Monza F2: Tsunoda leads Lundgaard in practice

Carlin driver Tsunoda, who is set to drive for AlphaTauri in Formula 1’s post-season rookie test in December, set a 1m32.169s halfway through the 45-minute session.  

This benchmark remained unbeaten with Renault junior Christian Lundgaard coming the closest with a lap 0.058s adrift of Tsunoda’s time.  

ART Grand Prix driver Lundgaard struggled for pace early in the session but was one of the only drivers to improve in the final 10 minutes.  

Nikita Mazepin, who lost the Spa feature win to Tsunoda due to a post-race penalty, completed the top three for Hitech GP.  

DAMS’ Dan Ticktum, who missed last Friday’s practice session due to an inconclusive COVID-19 test, set the fourth-fastest time ahead of Ferrari junior Marcus Armstrong, who is yet to score a point since the second Red Bull Ring round.  

Armstrong’s Ferrari stablemates Callum Ilott (Virtuosi) and Mick Schumacher (Prema) posted the sixth and seventh fastest efforts respectively.  

Pedro Piquet was eighth-quickest for Charouz Racing System ahead of Italian series veteran Luca Ghiotto and Williams F1 reserve driver Jack Aitken.  

Another Ferrari junior Giuliano Alesi, who crashed exiting the pitlane in practice at Spa, enjoyed a quieter run to set the 11th fastest time of the session.  

New championship leader Robert Shwartzman was the slowest of the five Ferrari juniors in 12th place for Prema, over seven-tenths off Tsunoda’s time.  

Red Bull junior Juri Vips, who is participating in his second F2 weekend with DAMS, was 15th fastest.  

Trident’s Roy Nissany, fresh from edging four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel in his second F1 free practice outing for Williams, recorded the 18th quickest time in F2 practice.  

There was a brief virtual safety car period with just over 20 minutes of the session remaining when Campos Racing’s Guilherme Samaia pulled off the circuit on the exit of the first chicane with smoke billowing out of the rear of his car.  

Monza F2 - Practice results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	7	Yuki Tsunoda	Carlin	1'32.169
2	6	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	1'32.227	0.058
3	24	Nikita Mazepin	HitechGP	1'32.232	0.063
4	2	Dan Ticktum	DAMS	1'32.444	0.275
5	5	Marcus Armstrong	ART Grand Prix	1'32.522	0.353
6	4	Callum Ilott	UNI-Virtuosi	1'32.632	0.463
7	20	Mick Schumacher	Prema Powerteam	1'32.637	0.468
8	12	Pedro Piquet	Charouz Racing System	1'32.652	0.483
9	25	Luca Ghiotto	HitechGP	1'32.695	0.526
10	9	Jack Aitken	Campos Racing	1'32.726	0.557
11	17	Giuliano Alesi	HWA AG	1'32.852	0.683
12	21	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Powerteam	1'32.917	0.748
13	11	Louis Deletraz	Charouz Racing System	1'32.929	0.760
14	14	Nobuharu Matsushita	MP Motorsport	1'32.946	0.777
15	1	Jüri Vips	DAMS	1'33.016	0.847
16	8	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1'33.030	0.861
17	16	Artem Markelov	HWA AG	1'33.194	1.025
18	22	Roy Nissany	Trident	1'33.230	1.061
19	3	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi	1'33.249	1.080
20	15	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	1'33.465	1.296
21	23	Marino Sato	Trident	1'33.485	1.316
22	10	Guilherme Samaia	Campos Racing	1'34.090	1.921
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