Da Costa quickest in GP3 practice at Silverstone

The Portuguese Carlin driver waited until the very last minute to post his 2m11.463s lap in atrocious conditions that remained in place throughout the 45 minutes of running.

Countless spins and offs, including one for da Costa, peppered the session and the yellow flags seemed to be constantly waving.

Tamas Pal Kiss was caught out by one such yellow, having initially set his best time to head the field while one was waving. That time of 2m12.552s was disallowed but, no matter, for the Hungarian improved on that time anyway to end the morning second fastest, 0.37s behind da Costa.

Mitch Evans' last lap was good enough to ensure he went ahead of Patric Niederhauser, while Aaro Vainio was fifth.

Connor Daly was sixth quickest ahead of a raft of late-lap time posters including Marlon Stockinger and Tio Ellinas, who bumped Alex Brundle down from a respectable seventh to tenth in the final moments of the session on his home track.

Among the spinners were Fabio Gamberini, Facu Regalia, Kotaro Sakurai, Will Buller - who continued to end the morning 12th fastest - Alice Powell, Fabiano Machado (who caused the last yellow) and David Fumanelli.

Pos Driver                  Team       Time       Gap
 1. Antonio Felix da Costa  Carlin     2m11.463s
 2. Tamas Pal Kiss          Atech CRS  2m11.836s  + 0.373s
 3. Mitch Evans             MW Arden   2m12.308s  + 0.845s
 4. Patric Niederhauser     Jenzer     2m12.984s  + 1.521s
 5. Aaro Vainio             Lotus      2m13.433s  + 1.970s
 6. Conor Daly              Lotus      2m13.468s  + 2.005s
 7. Kevin Ceccon            Ocean      2m13.667s  + 2.204s
 8. Marlon Stockinger       Status     2m13.969s  + 2.506s
 9. Tio Ellinas             Manor      2m14.583s  + 3.120s
10. Alex Brundle            Carlin     2m14.595s  + 3.132s
11. Matias Laine            MW Arden   2m15.418s  + 3.955s
12. William Buller          Carlin     2m15.550s  + 4.087s
13. Daniel Abt              Lotus      2m15.601s  + 4.138s
14. Giovanni Venturini      Trident    2m16.229s  + 4.766s
15. David Fumanelli         MW Arden   2m16.285s  + 4.822s
16. Antonio Spavone         Trident    2m17.078s  + 5.615s
17. Facu Regalia            Jenzer     2m17.848s  + 6.385s
18. Vicky Piria             Trident    2m18.177s  + 6.714s
19. Kotaro Sakurai          Status     2m18.369s  + 6.906s
20. Dmitry Suranovich       Manor      2m18.822s  + 7.359s
21. Fabio Gamberini         Atech CRS  2m19.651s  + 8.188s
22. Ethan Ringel            Atech CRS  2m21.265s  + 9.802s
23. Robert Visoiu           Jenzer     2m21.415s  + 9.952s
24. Alice Powell            Status     2m21.834s  + 10.371s
25. Fabiano Machado         Manor      2m22.854s  + 11.391s
26. Carmen Jorda            Ocean      2m26.610s  + 15.147s
27. Robert Cregan           Ocean