Fleming quickest in first test
Carlin Motorsport's Colin Fleming was fastest overall at the first World Series by Renault pre-season test
The full 30 car field came out for the two day test at Barcelona, where this year's championship will culminate on 28-29 October.
Red Bull backed American Fleming set his pacesetting 1:26.193 lap on Thursday morning. His Carlin Motorsport team was satisfied enough to wrap up testing early.
"We'd rather save our tyres for the next round of testing in Le Mans," Fleming explained. "We've put in some excellent work here and I reckon we are going to be among those fighting it out for victory this season."
Pastor Maldonado, another series returnee, had been quickest on the opening morning and ended the test second overall.
Formula Three graduate Davide Valsecchi took third for 2005 WSR champions Epsilon Euskadi, ahead of former GP2 driver Borja Garcia.
Reigning Spanish Formula Three champion Andy Soucek went quickest on the final afternoon, putting him sixth on the overall timesheets, behind Ben Hanley.
Combined testing times from Barcelona:
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Colin Fleming Carlin Motorsport 1:26.193 2. Pastor Maldonado Draco Multiracing USA 1:26.226 3. Davide Valsecchi Epsilon Euskadi 1:26.275 4. Borja Garcia RC Motorsport 1:26.442 5. Ben Hanley Cram Competition 1:26.683 6. Andy Soucek Interwetten.com 1:26.775 7. Michael Aleshin Carlin Motorsport 1:26.830 8. Alx Danielsson Comtec 1:26.991 9. Alvaro Parente Victory Engineering 1:27.353 10. Christian Montanari Prema Powerteam 1:27.470 11. James Rossiter Pons Racing 1:27.524 12. Ryo Fukuda Tech 1 Racing 1:27.575 13. Sean McIntosh KTR 1:27.624 14. Steven Kane Epsilon Euskadi 1:27.732 15. Robbie Kerr KTR 1:27.740 16. Hayanari Shimoda Victory Engineering 1:27.885 17. Patrick Pilet GD Racing 1:27.893 18. Alvaro Barba Jenzer Motorsport 1:27.927 19. Bruce Jouanny RC Motorsport 1:27.946 20. Milos Pavlovic Cram Competition 1:27.980 21. Tomas Kostka Draco Multiracing USA 1:28.045 22. Gregory Franchi Prema Powerteam 1:28.054 23. Eric Salignon Interwetten.com 1:28.301 24. Matteo Meneghello GD Racing 1:28.492 25. Pascal Kochem Eurointernational 1:28.576 26. Celso Miguez Pons Racing 1:28.980 27. Alessandro Bonetti Jenzer Motorsport 1:29.130 28. Jerome D'Ambrosio Tech 1 Racing 1:29.305 29. Tor Graves Eurointernational 1:30.671 30. Edwin Jowsey Comtec 1:30.974
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