Barcellona, time to make a difference
The FIA Formula 3 Championship will be running In Europe for the third time in the season, the second on a traditional track. After the always fascinating and unpredictable event of Monte Carlo, the spotlights will be on the Montmelò facility, located northwest of Barcelona. It will be round 5 of 2024 . The category arrives at the Catalan facility in a moment of great balance, with the first three drivers at the top of the championship standings covered by eight points.
The fifth position achieved in the Feature Race held in the Principality did not allow Leonardo Fornaroli to defend the driver's championship lead. The nineteen-year-old from Piacenza, who this year already achieved three podiums and a pole position, will be hunting for his first success of the season on the ups and downs of the circuit track, which would give him an excellent chance of regaining the lead in the championship.
A perfect weekend will be needed, but it is precisely in this decisive phase of the season that the difference must be made. The Italian set the second fastest time overall in the collective tests held by the category in Montmelò April 16 to 20, a result which certainly represents a good start in view of next weekend's commitment, prepared with the utmost care by the Italian squad and by Trident Motorsport staff. 20-year-old from Marseille driver Sami Meguetounif and his Mexican peer Santiago Ramos also surely showed excellent condition at the Catalan event, highlighting a positive debut in the category, The Frenchman taking his first podium in Imola, where the teammate from Guadalajara had seized the pole position. Both will be at their racing debut on a F3 car in Barcelona, where the two rookies have all it takes to have a competitive weekend.
Giacomo Ricci, Team Manager: “At the end of the next round, the series will reach the mid-season mark: this is the time to produce maximum effort to make a difference against our rivals and define our objectives for the second part of the season. season. We have the potential to execute a competitive weekend, but we will need maximum determination and concreteness to achieve our objectives. The Catalan one is a very technical and demanding system. The gaps will be minimal. For this reason, the quality of our performance will be even more decisive."Time to make a difference
FIA Formula 3 will start on Friday at 9.55 with the 45-minute free practice session. The Qualifying session is scheduled on the same day at 3:00 pm. Saturday will be the moment of the Sprint Race, at 10.40 am. The Feature Race, which will conclude the weekend, will start on Sunday at 10.05 The activity on the track will be fully broadcast live on Sky Formula 1.