Sargeant Doubles Carlin’s Pole Tally at Silverstone

Carlin’s Logan Sargeant has secured his first FIA Formula 2 pole position at Silverstone Circuit in round seven of the 2022 championship.

The legendary British track has become favourite of the American driver, with him previously taking back-to-back poles here in 2020 with a podium and victory in respective races. The pole position also marks Carlin’s second of the weekend, with Zak O’Sullivan setting the fastest lap in FIA Formula 3‘s qualifying earlier in the day.

ART Grand Prix’s Frederik Vesti lines up alongside Sargeant on the front-row after qualifying in second place ahead of the championship leader, Felipe Drugovich, in third.

The second place man in the standings, Theo Pourchaire set an identical time to his championship rival but it is the Brazilian who starts ahead due to the fact that his time was set before the Frenchman’s in the thirty-minute qualifying session.

Sargeant’s Carlin team-mate, Liam Lawson, rounded out the top five qualifiers with a time that was just two tenths off the top spot.

After the grid had clocked in their first round of flying laps, it was Vesti who was quickest with a nice three-tenth gap to the Virtuosi Racing’s Jack Doohan in second.

However, it didn’t take long for Sargeant to claim the top spot like he did in Friday morning’s free practice session, smashing Vesti’s time by seven tenths to go clear before the drivers dived into the pits for a set of fresh soft-compound tyres.

The American youngster looked like a man in fine form, setting purple after purple and smashing his already top time by a further five-tenths. Happy with the job he had done, Sargeant cooly entered the pits as everyone else fought for the scraps.

DAMS‘ Ayumu Iwasa found himself in sixth position, ahead of Doohan and Hitech Grand Prix’s Juri Vips.

Enzo Fittipaldi and Jehan Daruvala rounded out the top ten, meaning they will both be on the front-row of Saturday’s Sprint Race with the Indian driver on reverse grid pole position.

POS	NO	NAME	NAT	TEAM	TIME
1	6	Logan Sargeant	USA	Carlin	1:38.432
2	9	Frederik Vesti	DNK	ART Grand Prix	+0.107
3	11	Felipe Drugovich	BRA	MP Motorsport	+0.121
4	10	Theo Pourchaire	FRA	ART Grand Prix	+0.121
5	5	Liam Lawson	NZL	Carlin	+0.193
6	17	Ayumu Iwasa	JPN	DAMS	+0.302
7	3	Jack Doohan	AUS	Virtuosi Racing	+0.469
8	8	Juri Vips	EST	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.581
9	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	BRA	Charouz Racing System	+0.645
10	2	Jehan Daruvala	IND	PREMA Racing	+0.683
11	16	Roy Nissany	ISR	DAMS	+0.790
12	7	Marcus Armstrong	NZL	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.834
13	1	Dennis Hauger	NOR	PREMA Racing	+0.997
14	24	Jake Hughes	GBR	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.016
15	20	Richard Verschoor	NLD	Trident	+1.060
16	14	Olli Caldwell	GBR	Campos Racing	+1.148
17	15	Ralph Boschung	CHE	Campos Racing	+1.165
18	12	Clement Novalak	FRA	MP Motorsport	+1.228
19	4	Marino Sato	JPN	Virtuosi Racing	+1.245
20	23	Cem Bolukbasi	TUR	Charouz Racing System	+1.259
21	21	Calan Williams	AUS	Trident	+1.480
22	25	David Beckmann	GER	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.859

F2: Silverstone – Qualifying Classification