Baguette leads FR3.5 practice at Spa

Last year's victor Baguette led the way on home soil with a best lap of 2m05.185s, ahead of team-mate Barba. Adrian Valles was third fastest for Epsilon Euskadi, nearly one second adrift of Baguette's pace.

Barcelona pole-sitter Charles Pic put in a late effort to jump James Walker for fourth, with the lone RC Motorsport car of Pasquale di Sabatino completing the top six.

"It's great to be at Spa, but we were actually quite stressed before coming here," confessed Baguette. "At Barcelona we were not where we wanted to be, so we had to change a lot of things on the car. We worked a lot at home looking at data and I think that at the moment we are not far from something good.

"At the moment everything is going well and I am happy with the car. I didn't put on any new tyres, they're from the race in Barcelona, but I don't know how the others are with tyres. We will have to see if we can keep our advantage this afternoon."

At his debut Formula Renault 3.5 meeting, Formula Renault 2.0 graduate Tobias Hegewald ended the hour-long session eighth fastest with Interwetten Racing.

Comtec's returnee, Alex Marsoin, had an early spin between Les Combes and Malmedy and finished the session down in 22nd.

"It's quite a surprise for me to be here at all," said Marsoin. "We'll have to see after this weekend what will happen for the rest of the season.

"This morning I had a spin on my own after five laps, but last year Comtec had a good car with Marco Bonanomi on pole position, so I am sure things will improve this afternoon."

Pos Driver                  Team            Time           Gap
 1. Bertrand Baguette       Draco           2m05.185s
 2. Marco Barba             Draco           2m05.812s   +0.627
 3. Adrian Valles           Epsilon         2m06.138s   +0.953
 4. Charles Pic             Tech 1          2m06.253s   +1.068
 5. James Walker            P1              2m06.622s   +1.437
 6. Pasquale di Sabatino    RC              2m06.625s   +1.440
 7. Fairuz Fauzy            Fortec          2m06.676s   +1.491
 8. Tobias Hegewald         Interwetten     2m06.995s   +1.810
 9. Marcos Martinez         Pons            2m07.014s   +1.829
10. Brendon Hartley         Tech 1          2m07.025s   +1.840
11. Adrian Zaugg            Interwetten     2m07.125s   +1.940
12. Oliver Turvey           Carlin          2m07.221s   +2.036
13. Sten Pentus             Fortec          2m07.314s   +2.129
14. Federico Leo            Pons            2m07.526s   +2.341
15. Anton Nebylitskiy       Comtec          2m07.826s   +2.641
16. Jaime Alguersuari       Carlin          2m07.843s   +2.658
17. Daniil Move             P1              2m08.293s   +3.108
18. Greg Mansell            Ultimate        2m08.369s   +3.184
19. Chris van der Drift     Epsilon         2m08.640s   +3.455
20. Frankie Provenzano      Prema           2m08.804s   +3.619
21. Miguel Molina           Ultimate        2m09.656s   +4.471
22. Alex Marsoin            Comtec          2m09.949s   +4.764
23. Julian Leal             Prema           2m11.610s   +6.425