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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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