Tio Ellinas quickest on first day of GP3 testing at Jerez for Manor

The Cypriot, a front-runner in Formula Renault UK this year, topped the morning session in 1m34.748, a time set just an hour into the session.

Despite a number of rivals improving their pace as the morning wore on, his time was still good enough to be 0.050s clear of MW Arden driver David Fumanelli.

Fumanelli turned the tide in the afternoon, lapping nearly 0.5s up on Ellinas, but with the times in the later session significantly slower, the latter was still the quickest overall on the opening day.

Matias Laine confirmed that his Barcelona test pace last week was no fluke with third fastest for Manor, while Maxim Zimin and Alex Fontana completed the top five for MW Arden and Tech 1.

Robert Visiou was sixth for Jenzer, ahead of Carlin's Tom Blomqvist and ART's Daniel Abt - the pace-setter at Barcelona.

Tamas Pal Kiss and Conor Daly completed the top 10 for Atech CRS and ART respectively.

Day One times:

Pos  Driver               Team                  Time        Gap
 1.  Tio Ellinas          Manor                 1m34.748s
 2.  David Fumanelli      MW Arden              1m34.798s   + 0.050s
 3.  Matias Laine         Manor                 1m34.819s   + 0.071s
 4.  Maxim Zimin          MW Arden              1m34.937s   + 0.189s
 5.  Alex Fontana         Tech 1                1m34.988s   + 0.240s
 6.  Robert Visoiu        Jenzer                1m35.015s   + 0.267s
 7.  Tom Blomqvist        Carlin                1m35.039s   + 0.291s
 8.  Daniel Abt           ART                   1m35.058s   + 0.310s
 9.  Tamas Pal Kiss       Atech CRS             1m35.059s   + 0.311s
10.  Conor Daly           ART                   1m35.146s   + 0.398s
11.  Michael Heche        Jenzer                1m35.222s   + 0.474s
12.  Nigel Melker         Trident               1m35.267s   + 0.519s
13.  Michael Christensen  RSC Mucke             1m35.344s   + 0.596s
14.  Gabby Chaves         Tech 1                1m35.374s   + 0.626s
15.  Patric Niederhauser  Jenzer                1m35.424s   + 0.676s
16.  Marlon Stockinger    Status                1m35.477s   + 0.729s
17.  Pascal Wehrlein      RSC Mucke             1m35.669s   + 0.921s
18.  Brandon Maisano      MW Arden              1m36.090s   + 1.342s
19.  Kotaro Sakurai       Status                1m36.307s   + 1.559s
20.  Stephan Richelmi     Trident               1m36.366s   + 1.618s
21.  Dmitry Suranovich    Manor                 1m36.372s   + 1.624s
22.  Jim Pla              Carlin                1m36.405s   + 1.657s
23.  Kristian Lindbom     Tech 1                1m36.438s   + 1.690s
24.  Facu Regalia         ART                   1m36.838s   + 2.090s
25.  Fabio Gamberini      Status                1m37.239s   + 2.491s
26.  Michela Cerruti      Trident               1m38.509s   + 3.761s
27.  Ethan Ringel         Atech CRS             1m39.101s   + 4.353s