Jack Doohan has taken pole position for the Formula 2 feature race in Bahrain, the Alpine junior beating Theo Pourchaire by more than a tenth of a second.
The first qualifying session of the new season came to a stop within moments of the start when Ayumu Iwasa spun his DAMS machine off at the second corner after he left the pits. The Red Bull junior ended up stuck in the gravel at the exit of turn three.
The session restarted 10 minutes later, the clock having stopped during the red flag. Van Amersfoort, Formula 2’s newest team, were first to second their cars out of the pits.
The team caused a stir by taking pole position on their FIA Formula 3 debut with Franco Colapinto earlier in the day and again looked to set the in F2. Jake Hughes set a benchmark time in the first ten minutes of the session, putting together a 1’41.469 lap before any other driver had dipped below a 1’42.
Felipe Drugovich briefly got ahead of Hughes, setting a 1’41.210. But Hughes did a second push lap…