Photo: Sam Bloxham/GP3 Series Media Service.
Alex Palou led the way in the morning session on the second day of the Valencia GP3 test.
Increasingly warm conditions during the session caused the best times to be run in the first hour of the session. Palou was the early pacesetter, dipping into the 1m21s barrier for the first time this weekend.
ART duo Marvin Kirchhofer and Esteban Ocon did the same shortly afterwards, slotting in behind the? Spaniard by only a hundredth and a tenth of a second shy respectively.
Kevin Korjus, who is replacing Adderly Fong this week as the Lotus development driver is at the Chinese Grand Prix, ended up in fifth, narrowly edging out Jenzer’s Matheo Tuscher and Koiranen’s Jimmy Eriksson.
The rest of the top ten consisted of Alfonso Celis, Ralph Boschung, Matt Parry and Pal Varhaug with all of them finishing within the same tenth.
Morning session results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Alex Palou | Campos Racing | 1:20.880 | 35 | |
| 2 | Marvin Kirchhofer | ART Grand Prix | 1:20.892 | 0.012 | 26 |
| 3 | Esteban Ocon | ART Grand Prix | 1:20.980 | 0.100 | 31 |
| 4 | Kevin Korjus | Koiranen GP | 1:21.144 | 0.264 | 38 |
| 5 | Matheo Tuscher | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:21.165 | 0.285 | 42 |
| 6 | Jimmy Eriksson | Koiranen GP | 1:21.215 | 0.335 | 33 |
| 7 | Alfonso Celis | ART Grand Prix | 1:21.324 | 0.444 | 24 |
| 8 | Ralph Boschung | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:21.343 | 0.463 | 31 |
| 9 | Matthew Parry | Koiranen GP | 1:21.382 | 0.502 | 33 |
| 10 | Pal Varhaug | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:21.384 | 0.504 | 40 |
| 11 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1:21.424 | 0.544 | 50 |
| 12 | Oscar Tunjo | Trident | 1:21.425 | 0.545 | 34 |
| 13 | Antonio Fuoco | Carlin | 1:21.443 | 0.563 | 39 |
| 14 | Jann Mardenborough | Carlin | 1:21.588 | 0.708 | 34 |
| 15 | Emil Bernstorff | Arden International | 1:21.591 | 0.711 | 48 |
| 16 | Sandy Stuvik | Status Grand Prix | 1:21.598 | 0.718 | 55 |
| 17 | Alex Fontana | Status Grand Prix | 1:21.618 | 0.738 | 43 |
| 18 | Zaid Ashkanani | Campos Racing | 1:21.727 | 0.847 | 43 |
| 19 | Mitchell Gilbert | Carlin | 1:21.810 | 0.930 | 43 |
| 20 | Seb Morris | Status Grand Prix | 1:21.874 | 0.994 | 30 |
| 21 | Kevin Ceccon | Arden International | 1:22.118 | 1.238 | 43 |
| 22 | Artur Janosz | Trident | 1:22.671 | 1.791 | 40 |
| 23 | Aleksander Bosak | Arden International | 1:22.770 | 1.890 | 37 |
| 24 | Samin Gomez | Campos Racing | 1:23.414 | 2.534 | 35 |