Minì debuted in style in F3 with the Pole in Bahrain

One of the rookies, Bortoletto, set the best time in the first fast session with a 1’47” 814 and was 30k better than an Alpine protégé, Mino. However, the Italian was moving up to pole position after the Brazilian lost his time due to track limits, which is It also happened to many of his opponents.

With the second set of tyres, Pepe Martí managed to set the best time, but like Bortoleto in the previous session, he lost it for going over the track limits. Caio Collet put the best time ahead of Gregoire Soucy and Zac O’Sullivan by the minimum. At the moment, there are three experienced riders in the top three.

With less than ten minutes remaining, some drivers began fitting their last set of tires to ensure a good time in the event of a red flag on the final stage. Mino was Hitec’s first great reference, three-tenths ahead of his teammate, Sebastian Montoya. The Italian at 1’47″118 was the record for beating his rivals.

On the last lap, Mino improved his time by 55 thousandths of a second, and that time was never able to be beaten by anyone else. Bortoleto was really close and less than half a tenth, and Saucy turned the pre-season good vibes into a strong final lap to finish third, with a great chance to go wide in Sunday’s race.

Oliver Goethe moved into fourth, ahead of Hugh Barter, fifth and Campos Racing’s best while Caelen Frederick finished sixth. Leonardo Fornaroli was third in the Trident with a good start in seventh and in the same tenth place as the three Prema drivers. Paul Aaron was eighth, Dino Pejanovic ninth, and O’Sullivan tenth.

The Briton was close to first, but made a mistake in the third sector that dropped him to tenth. Once again, Formula 3 once again shows that any thousandths is key to moving up one or two places. In addition, it is worth noting that Franco Colapinto, the man on pole in 2022, has been excluded from the reversed grid positions, since he was thirteen.

Pepe Marti finished 12th and will be the driver to start from pole for tomorrow’s race. The young Spaniard has a fantastic opportunity to impress in the first race of the year after entering the reversed grid positions. Of course, next to him will be an already experienced pilot like Caio Collet, now in the ranks of the VAR and with the aim of starting 2023 with a triumph.