Boya fastest of all on final day of post-season F3 testing in Barcelona

Campos Racing’s Mari Boya set the fastest time of the final post-season test in Barcelona. The Bulgarian set a 1:27.209 on the second morning of running at the Spanish venue, while Hitech Pulse-Eight’s Martinius Stenshorne led the way in the afternoon.

MORNING

It was a busy start to the final day of the season as all 30 cars made their way out of the pit lane once the lights turned green with Nikola Tsolov setting the early pace on a 1:28.313.

But he was quickly demoted to P3 as Trident rookies Rafael Câmara and Noah Stromsted went first and second, respectively. The former completed a lap of 1:27.374 to go to the top, while also putting himself 0.685s clear of his 2025 teammate.

Tsolov though regained P1 on his next flying lap, a 1:27.236 placing him ahead of Câmara by 0.136s, with fellow Campos Racing driver Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak in third over three-tenths behind.

Câmara was pushing once more and despite setting the fastest times in the second and third sectors, he stayed in second but closed to within 0.7s of Tsolov.

Things got even closer at the top when Mari Boya went to P1, a 1:27.209 eclipsing Tsolov by just 0.027s as we approached the end of the first hour.

Stenshorne set the fastest time of the afternoon session on Day 2

There were no further changes to the timesheets for the next two hours of the session, although there was a brief Red Flag with 15 minutes to go after PREMA Racing’s Noel León stopped on track at Turn 13.

Running resumed with six minutes left but as the chequered flag waved on the morning’s action, Boya ended up with the fastest time ahead of Tsolov and Martinius Stenshorne.

AFTERNOON

High fuel long runs were the focus for many of the teams to start the afternoon session, although Stenshorne went fastest after completing a single push lap early on at 1:28.337 – a second and a half clear of the Hitech Pulse-Eight of Joshua Dufek.

The highest placed rookie in the afternoon was Van Amersfoort Racing’s Theophile Nael ahead of Riqui Lui, who took over for Charlie Wurz on Day 2 at Trident.

For the second consecutive afternoon running was uninterrupted and while there were no major changes to the timesheets, the drivers were busy clocking up the mileage.

The busiest of all were the PREMA Racing trio of Ugo Ugochukwu, Brando Badoer and Noel León who completed 58 laps in the afternoon session before the chequered flag was waved, bringing an end to the post-season test, the 2024 campaign and to this current generation of F3 cars.

2024 FIA FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP – BARCELONA POST-SEASON TEST, DAY 2, MORNING SESSION

Position	Driver	Licence	Team	Time	Laps
1	Mari Boya	ESP	Campos Racing	1:27.209	30
2	Nicola Tsolov	BGR	Campos Racing	1:27.236	26
3	Martinius Stenshorne	NOR	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:27.275	28
4	Rafael Câmara	BRA	Trident	1:28.306	32
5	Joshua Dufek	AUT	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:27.518	28
6	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	THA	Campos Racing	1:27.543	29
7	Bruno Del Pino	ESP	MP Motorsport	1:27.592	34
8	Tim Tramnitz	DEU	MP Motorsport	1:27.640	25
9	Noah Stromsted	DEN	Trident	1:27.646	34
10	Noel León	MEX	PREMA Racing	1:27.651	35
11	John Bennett	GBR	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:27.660	24
12	Alessandro Giusti	FRA	MP Motorsport	1:27.740	34
13	James Wharton	AUS	ART Grand Prix	1:27.754	48
14	Laurens van Hoepen	NLD	ART Grand Prix	1:27.787	45
15	Ugo Ugochukwu	USA	PREMA Racing	1:27.801	42
16	Christian Ho		Jenzer Motorsport	1:27.838	38
17	Matías Zagazeta	PER	Jenzer Motorsport	1:27.904	35
18	Javier Sagrera	ESP	AIX Racing	1:28.029	32
19	Freddie Slater	GBR	Rodin Motorsport	1:28.085	38
20	Roman Bilinski	POL	Rodin Motorsport	1:28.091	38
21	Brando Badoer	ITA	PREMA Racing	1:28.098	40
22	Theophile Nael	FRA	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:28.109	39
23	Ivan Domingues	POR	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:28.150	31
24	Tuukka Taponen	FIN	ART Grand Prix	1:28.296	46
25	Nicola Lacorte	ITA	Jenzer Motorsport	1:28.325	34
26	Gerrard Xie	CHN	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:28.407	27
27	Jesse Carrasquedo	MEX	AIX Racing	1:28.454	24
28	Jose Garfias	MEX	AIX Racing	1:28.512	32
29	Louis Sharp	NZL	Rodin Motorsport	1:28.518	36
30	Ruiqi Liu	CHN	Trident	1:29.358	36

2024 FIA FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP – BARCELONA POST-SEASON TEST, DAY 2, AFTERNOON SESSION

Position	Driver	Licence	Team	Time	Laps
1	Martinius Stenshorne	NOR	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:28.337	30
2	Joshua Dufek	AUT	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:29.919	33
3	Theophile Nael	FRA	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:30.094	51
4	Riqui Liu	CHN	Trident	1:30.181	46
5	Javier Sagrera	ESP	AIX Racing	1:30.415	14
6	Christian Ho	SGP	Jenzer Motorsport	1:30.418	28
7	Jesse Carrasquedo	MEX	AIX Racing	1:30.564	14
8	John Bennett	GBR	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:30.580	51
9	Jose Garfias	MEX	AIX Racing	1:30.674	35
10	Ivan Domingues	POR	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:30.732	50
11	Matías Zagazeta	PER	Jenzer Motorsport	1:30.794	36
12	Freddie Slater	GBR	Rodin Motorsport	1:30.915	38
13	Roman Bilinski	GBR	Rodin Motorsport	1:30.971	39
14	Louis Sharp	NZL	Rodin Motorsport	1:31.176	37
15	Nicola Lacorte	ITA	Jenzer Motorsport	1:31.926	35
16	Nikola Tsolov	BGR	Campos Racing	1:32.247	56
17	Mari Boya	ESP	Campos Racing	1:32.273	53
18	Noah Stromsted	DEN	Trident	1:32.322	42
19	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	THA	Campos Racing	1:32.464	56
20	Rafael Camara	BRA	Trident	1:32.509	25
21	Alessandro Giusti	FRA	MP Motorsport	1:32.882	52
22	Laurens van Hoepen	NLD	ART Grand Prix	1:32.938	40
23	Tim Tramnitz	DEU	MP Motorsport	1:32.983	29
24	Ugo Ugochukwu	USA	PREMA Racing	1:32.983	58
25	James Wharton	AUS	ART Grand Prix	1:33.00	38
26	Noel León	MEX	PREMA Racing	1:33.204	58
27	Brando Badoer	ITA	PREMA Racing	1:33.269	58
28	Gerrard Xie	CHN	Hitech Pulse-Eight	1:33.484	28
29	Bruno Del Pino	ESP	MP Motorsport	1:33.573	52
30	Tuukka Taponen	ITA	ART Grand Prix	1:33.792	34