PRACTICE: Câmara makes fast start in Melbourne for TRIDENT

13 March 2025

Rafael Câmara and TRIDENT started 2025 on the front foot, going quickest in Free Practice around the Albert Park circuit.

The Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy talent set a 1:34.652 just before a Red Flag stopped the session late on. He finished ahead of MP Motorsport’s Tim Tramnitz in second and Mari Boya of Campos Racing in third.

It was Rodin Motorsport’s Louis Sharp who got the ball rolling by setting a 1:38.676 and the early time to beat, before lowering that to a 1:37.009 on his next attempt.

Teammate Roman Bilinski improved on that effort, but Hitech TGR driver Joshua Dufek set the next benchmark time, 1:36.384 putting him 0.2s ahead of the Rodin in second position. He then lowered his best on the following lap to go onto a 1:35.402.

TRIDENT’s Câmara was the first to get beneath the 1:35 mark, going fastest with just over 20 minutes to go on a 1:34.901.

Mari Boya joined him shortly afterwards, moving himself up to second, just 0.007s adrift of Câmara, while his Campos Racing teammate Nikola Tsolov went third quickest behind him.

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Tramnitz then took over at the top next for MP, 1:34.892 good enough to better the Brazilian by 0.009s, as the session ticked towards the final 15 minutes.

There was one final change of the leaderboard, with Câmara saving his best effort for last and setting a 1:34.652 to retake top spot. But the session came to an early end as Louis Sharp stopped on the track ahead of Turn 4, bringing out the Red Flags with five minutes to go. With little time remaining, the session was not restarted.

Tramnitz and Boya ended up in second and third places respectively, while Tsolov and Noah Stromsted completed the top five.

Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak was sixth in a positive session for Campos, followed by Dufek, Martinius Stenshorne, Alessandro Giusti and Santiago Ramos in the top 10.

Qualifying is set to get underway around Albert Park at 14:00 local time.