Testing report

Fukuzumi leads ART 1-2 on first day of Barcelona GP3 test

ART driver Nirei Fukuzumi set the fastest time on the first day of the second GP3 pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Fukuzumi’s best lap, a 1m33.685s, was set just under an hour into the afternoon session and put him 0.435s 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 for ART.

Italian F4 champion Marcos Siebert finished 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 ten 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.

Alex Kalinauckas / Autosport

Day 1 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:34.761	1:33.685
2	Anthoine Hubert	ART Grand Prix	1:35.379	1:34.120
3	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	1:34.163	1:34.460
4	Niko Kari	Arden International	1:34.522	1:35.448
5	George Russell	ART Grand Prix	1:36.094	1:34.556
6	Alessio Lorandi	Jenzer Motorsport	1:35.173	1:34.647
7	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1:34.651	1:35.012
8	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1:35.146	1:34.670
9	Kevin Jorg	Trident	1:35.261	1:34.791
10	Jack Aitken	ART Grand Prix	1:35.748	1:34.793
11	Marcos Siebert	Campos Racing	1:35.249	1:34.825
12	Leonardo Pulcini	Arden International	1:34.828
13	Raoul Hyman	Campos Racing	1:34.877	1:35.524
14	Dorian Boccolacci	Trident	1:34.929
15	Bruno Baptista	DAMS	1:35.639	1:35.062
16	Steijn Schothorst	Arden International	1:35.330	1:35.884
17	Julien Falchero	Campos Racing	1:35.407	1:38.167
18	Tatiana Calderon	DAMS	1:35.415	1:35.417
19	Ryan Tveter	Trident	1:36.545	1:35.475