Asmer heads Friday Macau practice

The Hitech Racing driver spent the session evaluating a new set up direction to boost straight-line speed and was happy with the improvements, after moving to the top of the timesheets with just one minute of practice remaining.

"Yeah, that was okay," said Asmer. "We changed something from yesterday and it looked like it worked. So things were not too bad, and we will just have to see how much the track will improve this afternoon for qualifying. I think the times are going to be very fast."

Japan's Kodai Tsukakoshi was second fastest, while TOM'S driver Oliver Jarvis showed improved form to set the third best time - having been consistently near the top of the times for much of the session.

Although there were no red flags during the session, there were a number of incidents as several drivers hit trouble.

Frank Mailleux broke his rear wing after spinning backwards into the barriers at Lisboa, while Atte Mustonen recovered from a spin at R-Bend only to crash out later in the session at Lisboa after contact with another car.

James Jakes also ended his session in the wall. He had sat out much of the early part of practice thanks to a mechanical problem, but after heading out with 11 minutes remaining he nosed into the barriers at Moorish Hill right at the end.

Pos  Driver                 Team                       Time
 1.  Marko Asmer            Hitech Racing              2:12.894
 2.  Kodai Tsukakoshi       Manor Motorsport             +0.038
 3.  Oliver Jarvis          Team Reckless Tom's          +0.109
 4.  Edoardo Mortara        Signature Plus               +0.381
 5.  Kazuya Oshima          Team Reckless Tom's          +0.491
 6.  Romain Grosjean        ASM F3                       +0.651
 7.  Sebastien Buemi        Raikkonen Robertson Racing   +0.705
 8.  Robert Streit          Prema Powerteam              +0.766
 9.  Stephen Jelley         Raikkonen Robertson Racing   +1.270
10.  Carlo van dam          HBR Motorsport               +1.322
11.  Yelmer Buurman         Manor Motorsport             +1.437
12.  Kamui Kobayashi        ASM F3                       +1.445
13.  Nico Hulkenberg        ASM F3                       +1.518
14.  Bruno Senna            Raikkonen Robertson Racing   +1.557
15.  Niall Breen            Carlin Motorsport            +1.666
16.  James Jakes            Manor Motorsport             +1.781
17.  Jonathan Kennard       Raikkonen Robertson Racing   +1.940
18.  Renger van der Zande   Prema Powerteam              +2.059
19.  Brendon Hartley        Carlin Motorsport            +2.192
20.  Atte Mustonen          Signature Plus               +2.314
21.  Sam Bird               Carlin Motorsport            +2.384
22.  Esteban Guerrieri      Signature Plus               +2.548
23.  Walter Grubmuller      Hitech Racing                +3.202
24.  Frank Mailleux         Manor Motorsport             +4.008
25.  Rodolfo Avila          HBR Motorsport               +5.191
26.  Michael Ho             Hitech Racing               +10.648
27.  Takuya Izawa           Fortec Motorsport           +11.105
28.  Lei Kit Meng           Carlin Motorsport           +13.217
29.  Jo Merszei             Swiss Racing Team           +16.335