Photo: GEPA pictures/Dutch Photo Agency/Sebastiaan Rozendaal
Carlos Sainz bettered his own benchmark to remain on top of the timesheets in the second Friday session ahead of the Formula Renault 3.5 season opener at Monza.
A flurry of quick laps at the end of the session saw the Spaniard return to P1, knocking nearly half a second off his time from the morning.
Formula Renault 2.0 graduate Luca Ghiotto claimed second ahead of his series debut on home soil while Jazeman Jaafar took third.
Ghiotto’s team-mate Pietro Fantin was fourth in a good showing for the Draco squad, while sole Comtec entry Nikolay Martsenko was relegated from first to fifth in the closing stages.
Pierre Gasly?managed sixth ahead of?Marco Sorensen, Will Buller, Norman Nato and Sergey Sirotkin.
Session results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Carlos Sainz | DAMS | 1:33.731 | 17 | |
| 2 | Luca Ghiotto | International Draco Racing | 1:33.899 | 0.168 | 17 |
| 3 | Jazeman Jaafar | ISR | 1:33.986 | 0.255 | 20 |
| 4 | Pietro Fantin | International Draco Racing | 1:34.041 | 0.310 | 21 |
| 5 | Nikolay Martsenko | Comtec Racing | 1:34.051 | 0.320 | 21 |
| 6 | Pierre Gasly | Arden Motorsport | 1:34.082 | 0.351 | 19 |
| 7 | Marco Sorensen | Tech 1 Racing | 1:34.143 | 0.412 | 18 |
| 8 | William Buller | Arden Motorsport | 1:34.200 | 0.469 | 18 |
| 9 | Norman Nato | DAMS | 1:34.374 | 0.643 | 21 |
| 10 | Sergey Sirotkin | Fortec Motorsports | 1:34.375 | 0.644 | 21 |
| 11 | Will Stevens | Strakka Racing | 1:34.383 | 0.652 | 20 |
| 12 | Oliver Webb | Pons Racing | 1:34.422 | 0.691 | 18 |
| 13 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | Lotus | 1:34.567 | 0.836 | 18 |
| 14 | Marlon Stockinger | Lotus | 1:34.650 | 0.919 | 19 |
| 15 | Roberto Merhi | Zeta Corse | 1:34.685 | 0.954 | 20 |
| 16 | Matias Laine | Strakka Racing | 1:34.765 | 1.034 | 14 |
| 17 | Oliver Rowland | Fortec Motorsports | 1:34.792 | 1.061 | 20 |
| 18 | Meindert van Buuren | Pons Racing | 1:34.898 | 1.167 | 20 |
| 19 | Zoel Amberg | AVF | 1:35.419 | 1.688 | 20 |
| 20 | Roman Mavlanov | Zeta Corse | 1:35.461 | 1.730 | 19 |
| 21 | Beitske Visser | AVF | 1:35.475 | 1.744 | 20 |
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