Noel León and Santiago Ramos with difficult qualification in Austria

The qualifying session of the FIA Formula 3 in Austria, the prelude to the Formula 1it has not been easy for the Mexican pilots Noel Leon and Santiago Ramos who will have to work from the middle of the grid in the sprint and feature competitions on Saturday and Sunday to score points.

Monterrey native Noel León set the best time in the first part of qualifying with a time of 1m20.804s to beat Italian Gabriele Mini. The situation seemed to be on the side of the VAR team member because a light rain began to fall on the Spielberg circuit and seemed to reduce the pace of his rivals.

But in the end it was Luke Browning from the Hitech team who took first place with a time of 1m20.222s with Arvid Lindblad placing himself behind him.

León did not manage to place himself at the top and fell in the classifier to position 13 after closing with 1m20.680s, leaving him one place away from winning the pole position for the reverse grid of Saturday’s competition.

The Mexican Santiago Ramos, a competitor for the Trident team, placed 15th, 0.764s behind the pole position after jumping up the positions in his final attempt when at the beginning he was in the lower places.

Villagómez complicated in F2 in Austria

MP Motorsport driver Dennis Haugher claimed first place in Formula 2 qualifying with a time of 1m15.487s, beating Paraguayan Joshua Durksen by just 8 thousandths of a second.

The Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto and the Argentine Franco Colapinto will be in the second row.

The Mexican Rafael Villagomez He will start both races from 18th place after setting a best time of 1m16.270s, seven-tenths of a second behind the poleman.

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