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KTR’s Alex Albon was fastest in the penultimate Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 pre-season test session at Jerez.
The 18-year-old driver set the pace at the beginning of the hectic session, which has been red-flagged on four occasions, and kept the lead till the checkered flag.
Albon was more than 0.4s faster than his 2013 teammate Ignazio D’Agosto , who also wound up bringing out a red flag in the latter stages of the session.
The top three was completed by Manor MP’s Steijn Schothorst, who,?similarly to Albon and D’Agosto, is set to spend his third season in the championship.
Caterham-backed Matt Parry finished fourth, followed by Andrea Pizzitola and Egor Orudzhev, all of them being more than a second down on Albon’s benchmark.
Karting graduates George Russell and Max Verstappen ended up setting indentical times times in seventh and eighth, while Josef Kaufmann’s Gustav Malja and Formula Renault 2.0 Alps driver Charles Leclerc rounded out the top ten.
Testing results
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Alex Albon | KTR | 1:53.306 | 16 | |
| 2 | Ignazio D’Agosto | Koiranen GP | 1:53.765 | 0.459 | 26 |
| 3 | Steijn Schothorst | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:54.159 | 0.853 | 22 |
| 4 | Matt Parry | Fortec Motorsports | 1:54.332 | 1.026 | 27 |
| 5 | Andrea Pizzitola | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:54.421 | 1.115 | 23 |
| 6 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | 1:54.509 | 1.203 | 28 |
| 7 | George Russell | Koiranen GP | 1:54.591 | 1.285 | 44 |
| 8 | Max Verstappen | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:54.591 | 1.285 | 22 |
| 9 | Gustav Malja | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:54.770 | 1.464 | 28 |
| 10 | Charles Leclerc | Fortec Motorsports | 1:54.865 | 1.559 | 27 |
| 11 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 1:55.038 | 1.732 | 39 |
| 12 | Callan O’Keeffe | ART Junior Team | 1:55.219 | 1.913 | 38 |
| 13 | Aurelien Panis | ART Junior Team | 1:55.258 | 1.952 | 34 |
| 14 | Simon Gachet | ARTA Racing Engineering | 1:55.501 | 2.195 | 30 |
| 15 | Kevin Jorg | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:55.638 | 2.332 | 24 |
| 16 | Darius Oskoui | ARTA Racing Engineering | 1:55.642 | 2.336 | 24 |
| 17 | Matheo Tuscher | China BRT by JCS | 1:55.655 | 2.349 | 30 |
| 18 | Jack Aitken | Fortec Motorsports | 1:55.671 | 2.365 | 29 |
| 19 | Andrew Tang | Prema Powerteam | 1:55.719 | 2.413 | 23 |
| 20 | Dennis Olsen | Prema Powerteam | 1:55.789 | 2.483 | 34 |
| 21 | Hans Villemi | Prema Powerteam | 1:55.863 | 2.557 | 16 |
| 22 | Gregor Ramsay | KTR | 1:55.940 | 2.634 | 36 |
| 23 | Jules Gounon | KTR | 1:56.059 | 2.753 | 40 |
| 24 | Anthoine Hubert | Tech 1 Racing | 1:56.065 | 2.759 | 27 |
| 25 | Martin Rump | Fortec Motorsports | 1:56.289 | 2.983 | 32 |
| 26 | Matevos Isaakyan | JD Motorsport | 1:56.499 | 3.193 | 29 |
| 27 | Alex Bosak | Prema Powerteam | 1:56.914 | 3.608 | 25 |
| 28 | Ryan Tveter | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:57.005 | 3.699 | 25 |
| 29 | Denis Korneev | JD Motorsport | 1:57.302 | 3.996 | 30 |
| 30 | Nick Cassidy | China BRT by JCS | 1:57.344 | 4.038 | 10 |
| 31 | Jordan Perroy | RC Formula | 1:57.413 | 4.107 | 38 |
| 32 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 Racing | 1:57.436 | 4.130 | 32 |
| 33 | James Allen | ARTA Racing Engineering | 1:57.631 | 4.325 | 26 |
| 34 | Nicholas Surguladze | Koiranen GP | 1:58.473 | 5.167 | 27 |