Norman Nato?returned to the head of the field on the final day?of the Jerez GP2 pre-season test to complete a clean sweep for the local Racing Engineering team.
The Frenchman, who also topped Tuesday’s running?before team-mate?Jordan King led Wednesday, set the day’s pace early in the morning with a?1m24.518s.
Arthur Pic was second quickest in the morning and topped the afternoon session, but a second down on his earlier pace.
ART, Prema and DAMS filled out the next six places in order, with Nobuharu Matsushita?ahead of?Pierre Gasly?and?Alex Lynn, and?Sergey Sirotkin leading?Antonio Giovinazzi and?Nicholas Latifi.
King and?Luca Ghiotto rounded out the top 10 in front of?Gustav Malja, who was second to his Rapax team-mate Pic in the afternoon.
Behind the Rapax duo were the two Russian Time cars of?Artem?Markelov?and?Raffaele Marciello?and then the Arden pair of Jimmy?Eriksson?and?Nabil?Jeffri.
Marciello caused two red flags having been dogged by gearbox problems all week. Matsushita and?Oliver Rowland?also stopped on track, while Jeffri and?Philo Paz Armand caused halts with spins.
Combined day three times
Pos | Driver | Team | Session 1 | Session 2 |
1 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1:24.518 | 1:30.716 |
2 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1:24.592 | 1:25.583 |
3 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1:24.617 | 1:30.580 |
4 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1:24.652 | 1:30.570 |
5 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1:24.677 | 1:30.840 |
6 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1:24.682 | 1:30.227 |
7 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1:24.688 | 1:30.626 |
8 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1:24.689 | 1:30.115 |
9 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1:24.747 | 1:31.096 |
10 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1:24.937 | 1:30.854 |
11 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1:24.948 | 1:25.820 |
12 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1:25.072 | 1:27.410 |
13 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1:25.120 | 1:28.761 |
14 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1:25.134 | 1:28.857 |
15 | Raffaele Marciello | Russian Time | 1:25.318 | 1:26.435 |
16 | Artem Markelov | Russian Time | 1:25.339 | 1:26.140 |
17 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1:25.404 | 1:28.620 |
18 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1:25.698 | 1:30.459 |
19 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1:25.819 | 1:26.629 |
20 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1:26.053 | 1:29.988 |
21 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1:26.074 | 1:27.235 |