Muller fastest in GP3 practice

Muller's best time of 1m38.181s left him nearly 0.3 seconds clear of closest rival and team-mate Pal Varhaug. A quickest second sector on the final lap suggested that the latter might have been able to go faster still, but his car developed a problem before he could finish the lap and left him crawling back to the pits.

Series leader Esteban Gutierrez (ART) was third ahead of Status' Robert Wickens, with Jenzer's Marco Barba the quickest of the three drivers making their series debut this weekend in fifth.

Another newcomer, Carlin's Antonio Felix Da Costa, had a tougher introduction to the series when he crashed at the first corner five minutes before the session ended.

Pos  Driver                  Team       Time       Gap
 1.  Nico Muller             Jenzer     1m38.181s
 2.  Pal Varhaug             Jenzer     1m38.452s  + 0.271s
 3.  Esteban Gutierrez       ART        1m38.453s  + 0.272s
 4.  Robert Wickens          Status     1m38.477s  + 0.296s
 5.  Marco Barba             Jenzer     1m38.509s  + 0.328s
 6.  Felipe Guimaraes        Addax      1m38.515s  + 0.334s
 7.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs     Manor      1m38.585s  + 0.404s
 8.  Stefano Coletti         Tech 1     1m38.607s  + 0.426s
 9.  Dean Smith              Carlin     1m38.754s  + 0.573s
10.  Doru Sechelariu         Tech 1     1m38.829s  + 0.648s
11.  Alexander Rossi         ART        1m38.840s  + 0.659s
12.  Daniel Morad            Status     1m38.842s  + 0.661s
13.  Miki Monras             MW Arden   1m38.847s  + 0.666s
14.  Roberto Merhi           Atech CRS  1m38.858s  + 0.677s
15.  Mirko Bortolotti        Addax      1m39.036s  + 0.855s
16.  Josef Newgarden         Carlin     1m39.038s  + 0.857s
17.  Renger van der Zande    RSC Mucke  1m39.086s  + 0.905s
18.  Pedro Nunes             ART        1m39.189s  + 1.008s
19.  Tobias Hegewald         RSC Mucke  1m39.202s  + 1.021s
20.  Adrien Tambay           Manor      1m39.251s  + 1.070s
21.  Michael Christensen     MW Arden   1m39.360s  + 1.179s
22.  Pablo Sanchez Lopez     Addax      1m39.391s  + 1.210s
23.  Oliver Oakes            Atech CRS  1m39.443s  + 1.262s
24.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Carlin     1m39.483s  + 1.302s
25.  Rio Haryanto            Manor      1m39.793s  + 1.612s
26.  Ivan Lukashevich        Status     1m39.953s  + 1.772s
27.  Leonardo Cordeiro       MW Arden   1m40.649s  + 2.468s
28.  Vittorio Ghirelli       Atech CRS  1m40.729s  + 2.548s
29.  Nigel Melker            RSC Mucke  1m40.904s  + 2.723s