
Photo: RPM Racing
New team Teo Martin Motorsport topped both sessions on the second and final day of the opening Formula V8 3.5 pre-season test at Barcelona.
Japanese driver?Yu Kanamaru set the best time of the test in the morning session with a 1m29.571s.
Tuesday pacesetter?Aurelien Panis was strong again in second for Arden ahead of AVF’s?Tom Dillmann?and Strakka tester?Emil Bernstorff.
Fortec’s Louis Deletraz was fifth in front of Lotus pairing?Roy Nissany and?Rene Binder, with?Beitske Visser?eighth in the second Strakka car.?Matthieu Vaxiviere and Pietro Fittipaldi completed the top 10 for SMP and Fortec respectively.
Matevos Isaakyan – whose confirmed race programme this year is in GP3 – led the afternoon in the second Teo Martin-run car. Both he and Kanamaru topped test days with Pons at the end of last year, before team manager Emilio de Villota switched sides to Teo Martin.
GP2 veteran Johnny Cecotto took second for RP Motorsport ahead of Vaxiviere,?Alfonso Celis and Binder.
Combined day two times
Pos | Driver | Team | Session 1 | Session 2 |
1 | Yu Kanamaru | Teo Martin Motorsport | 1:29.571 | 1:31.404 |
2 | Aurelien Panis | Arden Motorsport | 1:29.762 | 1:33.265 |
3 | Tom Dillmann | AVF | 1:29.994 | 1:31.727 |
4 | Emil Bernstorff | Strakka Racing | 1:30.004 | 1:32.168 |
5 | Louis Deletraz | Fortec Motorsports | 1:30.090 | 1:31.790 |
6 | Roy Nissany | Lotus | 1:30.148 | 1:32.050 |
7 | Rene Binder | Lotus | 1:30.277 | 1:31.389 |
8 | Beitske Visser | Strakka Racing | 1:30.369 | 1:32.421 |
9 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | SMP Racing | 1:30.380 | 1:30.838 |
10 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Fortec Motorsports | 1:30.381 | 1:33.438 |
11 | Matevos Isaakyan | Teo Martin Motorsport | 1:30.425 | 1:30.596 |
12 | Egor Orudzhev | Arden Motorsport | 1:30.571 | 1:31.399 |
13 | Johnny Cecotto | RP Motorsport | 1:31.113 | 1:30.633 |
14 | Alfonso Celis | AVF | 1:30.779 | 1:31.059 |
15 | Vitor Baptista | RP Motorsport | 1:30.872 | 1:31.621 |
16 | Vladimir Atoev | SMP Racing | 1:31.788 | 1:32.598 |
17 | Giuseppe Cipriani | Durango Racing Team | 1:36.994 | 1:37.450 |