Schumacher tops snow-hit final Austria test day

Schumacher set his best time of 1m22.828s in the morning, beating local driver Ferdinand Habsburg by exactly one tenth.

The Carlin driver was followed by Motopark's Sebastian Fernandez and Hitech's Enaam Ahmed as the top four featured four different teams.

The afternoon running was limited by snow and colder conditions, and thus only Habsburg and his Carlin teammate Sacha Fenestraz came close to the morning's best times.

The former beat the latter by 0.026s in the end and Fenestraz's 1m23.078s effort was good enough to put the Frenchman third overall, ahead of Fernandez and Ahmed, leaving him as the top rookie on the day.

The rest of the overall top 10 was determined by morning times, with Prema's Robert Shwartzman, Hitech's Alex Palou and another Prema driver Marcus Armstrong slotting in from sixth to eighth, all less than four tenths slower than Schumacher.

The top 10 was completed by Carlin's Jehan Daruvala and Day 1 pace-setter Dan Ticktum of Motopark.

Sophia Floersch, running in the third Van Amersfoort Racing car that is yet to be claimed for the coming season, was 22nd overall, 1.4s off the pace.

A final pre-season test at Misano will take place before the 2018 European F3 season kicks off at Pau on 12-13 May.

Day 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	Morning	Afternoon
1	Mick Schumacher	Prema	1:22.828	1:27.933
2	Ferdinand Habsburg	Carlin	1:22.928	1:23.052
3	Sacha Fenestraz	Carlin	1:23.494	1:23.078
4	Sebastian Fernandez	Motopark	1:23.120	1:23.534
5	Enaam Ahmed	Hitech	1:23.130	1:24.878
6	Robert Shwartzman	Prema	1:23.173	1:23.518
7	Alex Palou	Hitech	1:23.189	1:23.870
8	Marcus Armstrong	Prema	1:23.204	1:23.605
9	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1:23.243	1:23.306
10	Dan Ticktum	Motopark	1:23.249	1:23.536
11	Guan Yu Zhou	Prema	1:23.260	1:24.122
12	Juri Vips	Motopark	1:23.296	1:23.496
13	Jonathan Aberdein	Motopark	1:23.312	1:34.069
14	Ralf Aron	Prema	1:23.313	1:24.285
15	Marino Sato	Motopark	1:23.368	1:23.608
16	Devlin DeFrancesco	Carlin	1:23.744	1:23.706
17	Fabio Scherer	Motopark	1:23.711	1:23.948
18	Keyvan Andres Soori	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:23.790	1:24.636
19	Ameya Vaidyanathan	Carlin	1:23.811	1:24.110
20	Nikita Troitskiy	Carlin	1:23.888	1:23.938
21	Artem Petrov	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:23.913	1:23.933
22	Sophia Floersch	Van Amersfoort Racing	1:24.217	1:24.543
23	Ben Hingeley	Hitech	1:24.411	1:25.091
24	Julian Hanses	ma-con	1:25.704	1:24.715