Kanamaru ends F3.5 Barcelona test on top

Yu Kanamaru, driving for newcomer team Teo Martin Motorsport, topped the second and final day of Formula V8 3.5 testing at Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona.

The Japanese driver set his best lap of the day - a 1m29.571s - an hour into the running and immediately retreated back into the pits, sitting out the rest of the morning session.

French drivers Aurelien Panis (Arden) and Tom Dillmann (AVF), the former having topped both sessions on Tuesday, completed their best laps at around the same time as Kanamaru, placing second and third as the only other competitors to go below 1m30s.

Strakka's Emil Bernstorff was just four thousandths away from crossing that benchmark in fourth, with Renault junior Louis Deletraz taking fifth.

Kanamaru led a fair bit of the afternoon as well, before being overtaken by Johnny Cecotto - only for the Venezuelan to be passed by Kanamaru's teammate Matevos Isaakyan with 10 minutes to go.

Matthieu Vaxiviere was third behind the duo, with Alfonso Celis and Rene Binder making up the top five.

Day 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Yu Kanamaru	Teo Martin Motorsport	1:29.571	1:31.404
2	Aurelien Panis	Arden Motorsport	1:29.762	1:33.265
3	Tom Dillmann	AVF	1:29.994	1:31.727
4	Emil Bernstorff	Strakka Racing	1:30.004	1:32.168
5	Louis Deletraz	Fortec Motorsports	1:30.090	1:31.790
6	Roy Nissany	Lotus	1:30.148	1:32.050
7	Rene Binder	Lotus	1:30.277	1:31.389
8	Beitske Visser	Strakka Racing	1:30.369	1:32.421
9	Matthieu Vaxiviere	SMP Racing	1:30.380	1:30.756
10	Pietro Fittipaldi	Fortec Motorsports	1:30.381	1:33.438
11	Matevos Isaakyan	Teo Martin Motorsport	1:30.425	1:30.596
12	Egor Orudzhev	Arden Motorsport	1:30.571	1:31.399
13	Johnny Cecotto	RP Motorsport	1:31.113	1:30.633
14	Alfonso Celis	AVF	1:30.779	1:31.059
15	Vitor Baptista	RP Motorsport	1:30.872	1:31.621
16	Vladimir Atoev	SMP Racing	1:31.788	1:32.598
17	Giuseppe Cipriani	Durango Racing Team	1:36.994	1:37.450