Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello dominates Formula Renault 3.5

The Formula 3 European champion, who switched from Strakka Racing to Arden Caterham for Friday, set his best time towards the end of the day, putting him one thousandth of a second clear of morning pacesetter Marlon Stockinger.

In setting the morning pace Stockinger became the first driver all week other than Marciello to top one of the half-day sessions.

The top three was completed by Formula Renault Eurocup runner-up Oliver Rowland, who has been a frontrunner all week with Fortec Motorsports.

"Everything went perfectly," said Rowland. "I think we could have come away with the best time if we had managed to bolt new tyres on at the end of the morning.

"We've made a lot of progress in these tests, and I've learned so much with every lap."

Next up were 2013 FR3.5 podium finishers Will Stevens and Sergey Sirotkin, who were both in action for the teams they raced for (Strakka and ISR) this year.

Marciello's dominance of this week's testing was underlined by the combined times from the three days, where his best lap from day two was nearly half a second clear of his nearest challenger.

That honour went to Carlos Sainz Jr, with Rowland another three tenths back.

The next FR3.5 test - also taking place at Aragon - starts on February 25.

Morning times

Pos Driver                  Team              Time      Gap      Laps
 1. Marlon Stockinger       Lotus             1m39.816s           54
 2. Oliver Rowland          Fortec            1m39.881s  +0.065s  30
 3. Will Stevens            Strakka           1m39.938s  +0.122s  55
 4. Raffaele Marciello      Arden             1m40.012s  +0.196s  40
 5. Pietro Fantin           Draco             1m40.161s  +0.345s  45
 6. Zoel Amberg             Arden             1m40.173s  +0.357s  41
 7. Sergey Sirotkin         ISR               1m40.235s  +0.419s  40
 8. Nikolay Martsenko       AV Formula        1m40.249s  +0.433s  45
 9. Nick Yelloly            Carlin            1m40.377s  +0.561s  46
10. Carlos Sainz Jr.        DAMS              1m40.433s  +0.617s  29
11. Dean Stoneman           Carlin            1m40.467s  +0.651s  35
12. Nico Muller             Comtec            1m40.549s  +0.733s  42
13. Norman Nato             DAMS              1m40.606s  +0.790s  38
14. Jazeman Jaafar          Lotus             1m40.620s  +0.804s  25
15. Matias Laine            Strakka           1m40.697s  +0.881s  44
16. Marco Sorensen          Tech 1            1m40.789s  +0.973s  39
17. Roman Mavlanov          Zeta Corse        1m40.821s  +1.005s  37
18. Riccardo Agostini       Pons              1m40.854s  +1.038s  43
19. Andrea Pizzitola        AV Formula        1m41.173s  +1.357s  35
20. Kimiya Sato             Pons              1m41.673s  +1.857s  44
21. William Buller          Tech 1            1m41.807s  +1.991s  44
22. Meindert van Buuren     Draco             1m42.759s  +2.943s  36
23. Jordan Oon              Zeta Corse        1m44.039s  +4.223s  32

Afternoon times

Pos Driver                  Team              Time      Gap      Laps
 1. Raffaele Marciello      Arden             1m39.815s           35
 2. Carlos Sainz Jr.        DAMS              1m39.890s  +0.075s  36
 3. Sergey Sirotkin         ISR               1m39.940s  +0.125s  38
 4. Will Stevens            Strakka           1m40.069s  +0.254s  44
 5. Marlon Stockinger       Lotus             1m40.182s  +0.367s  38
 6. Nick Yelloly            Carlin            1m40.185s  +0.370s  33
 7. Oliver Rowland          Fortec            1m40.220s  +0.405s  42
 8. Zoel Amberg             Arden             1m40.311s  +0.496s  35
 9. Dean Stoneman           Carlin            1m40.333s  +0.518s  36
10. Pietro Fantin           Draco             1m40.338s  +0.523s  31
11. Jazeman Jaafar          Lotus             1m40.354s  +0.539s  46
12. Norman Nato             DAMS              1m40.573s  +0.758s  32
13. Matias Laine            Strakka           1m40.638s  +0.823s  28
14. Riccardo Agostini       Pons              1m40.725s  +0.910s  44
15. Nico Muller             Comtec            1m40.787s  +0.972s  30
16. Andrea Pizzitola        AV Formula        1m40.813s  +0.998s  19
17. Roman Mavlanov          Zeta Corse        1m41.169s  +1.354s  28
18. Marco Sorensen          Tech 1            1m41.186s  +1.371s  31
19. Kimiya Sato             Pons              1m41.328s  +1.513s  43
20. Meindert van Buuren     Draco             1m41.366s  +1.551s  31
21. William Buller          Tech 1            1m41.396s  +1.581s  47
22. Jordan Oon              Zeta Corse        1m42.980s  +3.165s  26
23. Nikolay Martsenko       AV Formula        no time