ART Junior Team’s Aurelien Panis topped the afternoon session on day two of Eurocup Formula Renault pre-season test at Circuit de Catalunya.
The 19-year-old Frenchman managed a last-minute flying lap to top the three-hour-and-a-half practice.
Prema Powerteam’s Bruno Bonifacio led the standings after the first hour of running, while AVF’s day one chart-topper Beitske Visser took over at the top in the latter half of the session.
The Dutch racer stayed in the lead until the final ten minutes, which a surge of track activity as drivers went out on newer tires. Matt Parry briefly emerged? in first with five minutes to go, before Panis posted the final benchmark of the test.
Charles Leclerc picked up second ahead of teammate Parry, while Visser and Louis Deletraz rounded out the top five.
Bonifacio settled for sixth, with Marin Rump making it three Fortec cars in the top ten in seventh.
Kevin Jorg and the Koiranen duo of Vitaly Larionov and Hong Li Ye made up the rest of the top ten.
Session results
Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
1 | Aurelien Panis | ART Junior Team | 1:43.384 | 34 | |
2 | Charles Leclerc | Fortec Motorsports | 1:43.501 | 0.117 | 36 |
3 | Matt Parry | Fortec Motorsports | 1:43.527 | 0.143 | 29 |
4 | Beitske Visser | AVF | 1:43.578 | 0.194 | 39 |
5 | Louis Deletraz | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:43.717 | 0.333 | 19 |
6 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 1:43.754 | 0.370 | 20 |
7 | Martin Rump | Fortec Motorsports | 1:43.763 | 0.379 | 36 |
8 | Kevin Jorg | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:43.930 | 0.546 | 25 |
9 | Vitaly Larionov | Koiranen GP | 1:43.977 | 0.593 | 28 |
10 | Hong Li Ye | Koiranen GP | 1:44.040 | 0.656 | 18 |
11 | Jeroen Slaghekke | ART Junior Team | 1:44.068 | 0.684 | 34 |
12 | Matthew Graham | AVF | 1:44.081 | 0.697 | 29 |
13 | Dennis Olsen | Prema Powerteam | 1:44.117 | 0.733 | 20 |
14 | Nicholas Surguladze | Koiranen GP | 1:44.278 | 0.894 | 29 |
15 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 Racing | 1:44.562 | 1.178 | 40 |
16 | Andrea Pizzitola | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:44.653 | 1.269 | 9 |
17 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | 1:44.681 | 1.297 | 24 |
18 | Hans Villemi | Prema Powerteam | 1:44.705 | 1.321 | 19 |
19 | Julio Moreno | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:44.822 | 1.438 | 31 |
20 | Sun Zheng | China BRT by JCS | 1:45.209 | 1.825 | 32 |
21 | Mikhail Tarasov | Koiranen GP | 1:47.925 | 4.541 | 19 |
Anthoine Hubert | Tech 1 Racing | No Time | |||
Ignazio D’Agosto | Koiranen GP | No Time | |||
Alexander Albon | KTR | No Time | |||
Gregor Ramsay | KTR | No Time | |||
Jules Gounon | KTR | No Time |