Jaafar fastest in Silverstone F3 test
Jazeman Jaafar led a Carlin one-two-three after the final day of the second official British Formula 3 test of the new season at Silverstone today
The Malaysian was the only driver to dip below the 1m53s barrier on the Grand Prix circuit, and his best lap from the fourth and final session of the day was enough to outpace team-mate Felipe Nasr by 0.139 seconds.
Racing Steps Foundation-backed driver Jack Harvey made it a trio of ex-Formula BMW Europe drivers in the top three by going third quickest, just under three tenths shy of the best time.
Double R Racing duo Pipo Derani and Scott Pye showed marked improvement to wind up fourth and fifth - and best of the non-Volkswagen-powered drivers on day two.
Reigning British Formula Ford champion Pye was second fastest in the day's opening wet session and both he and Brazilian team-mate Derani lapped their Dallara-Mercedes cars within four tenths of the outright pace in the dry.
Yesterday's pacesetter Carlos Huertas ended up sixth fastest, less than four hundredths of a second slower than Pye and just over half a tenth faster than the similar Dallara-VW of team-mate Kevin Magnussen.
T-Sport's Menasheh Idafar showed strongly on day two to go eighth fastest, after topping the times in the penultimate session of the test.
Pietro Fantin (Hitech), Rupert Svendsen-Cook (Carlin) and Hywel Lloyd (Sino Vision) rounded out the top 11 places, which were all covered by less than six tenths of a second around the 3.66-mile circuit.
Frontrunning squad Fortec again struggled to get within a second of the outright pace with its trio of Dallara-Mercedes. Lucas Foresti was fastest in the morning's wet session but was 0.979s adrift in 12th in the dry, while team-mates Harry Tincknell and Will Buller were 14th and 15th, 1.312s and 1.594s off the pace respectively.
Pos Driver Team Car Time Gap 1. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin Dallara-VW 1m52.920s 2. Felipe Nasr Carlin Dallara-VW 1m53.059s + 0.139s 3. Jack Harvey Carlin Dallara-VW 1m53.207s + 0.287s 4. Pipo Derani Double R Dallara-Merc 1m53.267s + 0.347s 5. Scott Pye Double R Dallara-Merc 1m53.306s + 0.386s 6. Carlos Huertas Carlin Dallara-VW 1m53.344s + 0.424s 7. Kevin Magnussen Carlin Dallara-VW 1m53.396s + 0.476s 8. Menasheh Idafar T-Sport Dallara-VW 1m53.415s + 0.495s 9. Pietro Fantin Hitech Dallara-VW 1m53.469s + 0.549s 10. Rupert Svendsen-Cook Carlin Dallara-VW 1m53.479s + 0.559s 11. Hywel Lloyd Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 1m53.503s + 0.583s 12. Lucas Foresti Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m53.899s + 0.979s 13. Riki Christodoulou Hitech Dallara-VW 1m53.914s + 0.994s 14. Harry Tincknell Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m54.232s + 1.312s 15. William Buller Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m54.514s + 1.594s 16. Yann Cunha T-Sport Dallara-VW 1m54.747s + 1.827s 17. Adderly Fong Sino Vision Dallara-Merc 1m55.064s + 2.144s 18. Bart Hylkema T-Sport Dallara-Mugen 1m55.402s + 2.482s 19. Kotaru Sakurai Hitech Dallara-Mugen 1m58.092s + 5.172s
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