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EmiliodeVillota Motorsport’s Yu Kanamaru produced an ominous performance ahead of the Euroformula Open Jerez season opener, topping all three Friday practice sessions.
The Japanese racer set the best time of the day in the first session and led the two other runs.
In the morning, Campos Racing’s Konstantin Tereshchenko was Kanamaru’s closest rival, two tenths off the leader. Vitor Baptista led team champions RP’s efforts in third, with Yarin Stern and Igor Walilko making up the rest of the top five.
Walilko then almost denied Kanamaru a clean sweep, but came up 0.009s short. Diego Menchaca, having sat out the first session, was third, ahead of West-Tec drivers Stern and Tanart Sathienthirakul.
Rounding out the day on top, Kanamaru was followed by RP trio of Baptista, Walilko and Andres Saravia, while William Barbosa completed the top five.
Combined session results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | S1 | S2 | S3 |
| 1 | Yu Kanamaru | EmiliodeVillota Motorsport | 1:37.236 | 1:38.865 | 1:39.841 |
| 2 | Konstantin Tereshchenko | Campos Racing | 1:37.426 | 1:39.594 | 1:40.294 |
| 3 | Vitor Baptista | RP Motorsport | 1:37.481 | 1:40.395 | 1:39.984 |
| 4 | Yarin Stern | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:37.501 | 1:39.162 | 1:40.222 |
| 5 | Igor Walilko | RP Motorsport | 1:37.763 | 1:38.874 | 1:40.042 |
| 6 | Dzhon Simonyan | RP Motorsport | 1:37.845 | 1:39.459 | 1:40.366 |
| 7 | Alessio Rovera | DAV Racing | 1:37.900 | 1:40.044 | 1:40.150 |
| 8 | Tanart Sathienthirakul | Team West-Tec F3 | 1:37.940 | 1:39.367 | 1:40.403 |
| 9 | Damiano Fioravanti | RP Motorsport | 1:38.022 | 1:40.926 | 1:40.507 |
| 10 | Andres Saravia | RP Motorsport | 1:38.166 | 1:40.828 | 1:40.066 |
| 11 | Diego Menchaca | Campos Racing | No Time | 1:38.911 | 1:40.334 |
| 12 | William Barbosa | BVM Racing | 1:39.142 | 1:40.028 | 1:40.142 |
| 13 | Henrique Baptista | Campos Racing | 1:39.182 | 1:40.064 | 1:40.626 |
| 14 | Luis Michael Dorrbecker | EmiliodeVillota Motorsport | 1:43.511 | 1:39.758 | 1:40.920 |
| 15 | Antoni Ptak | RP Motorsport | 1:40.788 | 1:41.004 | 1:40.235 |
| 16 | Otto Sanchez | EmiliodeVillota Motorsport | 1:41.478 | 1:43.469 | 1:40.507 |
| 17 | Leonardo Pulcini | DAV Racing | 1:43.663 | No Time | 1:40.573 |
| 18 | Ahmed Al Ghanem | Campos Racing | 2:18.858 | 1:41.223 | 1:41.067 |
| 19 | Javier Cobian | BVM Racing | 1:41.448 | 1:44.449 | 1:43.116 |
| 20 | Juan Manuel Vilalta | EmiliodeVillota Motorsport | 1:41.501 | 1:42.036 | 1:43.030 |
Personal best time in bold
Best time of session in italics