ART driver Nirei Fukuzumi leads day one of GP3 test at Estoril
Nirei Fukuzumi topped the first day of the GP3 Series test at Estoril for the ART Grand Prix team
The 19-year-old Japanese Formula 3 graduate set his best time in the afternoon session, which featured laptimes nearly a second faster than those posted in the morning.
Fukuzumi ended up just 16 thousandths faster than Jake Dennis's Arden machine.
The top four were covered by just nine hundredths of a second, with Alexander Albon and Charles Leclerc making it three ART cars in the top four.
Arden International's Jack Aitken and DAMS driver Jake Hughes rounded out the top six, both lapping around a quarter-of-a-second off the pace.
The morning session was topped by Campos Racing driver Steijn Schothorst, who was only nineteenth in the afternoon, with Dennis and Albon completing the top three.
Fukuzumi was seventh, two seconds off the time he set in the afternoon session.
There were two red flags during the morning session, the first triggered when Tatiana Calderon's Arden car stopped with a technical problem and the second when Konstantin Tereshchenko put his Campos Racing car in the gravel.
Tereshchenko then caused another red flag in the afternoon, this time for technical reasons.
The test will last three days, concluding on Thursday.
TUESDAY MORNING TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steijn Schothorst | Campos Racing | 1m29.792s | - | 26 |
2 | Jake Dennis | Arden International | 1m30.191s | 0.399s | 17 |
3 | Alexander Albon | ART Grand Prix | 1m30.417s | 0.625s | 25 |
4 | Santino Ferrucci | DAMS | 1m30.546s | 0.754s | 31 |
5 | Alex Palou | Campos Racing | 1m30.582s | 0.790s | 25 |
6 | Matt Parry | Koiranen GP | 1m30.590s | 0.798s | 12 |
7 | Nirei Fukuzumi | ART Grand Prix | 1m30.754s | 0.962s | 30 |
8 | Jake Hughes | DAMS | 1m30.765s | 0.973s | 30 |
9 | Ralph Boschung | Koiranen GP | 1m31.029s | 1.237s | 18 |
10 | Konstantin Tereschenko | Campos Racing | 1m31.202s | 1.410s | 18 |
11 | Nyck de Vries | ART Grand Prix | 1m31.310s | 1.518s | 23 |
12 | Jack Aitken | Arden International | 1m31.390s | 1.598s | 14 |
13 | Artur Janosz | Trident | 1m31.626s | 1.834s | 25 |
14 | Giuliano Alesi | Trident | 1m31.715s | 1.923s | 21 |
15 | Kevin Jorg | DAMS | 1m31.764s | 1.972s | 17 |
16 | Akash Nandy | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m31.920s | 2.128s | 28 |
17 | Tatiana Calderon | Arden International | 1m32.499s | 2.707s | 12 |
18 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Koiranen GP | 1m32.576s | 2.784s | 9 |
19 | Sandy Stuvik | Trident | 1m40.830s | 11.038s | 35 |
20 | Antonio Fuoco | Trident | 1m46.339s | 16.547s | 27 |
21 | Charles Leclerc | ART Grand Prix | 1m49.396s | 19.604s | 5 |
- | Matevos Isaakyan | Koiranen GP | - | - | 2 |
- | Oscar Tunjo | Jenzer Motorsport | - | - | 2 |
TUESDAY AFTERNOON TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nirei Fukuzumi | ART Grand Prix | 1m28.645s | - | 39 |
2 | Jake Dennis | Arden International | 1m28.661s | 0.016s | 15 |
3 | Alexander Albon | ART Grand Prix | 1m28.705s | 0.060s | 36 |
4 | Charles Leclerc | ART Grand Prix | 1m28.735s | 0.090s | 36 |
5 | Jack Aitken | Arden International | 1m28.867s | 0.222s | 27 |
6 | Jake Hughes | DAMS | 1m28.905s | 0.260s | 26 |
7 | Matt Parry | Koiranen GP | 1m28.978s | 0.333s | 21 |
8 | Alex Palou | Campos Racing | 1m29.031s | 0.386s | 29 |
9 | Kevin Jorg | DAMS | 1m29.133s | 0.488s | 33 |
10 | Oscar Tunjo | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m29.150s | 0.505s | 35 |
11 | Ralph Boschung | Koiranen GP | 1m29.176s | 0.531s | 25 |
12 | Giuliano Alesi | Trident | 1m29.378s | 0.733s | 33 |
13 | Artur Janosz | Trident | 1m29.624s | 0.979s | 30 |
14 | Tatiana Calderon | Arden International | 1m29.646s | 1.001s | 27 |
15 | Konstantin Tereschenko | Campos Racing | 1m29.763s | 1.118s | 29 |
16 | Santino Ferrucci | DAMS | 1m29.777s | 1.132s | 28 |
17 | Nyck de Vries | ART Grand Prix | 1m30.143s | 1.498s | 25 |
18 | Akash Nandy | Jenzer Motorsport | 1m30.266s | 1.621s | 26 |
19 | Steijn Schothorst | Campos Racing | 1m31.060s | 2.415s | 35 |
20 | Matevos Isaakyan | Koiranen GP | 1m31.548s | 2.903s | 34 |
21 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Koiranen GP | 1m31.694s | 3.049s | 22 |
22 | Sandy Stuvik | Trident | 1m38.694s | 10.049s | 50 |
23 | Antonio Fuoco | Trident | 1m40.681s | 12.036s | 37 |
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