Fuoco and Aitken lead on Day 2 of Abu Dhabi test

Fuoco's benchmark of 1m55.135s, set in the morning, ended up as the best time of the day's running - as afternoon pacesetter Aitken, testing with Arden, came up just 0.03s short.

In the first session, Ferrari junior Fuoco, spending his second day with Trident, overhauled Arden duo Jake Dennis and Charles Leclerc - and while both improved late on, they came up short.

Formula Renault 2.0 graduates Matevos Isaakyan, Aitken and Jake Hughes all ended the morning well within a tenth of third-placed Leclerc.

While Fuoco then went on to lead much of the afternoon, he was passed by Dennis entering the final half-hour - and both were then demoted by Aitken.

Further improvements looked on the cards, but the session was over early when Will Palmer found the barriers.

Kevin Jorg ended the run fourth behind Trident teammate Fuoco, just ahead of Hughes and Leclerc, the latter once more making it three Arden cars in the top six.

ART's high-profile newcomers Nyck de Vries and Alex Albon were only 15th and 16th in the first session, but moved up in the afternoon - de Vries taking 12th and Albon seventh.

GP3 timesheets (Day 2):

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1:55.135	1:55.500
2	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1:55.445	1:55.164
3	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1:55.193	1:55.351
4	Charles Leclerc	Arden International	1:55.423	1:55.674
5	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1:55.429	1:57.765
6	Jake Hughes	Status Grand Prix	1:55.475	1:55.649
7	Kevin Jorg	Trident	1:55.664	1:55.636
8	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1:55.685	1:56.005
9	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:55.861	1:57.979
10	Alex Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:56.874	1:55.989
11	Tatiana Calderon	Status Grand Prix	1:56.436	1:56.077
12	Leonardo Pulcini	Jenzer Motorsport	1:57.043	1:56.084
13	Steijn Schothorst	Trident	1:56.196	1:56.383
14	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	1:56.288	1:56.231
15	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1:56.846	1:56.274
16	Nabil Jeffri	Koiranen GP	1:56.783	1:56.690
17	Will Palmer	Status Grand Prix	1:56.757	1:57.145
18	Giuliano Alesi	Jenzer Motorsport	1:57.153	1:57.301
19	Mahaveer Raghunathan	Campos Racing	1:57.701	1:57.347
20	Antoni Ptak	Jenzer Motorsport	1:57.644	1:57.771
21	Rahul Raj Mayer	Campos Racing	1:59.433	1:58.539