Matthew Parry leads Friday's GP3 Series test at Valencia

Heavy rain before the session meant the drivers had to be especially cautious early on, but the rain eased off and the track conditions improved throughout the morning.

The times came tumbling down in the final few minutes before the break, and Parry just managed to go first, with the top three separated by less than a tenth.

ART GP drivers Nirei Fukuzumi, Charles Leclerc, and Alexander Albon went second, third and fourth fastest respectively, with Thursday's pacesetter Arthur Janosz rounding off the top five.

The second half of testing consisted mainly of high fuel runs, and with the track still cold none of the 24 drivers managed a time under 1m22s.

Leclerc posted the fastest time in the afternoon, followed by Jake Hughes for DAMS in second, and Parry in third.

There was a short red flag in the morning's session when Parry's team-mate Ralph Boschung stopped on the start line.

The Koiranen team managed to sort out the issue and he went on to post the fifth fastest time in the afternoon.

MORNING TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1m21.476s	-	41
2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1m21.560s	0.084s	52
3	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1m21.564s	0.088s	50
4	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1m21.598s	0.122s	53
5	Artur Janosz	Trident	1m21.673s	0.197s	56
6	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1m21.697s	0.221s	53
7	Oscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	1m21.796s	0.320s	48
8	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1m21.820s	0.344s	49
9	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	1m21.989s	0.513s	45
10	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1m22.016s	0.540s	45
11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1m22.041s	0.565s	54
12	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1m22.056s	0.580s	46
13	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1m22.088s	0.612s	54
14	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1m22.147s	0.671s	41
15	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1m22.189s	0.713s	57
16	Kevin Jorg	DAMS	1m22.203s	0.727s	48
17	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1m22.340s	0.864s	53
18	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1m22.340s	0.864s	45
19	Mahaveer Raghunathan	Koiranen GP	1m22.477s	1.001s	52
20	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	1m22.505s	1.029s	60
21	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	1m22.531s	1.055s	49
22	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1m22.847s	1.371s	28
23	Konstantin Tereschenko	Campos Racing	1m22.850s	1.374s	29
24	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1m23.466s	1.990s	28

AFTERNOON TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1m22.089s	-	34
2	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1m22.166s	0.077s	46
3	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1m22.195s	0.106s	46
4	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1m22.243s	0.154s	42
5	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1m22.366s	0.277s	54
6	Kevin Jorg	DAMS	1m22.433s	0.344s	38
7	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1m22.500s	0.411s	63
8	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1m22.509s	0.420s	49
9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1m22.531s	0.442s	47
10	Konstantin Tereschenko	Campos Racing	1m22.598s	0.509s	31
11	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1m22.621s	0.532s	64
12	Artur Janosz	Trident	1m22.627s	0.538s	38
13	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1m22.686s	0.597s	39
14	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1m22.725s	0.636s	40
15	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1m22.775s	0.686s	46
16	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	1m22.833s	0.744s	34
17	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	1m22.878s	0.789s	34
18	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	1m22.951s	0.862s	38
19	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1m23.007s	0.918s	53
20	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1m23.169s	1.080s	49
21	Oscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	1m23.232s	1.143s	45
22	Mahaveer Raghunathan	Koiranen GP	1m23.505s	1.416s	29
23	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1m24.961s	2.872s	48
24	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1m25.078s	2.989s	42