Photo: GEPA pictures/Dutch Photo Agency/Diederik van der Laan
Carlos Sainz posted the best time in the afternoon session on day two of Formula Renault 3.5 testing at Jerez.
The Spanish Red Bull Junior set a time of 1m26.756s, putting him six tenths of a second clear of second-placed DAMS team-mate Norman Nato.
Fortec Motorsports had locked out the morning session on Tuesday and finished third and fourth in the afternoon with Sergey Sirotkin and Oliver Rowland respectively. Rowland’s morning benchmark was more than 1.3s quicker than Sainz’s afternoon time.
Series debutant Tio Ellinas took fifth in the afternoon for Tech 1, ahead of his switch to Pons for the final day of running on Wednesday.
Next were Draco driver Pietro Fantin and the Lotus pairing of Marlon Stockinger and Matthieu Vaxiviere, with Pierre Gasly (Arden) and Marco Sorensen (Lotus) completing the top ten.
Afternoon session times
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Carlos Sainz | DAMS | 1:26.756 | 29 | |
| 2 | Norman Nato | DAMS | 1:27.364 | 0.608 | 24 |
| 3 | Sergey Sirotkin | Fortec Motorsports | 1:27.508 | 0.752 | 19 |
| 4 | Oliver Rowland | Fortec Motorsports | 1:27.551 | 0.795 | 28 |
| 5 | Tio Ellinas | Tech 1 Racing | 1:27.672 | 0.916 | 28 |
| 6 | Pietro Fantin | International Draco Racing | 1:27.902 | 1.146 | 20 |
| 7 | Marlon Stockinger | Lotus | 1:27.916 | 1.160 | 48 |
| 8 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | Lotus | 1:28.111 | 1.355 | 32 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Arden Motorsport | 1:28.221 | 1.465 | 43 |
| 10 | Marco Sorensen | Tech 1 Racing | 1:28.310 | 1.554 | 24 |
| 11 | Zoel Amberg | AVF | 1:28.342 | 1.586 | 19 |
| 12 | Matias Laine | Strakka Racing | 1:28.709 | 1.953 | 38 |
| 13 | Roberto Merhi | Zeta Corse | 1:28.818 | 2.062 | 23 |
| 14 | William Buller | Arden Motorsport | 1:29.158 | 2.402 | 39 |
| 15 | Luca Ghiotto | International Draco Racing | 1:29.203 | 2.447 | 12 |
| 16 | Roman Mavlanov | Zeta Corse | 1:29.256 | 2.500 | 29 |
| 17 | Beitske Visser | AVF | 1:29.671 | 2.915 | 33 |
| 18 | Will Stevens | Strakka Racing | 1:30.133 | 3.377 | 35 |
| 19 | Nikolay Martsenko | Comtec Racing | 1:30.283 | 3.527 | 38 |
| 20 | Meindert van Buuren | Pons Racing | 1:30.763 | 4.007 | 31 |
| 21 | Jazeman Jaafar | ISR | 1:31.217 | 4.461 | 18 |