Photo: Florent Gooden/DPPI
Pietro Fantin claimed top spot during the morning session on the final day of Formula Renault 3.5 pre-season testing at Jerez.
With a time of 1m25.945s, the Draco driver was the only one to go below the 1m26s mark, but was only 0.061s quicker than Fortec’s Sergey Sirotkin.
Pierre Gasly took third for Arden with Marco Sorensen fourth for Tech 1 – both drivers also getting within a tenth of Fantin.
Nikolay Martsenko was fifth for Comtec, ahead of ex-DTM racer Roberto Merhi (Zeta). Lotus F1 junior Marlon Stockinger took P7, followed closely by day two pace-setter Oliver Rowland (Fortec),?Carlos Sainz (DAMS) and Monday’s quickest man Jazeman Jaafar (ISR).
The top ten were covered by just 0.274s, with less than half a second covering the top 16 of 21 runners.
Morning session results
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Pietro Fantin | International Draco Racing | 1:25.945 | 42 | |
| 2 | Sergey Sirotkin | Fortec Motorsports | 1:26.006 | 0.061 | 43 |
| 3 | Pierre Gasly | Arden Motorsport | 1:26.017 | 0.072 | 24 |
| 4 | Marco Sorensen | Tech 1 Racing | 1:26.031 | 0.086 | 24 |
| 5 | Nikolay Martsenko | Comtec Racing | 1:26.129 | 0.184 | 28 |
| 6 | Roberto Merhi | Zeta Corse | 1:26.163 | 0.218 | 25 |
| 7 | Marlon Stockinger | Lotus | 1:26.185 | 0.240 | 39 |
| 8 | Oliver Rowland | Fortec Motorsports | 1:26.189 | 0.244 | 19 |
| 9 | Carlos Sainz | DAMS | 1:26.201 | 0.256 | 28 |
| 10 | Jazeman Jaafar | ISR | 1:26.219 | 0.274 | 25 |
| 11 | Norman Nato | DAMS | 1:26.223 | 0.278 | 19 |
| 12 | Luca Ghiotto | International Draco Racing | 1:26.272 | 0.327 | 44 |
| 13 | Matias Laine | Strakka Racing | 1:26.313 | 0.368 | 34 |
| 14 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | Lotus | 1:26.401 | 0.456 | 47 |
| 15 | Meindert van Buuren | Pons Racing | 1:26.410 | 0.465 | 20 |
| 16 | Will Stevens | Strakka Racing | 1:26.416 | 0.471 | 21 |
| 17 | Tio Ellinas | Pons Racing | 1:26.526 | 0.581 | 30 |
| 18 | William Buller | Arden Motorsport | 1:26.755 | 0.810 | 17 |
| 19 | Beitske Visser | AVF | 1:26.982 | 1.037 | 37 |
| 20 | Zoel Amberg | AVF | 1:26.545 | 1.600 | 19 |
| 21 | Roman Mavlanov | Zeta Corse | 1:26.618 | 1.673 | 26 |