Albon heads second day of Barcelona F2 test

Albon, who was a close second to ART Grand Prix teammate Nobuharu Matsushita on the opening day of testing, headed Tuesday running with a 1m28.255s lap in the morning session.

The Anglo-Thai driver took over at the top of the timesheets in the second hour of track time, following a circuit inspection red flag.

Rapax's Johnny Cecotto ran Albon close but came up 0.025s short, while Russian Time's Artem Markelov was two tenths off in third, heading Nicholas Latifi (DAMS) and early leader Norman Nato (Arden).

For much of the afternoon, laptimes were nowhere near those set in the morning session, MP Motorsport's Jordan King heading the pack with a low-1m30s effort.

Prema's Ferrari junior duo Antonio Fuoco and Charles Leclerc took over at the top in the final hour, before McLaren protege Nyck de Vries (Rapax) capped off the afternoon session with a 1m29.233s effort – but Albon's best time of the day remained untroubled.

Overall, 12 drivers surpassed Matsushita's Monday benchmark, the Japanese McLaren F1 protege himself last among them.

Ex-F1 driver Roberto Merhi, testing with Campos, found 1.4s compared to his opening day, but was only 18th overall, ahead of Nabil Jeffri and Gustav Malja, who had his morning session times wiped when his car was found to be underweight.

Day 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:28.225	1:33.991
2	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Rapax	1:28.250	1:29.847
3	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:28.410	1:33.867
4	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:28.429	1:33.813
5	Norman Nato	Pertamina Arden	1:28.445	1:34.466
6	Luca Ghiotto	Russian Time	1:28.541	1:33.557
7	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	1:28.642	1:33.723
8	Antonio Fuoco	Prema Racing	1:28.655	1:29.601
9	Jordan King	MP Motorsport	1:28.722	1:30.127
10	Charles Leclerc	Prema Racing	1:28.805	1:29.602
11	Louis Deletraz	Racing Engineering	1:28.887	1:33.864
12	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1:29.040	1:34.073
13	Sergio Sette Camara	MP Motorsport	1:29.184	1:34.887
14	Nyck de Vries	Rapax	1:29.429	1:29.223
15	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	1:29.248	1:30.885
16	Sergio Canamasas	Trident	1:29.337	1:30.404
17	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Arden	1:29.906	1:30.680
18	Roberto Merhi	Campos Racing	1:30.085	1:30.052
19	Nabil Jeffri	Trident	1:30.588	1:30.518
20	Gustav Malja	Racing Engineering		1:32.932