Ricciardo tops wet FR3.5 test

The Australian decisively dealt with wet conditions, before dwindling visibility and a flooded track brought the session to a premature close. The ISR driver's time of 1m54.303s was full 1.2 seconds ahead of Gravity-Charouz's Brendon Hartley in second.

Spaniard Albert Costa ended the morning in third for Epsilon Euskadi, just 0.013s adrift of the Kiwi.

Former Le Mans Series champion Jan Charouz was an early pacesetter, ahead of P1 Motorsport team-mates Walter Grubmuller and Daniil Move.

Czech Charouz would slip to an eventual fourth, while Carlin's Robert Wickens and rookie Miki Monras bumped P1's pair to seventh and eighth.

Monras is fully committed to a debut campaign in this year's Formula 2 championship, but sampled Pons Racing's machine to gain experience.

Pos  Driver             Team             Time       Gap       Laps
 1.  Daniel Ricciardo   ISR              1m54.303s            22
 2.  Brendon Hartley    Gravity-Charouz  1m55.499s  + 1.196s  15
 3.  Albert Costa       Epsilon-Euskadi  1m55.512s  + 1.209s  24
 4.  Jan Charouz        Gravity-Charouz  1m55.663s  + 1.360s  15
 5.  Robert Wickens     Carlin           1m55.887s  + 1.584s  16
 6.  Miki Monras        Pons             1m55.958s  + 1.655s  26
 7.  Walter Grubmuller  P1               1m56.026s  + 1.723s  25
 8.  Daniil Move        P1               1m56.034s  + 1.731s  26
 9.  Jake Rosenzweig    Mofaz            1m56.073s  + 1.770s  21
10.  Arthur Pic         Tech 1           1m56.137s  + 1.834s  21
11.  Alexander Rossi    Fortec           1m56.545s  + 2.242s  21
12.  Cesar Ramos        Fortec           1m56.730s  + 2.427s  12
13.  Jean-Eric Vergne   Carlin           1m56.802s  + 2.499s  25
14.  Daniel de Jong     Comtec           1m57.084s  + 2.781s  18
15.  Anton Nebylitskiy  KMP              1m57.216s  + 2.913s  23
16.  Nelson Panciatici  KMP              1m57.368s  + 3.065s  15
17.  Daniel McKenzie    Comtec           1m57.516s  + 3.213s  24
18.  Oliver Webb        Pons             1m57.539s  + 3.236s  23
19.  Andre Negrao       Draco            1m57.803s  + 3.500s  24
20.  Stephane Richelmi  Draco            1m58.624s  + 4.321s  19
21.  Daniel Zampieri    BVM Target       1m59.308s  + 5.005s  20
22.  Sergio Canamasas   BVM Target       2m02.467s  + 8.164s  21
23.  Kevin Korjus       Tech 1           2m02.497s  + 8.194s  22
24.  Nathanael Berthon  ISR              2m02.654s  + 8.351s  9