Sargeant Continues Red Hot Form With Pole at Paul Ricard

Carlin’s Logan Sargeant is continuing to prove his potential with another pole position in the 2022 FIA Formula 2 championship, with just three hundredths of a second separating the top three qualifiers in Le Castellet.

The Williams junior left it late to steal the pole from DAMS’ Ayumu Iwasa who was on provisional until Sargeant’s last second lap. The Japanese driver ended up just six-thousandths of a second off the pole time of Sargeant.

Frederik Vesti completed the top three after out-qualifying early championship candidate and ART Grand Prix team-mate, Théo Pourchaire once again.

The Frenchman who will be enjoying his home race weekend qualified in fifth place, just behind Virtuosi Racing’s Jack Doohan who qualified in fourth.

Championship leader Felipe Drugovich had another consistent qualifying and put himself onto the third row of the grid in sixth place where he will line-up alongside Pourchaire.

The soaring temperatures that were present at the southern French circuit played a part in the careful preparation laps that the grid had to go through before they started their flying laps.

The two Hitech Grand Prix drivers of Jüri Vips and Marcus Armstrong occupy the fourth row of the grid in seventh and eighth, respectively, with just half a second seperating the top eight qualifiers.

The pole-sitters team-mate, Liam Lawson, will start from ninth in the Feature Race and on the front row of the reverse grid Sprint Race, with PREMA Racing’s Jehan Daruvala starting on the reverse grid pole for Saturday’s Sprint.

Daruvala’s team-mate, Dennis Hauger, brought out the red flags with seven minutes to go after being forced to stop on track with an issue with his Dallara F2/18. The Norwegian F3 champion will start both races of the weekend from eighteenth place.

POS	NO.	NAME	NAT	TEAM	TIME
1	6	Logan Sargeant	USA	Carlin	1:43.871
2	17	Ayumu Iwasa	JPN	DAMS	+0.006
3	9	Frederik Vesti	DNK	ART Grand Prix	+0.029
4	3	Jack Doohan	AUS	Virtuosi Racing	+0.163
5	10	Théo Pourchaire	FRA	ART Grand Prix	+0.290
6	11	Felipe Drugovich	BRA	MP Motorsport	+0.370
7	8	Jüri Vips	EST	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.437
8	7	Marcus Armstrong	NZL	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.506
9	5	Liam Lawson	NZL	Carlin	+0.612
10	2	Jehan Daruvala	IND	PREMA Racing	+0.755
11	20	Richard Verschoor	NLD	Trident	+0.887
12	4	Marino Sato	JPN	Virtuosi Racing	+0.968
13	21	Calan Williams	AUS	Trident	+1.047
14	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	BRA	Charouz Racing System	+1.164
15	15	Roberto Merhi	ESP	Campos Racing	+1.230
16	12	Clément Novalak	FRA	MP Motorsport	+1.246
17	24	David Beckmann	GER	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.432
18	1	Dennis Hauger	NOR	PREMA Racing	+1.526
19	25	Amaury Cordeel	BEL	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.634
20	16	Roy Nissany	ISR	DAMS	+1.871
21	14	Olli Caldwell	GBR	Campos Racing	+1.872
22	23	Cem Bölükbasi	TUR	Charouz Racing System	+1.902

F2: Le Castellet – Qualifying Classification