Guerrieri leads second FR3.5 session

Ahead of tomorrow's low-aero configuration race, the Argentinean ISR racer enjoyed a three tenths of a second advantage over Daniel Ricciardo, who was running the opposite set-up for his best time.

"I was on high downforce when I did the time, and then ran a low downforce setting at the end," said 2009 British Formula 3 champion Ricciardo. "The circuit's okay, apart from the big bump at Turn 11. So I'd say things are pretty much going to plan, but Guerrieri is still hanging around so we've got to keep pushing."

Both men are out to claw back ground on points leader Mikhail Aleshin in order to maintain their championship hopes. The Russian had electrical and throttle trouble this morning, languishing in 18th place, but recovered to eighth in the afternoon.

"I had to sit out nearly the whole of the first practice," said Aleshin, "the only laps that I did were just to do checks, not pushing. For sure it won't help us, but this is a technical sport and these things happen. Hopefully, things are better now."

Fortec's Jon Lancaster also ran low downforce on his way to third fastest, edging out Brendon Hartley by 0.033s. Kiwi Hartley familiarised himself swiftly with his new P1 Motorsport team.

"It is going well," said Hartley. "There is not as big a difference between the high and low downforce as I was expecting. The high is not as quick as I thought."

Draco's Nathanael Berthon ended the afternoon fifth, ahead of Ferrari Academy member Daniel Zampieri.

Pos  Driver             Team             Time       Gap
 1.  Esteban Guerrieri  ISR              1m46.084s
 2.  Daniel Ricciardo   Tech 1           1m46.362s  + 0.278s
 3.  Jon Lancaster      Fortec           1m46.413s  + 0.329s
 4.  Brendon Hartley    P1               1m46.446s  + 0.362s
 5.  Nathanael Berthon  Draco            1m46.519s  + 0.435s
 6.  Daniel Zampieri    Pons             1m46.620s  + 0.536s
 7.  Nelson Panciatici  Junior Lotus     1m46.806s  + 0.722s
 8.  Mikhail Aleshin    Carlin           1m46.857s  + 0.773s
 9.  Sten Pentus        Fortec           1m46.860s  + 0.776s
10.  Greg Mansell       Comtec           1m46.896s  + 0.812s
11.  Jean-Eric Vergne   Tech 1           1m46.903s  + 0.819s
12.  Stefano Coletti    Comtec           1m47.081s  + 0.997s
13.  Keisuke Kunimoto   Epsilon Euskadi  1m47.167s  + 1.083s
14.  Federico Leo       Pons             1m47.339s  + 1.255s
15.  Filip Salaquarda   ISR              1m47.343s  + 1.259s
16.  Julian Leal        Draco            1m47.389s  + 1.305s
17.  Walter Grubmuller  P1               1m47.485s  + 1.401s
18.  Albert Costa       Epsilon Euskadi  1m47.565s  + 1.481s
19.  Victor Garcia      KMP              1m47.647s  + 1.563s
20.  Bruno Mendez       FHV Interwetten  1m47.995s  + 1.911s
21.  Anton Nebylitskiy  KMP              1m48.156s  + 2.072s
22.  Sergio Canamasas   FHV Interwetten  1m48.258s  + 2.174s
23.  Jake Rosenzweig    Carlin           1m48.375s  + 2.291s
24.  Daniil Move        Junior Lotus     1m48.734s  + 2.650s