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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.

Nirei Fukuzumi, ART Grand Prix

Nirei Fukuzumi, ART Grand Prix

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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

 

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