Alguersuari tops final Barcelona test

Alguersuari's lap of 1m33.537s, set with just seconds remaining in the hour-long session, demolished the previous best time recorded by Bertrand Baguette by seven tenths of a second.

Third-year driver Baguette was bumped down to third by an outstanding late effort from Tech 1's rookie Brendon Hartley. The Kiwi, Alguersuari's team-mate at Carlin Motorsport in British F3 las season, just completed his flying lap as the chequered flag came out.

The second to fifth place drivers were separated by just hundredths of a second with Turvey fourth behind Baguette and ahead of Adrian Zaugg.

Like Hartley, Zaugg showed no ill effects of having missed the pre-season tests, with his Interwetten team having brought in long time Carlin FR3.5 team manager Harvey Spencer to work on his car.

Charles Pic shaved 0.04s off his morning time but repeated his earlier position of sixth. The Frenchman ended the day one place ahead of the morning pacesetter Miguel Molina, who concentrated on race set-up work.

Expected frontrunner James Walker was hit by gearbox problems and ended the session 11th.

Pos Driver                   Team            Time          Gap
 1. Jaime Alguersuari        Carlin          1m33.537s
 2. Brendon Hartley          Tech 1          1m34.214s  +0.677
 3. Bertrand Baguette        Draco           1m34.221s  +0.684
 4. Oliver Turvey            Carlin          1m34.237s  +0.700
 5. Adrian Zaugg             Interwetten     1m34.268s  +0.731
 6. Charles Pic              Tech 1          1m34.454s  +0.917
 7. Miguel Molina            Ultimate        1m34.568s  +1.031
 8. Chris van der Drift      Epsilon         1m34.612s  +1.075
 9. Federico Leo             Pons            1m34.825s  +1.288
10. Marco Barba              Draco           1m35.062s  +1.525
11. James Walker             P1              1m35.366s  +1.829
12. Mihai Marinescu          Interwetten     1m35.416s  +1.879
13. Anton Nebylitskiy        Comtec          1m35.439s  +1.902
14. Adrian Valles            Epsilon         1m35.444s  +1.907
15. Julian Leal              Prema           1m35.613s  +2.076
16. Daniil Move              P1              1m35.627s  +2.090
17. Haralds Schlegelmilch    Comtec          1m35.718s  +2.181
18. Fairuz Fauzy             Fortec          1m35.854s  +2.317
19. Sten Pentus              Fortec          1m36.146s  +2.609
20. Greg Mansell             Ultimate        1m36.148s  +2.611
21. Frankie Provenzano       Prema           1m36.195s  +2.658
22. Pasquale di Sabatino     RC              1m36.642s  +3.105
23. Marcos Martinez          Pons            1m36.848s  +3.311