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Marco Sorensen tops final day of Barcelona FR3.5 test for Lotus

Marco Sorensen topped the second day of Formula Renault 3.5 testing at Barcelona on Wednesday

The Dane, who finished sixth in the series for Lotus this season, stayed with the team for the two-day test.

His best time of the day came in the morning session, when track conditions were better and all but one of the 25 runners set their fastest times.

"I ended the season with a retirement so it's been a real boost for me to have two days of testing straightaway," said Sorensen.

"In my head I'm already in 2013, and the aim is to compete in Formula Renault 3.5 again. Over these two days we've been able to identify what had been bothering us in the last few races."

GP2 race winner Marcus Ericsson was just 0.010s adrift of Sorensen's best in second place, while Arthur Pic completed a promising first test for new team AV Formula by going third quickest overall, and leading the way in the slower afternoon session.

British F3 racers Carlos Sainz Jr and Jazeman Jaafar were fourth and sixth for Carlin, either side of the team's 2012 FR3.5 driver Will Stevens, who was out with DAMS.

Notable drivers getting their first taste of FR3.5 machinery on day two included new Formula Renault Eurocup champion Stoffel Vandoorne (18th with Arden Caterham), and Formula 2 frontrunner Matheo Tuscher (21st with Pons).

The latter - aged just 15 - is the youngest driver to ever get behind the wheel of one of the Renault machines.

Pos  Driver               Team            Time       Gap
 1.  Marco Sorensen       Lotus           1m28.971s
 2.  Marcus Ericsson      P1              1m28.981s  + 0.010s
 3.  Arthur Pic           AV              1m29.009s  + 0.038s
 4.  Carlos Sainz Jr      Carlin          1m29.185s  + 0.214s
 5.  Will Stevens         DAMS            1m29.263s  + 0.292s
 6.  Jazeman Jaafar       Carlin          1m29.283s  + 0.312s
 7.  Pietro Fantin        Lotus           1m29.376s  + 0.405s
 8.  Andre Negrao         Draco           1m29.488s  + 0.517s
 9.  Sergey Sirotkin      ISR             1m29.493s  + 0.522s
10.  Norman Nato          Arden Caterham  1m29.569s  + 0.598s
11.  Tamas Pal Kiss       BVM Target      1m29.727s  + 0.756s
12.  Kevin Magnussen      Fortec          1m29.733s  + 0.762s
13.  Will Buller          Comtec          1m29.845s  + 0.874s
14.  Nikolay Martsenko    Tech 1          1m29.872s  + 0.901s
15.  Conor Daly           Tech 1          1m30.007s  + 1.036s
16.  Christopher Zanella  Comtec          1m30.038s  + 1.067s
17.  Vittorio Ghirelli    Draco           1m30.125s  + 1.154s
18.  Stoffel Vandoorne    Arden Caterham  1m30.156s  + 1.185s
19.  Zoel Amberg          Pons            1m30.169s  + 1.198s
20.  Yann Cunha           AV              1m30.473s  + 1.502s
21.  Matheo Tuscher       Pons            1m30.712s  + 1.741s
22.  Lucas Foresti        Fortec          1m30.725s  + 1.754s
23.  Matias Laine         DAMS            1m31.279s  + 2.326s
24.  Filip Salaquarda     ISR             1m31.368s  + 2.397s
25.  Ignazio d'Agosto     BVM Target      1m31.997s  + 3.026s

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