Nirei Fukuzumi leads ART one-two in Barcelona GP3 test
ART driver Nirei Fukuzumi set the fastest time on the first day of the second GP3 pre-season test at Barcelona
Fukuzumi's best lap, a 1m33.685s, was set just under an hour into the afternoon session and put him 0.435 seconds clear of his ART team-mate Anthoine Hubert.
Jenzer Motorsport's Arjun Maini, who had been quickest after the wet-to-dry morning session, ended up in third place, 0.775s adrift of Fukuzumi's best time of the day.
Mercedes Formula 1 junior driver George Russell - the 2014 BRDC Formula 4 champion and McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner - finished the day in fourth place, ahead of Alessio Lorandi in the second Jenzer machine.
Giuliano Alesi and Kevin Jorg finished sixth and seventh for Trident, with Jack Aitken eighth in the last of the ART entries.
Italian F4 champion Marcos Siebert was ninth for Campos Racing, which has so far only confirmed Julien Falchero in its line up for the 2017 season, as Santino Ferrucci rounded out the top 10 for DAMS.
After much of the morning running was lost while the track tried out, three red flags - caused by Leonardo Pulcini, Dorian Boccolacci and Russell stopping on-track - disrupted the afternoon session.
Once returned to the pits, Pulcini and Boccolacci's cars were found to be underweight, and their times for the afternoon session were deleted as a result.
MORNING TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arjun Maini | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m34.163s | - | 24 |
2 | Niko Kari | Arden International | 1m34.522s | 0.359s | 23 |
3 | Santino Ferrucci | DAMS | 1m34.651s | 0.488s | 16 |
4 | Nirei Fukuzumi | ART Grand Prix | 1m34.761s | 0.598s | 45 |
5 | Leonardo Pulcini | Arden International | 1m34.828s | 0.665s | 19 |
6 | Raoul Hyman | Campos Racing | 1m34.877s | 0.714s | 18 |
7 | Dorian Boccolacci | Trident | 1m34.929s | 0.766s | 12 |
8 | Giuliano Alesi | Trident | 1m35.146s | 0.983s | 13 |
9 | Alessio Lorandi | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m35.173s | 1.010s | 16 |
10 | Marcos Siebert | Campos Racing | 1m35.249s | 1.086s | 19 |
11 | Kevin Jorg | Trident | 1m35.261s | 1.098s | 14 |
12 | Steijn Schothorst | Arden International | 1m35.330s | 1.167s | 19 |
13 | Anthoine Hubert | ART Grand Prix | 1m35.379s | 1.216s | 45 |
14 | Julien Falchero | Campos Racing | 1m35.407s | 1.244s | 25 |
15 | Tatiana Calderon | DAMS | 1m35.415s | 1.252s | 17 |
16 | Bruno Baptista | DAMS | 1m35.639s | 1.476s | 17 |
17 | Jack Aitken | ART Grand Prix | 1m35.748s | 1.585s | 41 |
18 | George Russell | ART Grand Prix | 1m36.094s | 1.931s | 40 |
19 | Ryan Tveter | Trident | 1m36.545s | 2.382s | 12 |
AFTERNOON TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nirei Fukuzumi | ART Grand Prix | 1m33.685s | - | 47 |
2 | Anthoine Hubert | ART Grand Prix | 1m34.120s | 0.435s | 40 |
3 | Arjun Maini | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m34.460s | 0.775s | 44 |
4 | George Russell | ART Grand Prix | 1m34.556s | 0.871s | 37 |
5 | Alessio Lorandi | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m34.647s | 0.962s | 41 |
6 | Giuliano Alesi | Trident | 1m34.670s | 0.985s | 38 |
7 | Kevin Jorg | Trident | 1m34.791s | 1.106s | 41 |
8 | Jack Aitken | ART Grand Prix | 1m34.793s | 1.108s | 39 |
9 | Marcos Siebert | Campos Racing | 1m34.825s | 1.140s | 43 |
10 | Santino Ferrucci | DAMS | 1m35.012s | 1.327s | 43 |
11 | Bruno Baptista | DAMS | 1m35.062s | 1.377s | 43 |
12 | Tatiana Calderon | DAMS | 1m35.417s | 1.732s | 40 |
13 | Niko Kari | Arden International | 1m35.448s | 1.763s | 38 |
14 | Ryan Tveter | Trident | 1m35.475s | 1.790s | 37 |
15 | Raoul Hyman | Campos Racing | 1m35.524s | 1.839s | 44 |
16 | Steijn Schothorst | Arden International | 1m35.884s | 2.199s | 45 |
17 | Julien Falchero | Campos Racing | 1m38.167s | 4.482s | 35 |
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