Ricciardo ends Barcelona test on top
Daniel Ricciardo celebrated signing for Tech 1 late last week by topping the final day of Formula Renault 3.5 testing at Barcelona
The 20-year-old Australian recorded the best time of the two days in 1m33.574s during the morning session at the Spanish circuit - fresh tyres helping him to improve his time by half a second on what he had managed on worn rubber.
He was on a flyer late in the afternoon session as well, but spins for Carlin's Sergey Afanasiev and Prema's Sten Pentus brought out the red flags and forced an early end to the day's proceedings.
"I think we could have improved at the end of the session, but the red flag caught us all out," said the reigning British Formula 3 champion.
Formula Renault Eurocup champion Albert Costa was second quickest for Epsilon Euskadi, albeit six tenths of a second adrift of Ricciardo, while afternoon pace-setter Daniel Zampieri was third for Comtec.
The impressive Nathanael Berthon and Britain's James Walker were next up for SG and P1.
Day one pace-setter Jean-Eric Vergne was a comfortable sixth in the second SG car while Formula Master graduate Alessandro Kouzkin put an Interwetten car higher than it has been in any of the post-season tests in seventh.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Daniel Ricciardo Tech 1 1m33.574s 74 2. Albert Costa Epsilon Euskadi 1m34.157s 61 3. Daniel Zampieri Comtec 1m34.340s 45 4. Nathanael Berthon SG 1m34.355s 56 5. James Walker P1 1m34.690s 72 6. Jean-Eric Vergne SG 1m34.727s 53 7. Greg Mansell Mofaz 1m34.846s 92 8. Alessandro Kouzkin Interwetten 1m34.886s 80 9. Nelson Panciatici Pons 1m34.906s 67 10. Walter Grubmuller P1 1m34.965s 56 11. Filip Salaquarda RC 1m35.019s 59 12. Keisuke Kunimoto Epsilon Euskadi 1m35.026s 79 13. Brendon Hartley Tech 1 1m35.031s 56 14. Anton Nebilitskiy RC 1m35.520s 80 15. Julian Leal Prema 1m35.579s 63 16. Victor Garcia Draco 1m35.631s 73 17. Federico Leo Mofaz 1m35.728s 91 18. Pierre Combot Comtec 1m35.867s 76 19. Sergey Afanasiev Carlin 1m35.910s 33 20. Francesco Castellacci Draco 1m35.924s 78 21. Michele Faccin Pons 1m35.949s 73 22. Sten Pentus Prema 1m36.810s 62 23. Marguerite Laffite Interwetten 1m42.063s 65 24. Jake Rosenzweig Carlin No time
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