Dino Beganovic tops F2’s sole practice session in Budapest. The top six were covered by just two tenths. Multiple drivers, like in F3 practice, struggled with Turn 14 and locking up into Turn One. A lock up that was costly for Mari Boya, caused a red flag.
All Different Teams In The Top Six
The first few minutes of the session saw drivers do installation laps. When they finally hit the track to get lap times on the board it was Rafael Câmara out the box who had pace.
A quarter into the session the Brazilian driver remained four tenths clear of the rest of the grid. Sebastián Montoya showed early pace jumping into P2. He was one and half tenths off Câmara round Budapest’s circuit. When the red flag came out, the two of them remained one and two. Gabriele Miní sat in third and Nicolás Varrone was in an impressive fourth. Unlike most drivers on the gird, it was the Argentine’s first time at the circuit.
Following the red flag, times went tumbling down the order. Championship leader Nikola Tsolov went to the top briefly before losing his time to track limits. Alexander Dunne was another driver to lose an improvement after going over the white lines. When the checkered flag fell, it was Beganovic who was at the top of the time sheet. The Swedish-Bosnian driver finished P1 with a 1:30.720. He’ll hope to carry that momentum through to qualifying after suffering a DNF in the feature race last time out in Spa.
The session finished with the top six all being from different teams. A Dams Lucas Oil, MP Motorsport, Van Amersfoort Racing, Campos Racing, Rodin Motorsport and Invicta racing had a driver each in the first six places. Câmara, after starting the session on top, rounded out that group.
Huge Lock Ups For Several Drivers Ends One Driver’s Session
With a dry European summer, the Hungaroring hasn’t had the dust washed away significantly. Several drivers struggled in practice with finding grip after going wide. Teammates Câmara and Joshua Dürksen had identical moments in turn 14 moments after each other. Both Invicta Racing drivers missed the apex and went wide. Going onto the dusty part of the track meant they both struggled for grip and went into the runoff area. Dunne was another driver to go off at the last corner after similarly drifting wide and lacking grip.
Several also struggled with locking up into Turn One. Cian Sheilds later in the session suffered a heavy lock up and Oliver Goethe was another driver to suffer a similar scenario. It was Boya, however, who would suffer the most. The Aston Martin academy driver locked both front wheels extremely with the rears locking not long after.
The intial lock up wouldn’t be the end of his struggles as not many laps after, he once again had a huge lock up into Turn One. The second one led to him unable to slow the car enough to steer himself away from the barriers. The Spaniard caused the only red flag of the session as his car had to be recovered. It’s unclear if it was a driver error or an issue with brake configuration.
Boya will hope to have found a fix for his struggles by the time F2 qualifying rolls around in the afternoon.