Christian Lundgaard steals pole from Dan Ticktum by 0.005s ahead of the 2020 F2 Tuscan Grand Prix

Christian Lundgaard claimed his first pole position of the F2 season as the Dane qualified five-thousandths quicker than Dan Ticktum.

Qualifying

Mugello welcomed the F2 drivers to the circuit in the midst of the Tuscan hills. The first time Formula 2 visited the Mugello circuit was in 1974 and its last was in the year 2000.

Most of the drivers left the pit-lane to have a look at the very interesting and high-speed Italian circuit.

Roy Nissany was the driver at the front of the leading pack, with the rest of the 21 drivers followed the Israelian out.

Mick Schumacher dipped his tyre into the gravel as the Prema driver somehow managed to keep it out of the wall. Luca Ghiotto followed suit as he went wide at Turn Six.

Nissany set a time of 1:31.710, but Jahun Daruvala, Nikita Mazepin, Felipe Drugovich, Robert Shwartzman, Dan Ticktum, Juri Vips, Christian Lundgaard and Marcus Armstrong eclipsed the time set by the Trident driver. Armstrong was the fastest of the drivers only three-hundredths faster than his teammate.

After the second runs of the drivers, Lundgaard set a sub 1:32, with Ticktum seven-hundredths behind the Dane. Drugovich rounded out the top three, one and a half tenths behind Lundgaard.

Ten minutes were left on the clock with a cluster of drivers rushing out of the pits apart. Armstrong was at the start of the pack with his teammate and the Hitech’s following.

Armstong was able to get up to third, while Lundgaard improved his time for provisional pole. Ticktum was up by five-hundredths on the fastest middle sector but the two hairpins saw the DAMS driver lose time on Lundgaard, meaning the Dane qualified on pole.

Final Grid For The Race

A first pole for Christian Lundgaard saw the Dane start on the front row alongside Dan Ticktum. Championship leader Callum Ilott qualified in third with Marcus Armstong joined the Brit. Felipe Drugovich was able to qualify fifth and Jahun Daruvala an impressive sixth. Juri Vips in seventh, Luca Ghiotto in eighth, Robert Shwartzman in ninth and Jack Aitken completed the top ten.

Championship challenger Yuki Tsunoda was only able to qualify P11 as Louis Deletraz qualified P12. Guanyu Zhou qualified P13 as he may go on the alternate strategy with Nikita Mazepin in P14. Mick Schumacher’s lap was only good for P15 with Pedro Piquet in P16. The Trident pair of Marino Sato and Roy Nissany qualified P17 and P18 respectively with the BWT HWA Racelab pair of Artem Markelov and Giuliano Alesi in P19 and P20. Nobuharu Matsushita and Guilherme Samaia qualified at the back of the grid in P21 and P22.

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