Fuoco sweeps Day 2 of Estoril test

Ferrari protege Antonio Fuoco set the pace on the second day of GP3 pre-season testing at Estoril, topping both sessions.

Fuoco, who joined Trident after having contested his debut season with Carlin last year, became the first driver to dip into the 1m27s margin with the new GP3/16 car in the morning session.

And he then went on to top the afternoon as well, both of his benchmarks good enough to lead to timesheets at the day's end.

The Italian set his best lap in the final hour of the first session and ended up two tenths in the clear, with ART Grand Prix driver Alex Albon and Arden's Jack Aitken as his nearest rivals.

Jake Hughes took fourth for DAMS while Albon's teammates Nirei Fukuzumi, Charles Leclerc and Nyck de Vries were fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.

In session two, Fuoco again took over in the closing stages, going top after a red flag caused by fellow Ferrari protege Leclerc, and came up just a tenth short of his morning lap, with Aitken now trailing him by only 0.062s.

Fuoco's teammate Artur Janosz was third, ahead of Jake Dennis and de Vries.

Day 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1:27.991	1:28.079
2	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1:28.253	1:28.141
3	Artur Janosz	Trident	1:28.763	1:28.193
4	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:28.231	1:31.620
5	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1:29.214	1:28.250
6	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1:28.570	1:28.316
7	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1:28.419	1:30.865
8	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1:28.809	1:28.450
9	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:28.481	1:31.431
10	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1:28.505	1:32.342
11	Kevin Jorg	DAMS	1:28.733	1:28.552
12	Oscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	1:28.575	1:28.790
13	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	1:28.667	1:30.637
14	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1:30.698	1:28.765
15	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1:29.030	1:28.822
16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1:28.932	1:29.322
17	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1:28.977	1:29.030
18	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1:29.499	1:29.128
19	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	No Time	1:29.144
20	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1:29.342	1:29.162
21	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1:29.792	1:29.434
22	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	1:29.466	1:31.216
23	Mahaveer Raghunathan	Koiranen GP	1:30.234	1:30.898