Silverstone British F3: Jordan King on top in practice

In a damp opening session, the Englishman and his Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen lapped over a second quicker than the Double R Racing Dallara-Mercedes of Italian Antonio Giovinazzi.

With track conditions and tyre choice varying, times were well spread out in this session.

Third-placed Felipe Guimaraes, who has joined the Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes team for British F3 only, was 2.1s slower than King, but narrowly edged out his team-mate, Fortec returnee Will Buller.

Jann Mardenborough, fifth in the morning's one-hour session, went fastest in the afternoon as conditions deteriorated further. In a short run in between the first and second of three red flags, the Carlin-run Welshman leapfrogged King and Giovinazzi.

Giovinazzi was fast but had an incident, while Nicholas Latifi caused a red flag and Tatiana Calderon had the accident that brought testing to a premature conclusion.

Ed Jones was comfortably the fastest of the National Class runners in his European F3 Open-spec Team West-Tec car, heading the CF Racing Dallara-Mugen Honda of Sun Zheng.

West-Tec's Roberto la Rocca missed the second session, while MSV F3 Cup leader Alice Powell had a delayed flight on her return to the UK and only got out when conditions were at their worst in the afternoon.


Pos Driver              Team/Car                      Time    
 1. Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW             2m01.688s
 2. Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc         2m02.777s  + 1.089s
 3. Felipe Guimaraes    Fortec Dallara-Merc           2m03.836s  + 2.148s
 4. Will Buller         Fortec Dallara-Merc           2m03.879s  + 2.191s
 5. Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW             2m03.976s  + 2.288s
 6. Felix Serralles     Fortec Dallara-Merc           2m04.273s  + 2.585s
 7. Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc         2m04.829s  + 3.141s
 8. Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW             2m06.375s  + 4.687s
 9. Ed Jones            West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m06.435s  + 4.747s
10. Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc         2m07.342s  + 5.654s
11. John Bryant-Meisner Performance Dallara-VW***     2m08.410s  + 6.722s
12. Sun Zheng           CF Dallara-Mugen*             2m08.953s  + 7.265s
13. Chris Vlok          West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m10.276s  + 8.588s
14. Huan Zhu            West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m12.435s  + 10.747s
15. Cameron Twynhan     West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m13.605s  + 11.917s
16. Liam Venter         West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m15.754s  + 14.066s
17. Roberto la Rocca    West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m16.409s  + 14.721s
18. Sean Walkinshaw     West-Tec Dallara-Toyota*      2m21.032s  + 19.344s
19. Alice Powell        Mark Bailey Dallara-Toyota**  2m26.549s  + 24.861s

* National Class
** National B Class
*** Invitation Class