>Jose Garfias has gone off the circuit at the final corner<\/p>\n<p>SHARP TAKES OVER<\/p>\n<p>PREMA&#8217;s Louis Sharp goes quickest now on a 1:20.755<\/p>\n<p>SLATER HITS THE FRONT<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s TRIDENT&#8217;s Freddie Slater that now leads the pack on a 1:21.697<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2 GREEN AGAIN \ud83d\udfe2<\/p>\n<p>Back to it in Spielberg<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 RED FLAG \ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>We have a Red Flag with just over an hour and a half of the morning to go.<\/p>\n<p>ART Grand Prix driver Kanato Lee has had a spin at Turn 7 and become stuck in the gravel trap<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 TIMES ARE COMING IN \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>PREMA Racing hit the front with James Wharton setting a 1:30.918 to lead both his teammates in second and third.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty more green and purple sesctors and it&#8217;s now AIX Racing&#8217;s Brad Benavides that leads the way with a 1:21.870<\/p>\n<p>NO TIMES JUST YET<\/p>\n<p>Teams are working through their programmes and that begins with basic checks and installation laps<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2 GREEN LIGHT \ud83d\udfe2<\/p>\n<p>We are underway and drivers are heading out onto circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s back in the pitlane after a few systems checks<\/p>\n<p>GOOD MORNING FROM RED BULL RING!<\/p>\n<p>We are raring to get going and sure you are too. It&#8217;s day one of two here in Spielberg of in-season testing for the F3 teams and drivers, all of whom are gearing up to get out on track this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc1 DAY 1 IS COMPLETE \ud83c\udfc1 Stromsted ends the afternoon fastest of all for TRIDENT but Ugochukwu&#8217;s time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-683521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}