Photo: FIA F3 European Championship
The order of the top three was unchanged in the afternoon session on the first day of pre-season testing for the FIA F3 European Championship at Valencia, with Antonio Giovinazzi again leading rookies George Russell and Charles Leclerc.
Just as in the morning, Giovinazzi was the only driver to set a time within the 1m24s, this time shaving 11 thousandths of his earlier benchmark to post a 1m24.755s.
BRDC F4 champion Russell was fractionally slower than in the morning, 0.288s behind his Carlin team-mate, while Leclerc was again just within four tenths off the pace for Van Amersfoort Racing.
His fellow Formula Renault 2.0 graduate?Alex Albon improved to take fourth in the afternoon for Signature, ahead of Leclerc’s team-mate Arjun Maini.
Mucke Motorsport’s pair of ADAC Formel Masters graduates Mikkel Jensen and Maximilian Gunther were sixth and seventh, and the top Mercedes-powered runners, with Gunther continuing his strong showing from the morning, when he was fourth fastest.
Red Bull karting graduate Callum Ilott was in the top ten again in eighth for Carlin, fractionally faster than F3 veteran Felix Rosenqvist and top Motopark performer Sergio Sette Camara.
The third VAR car of Alessio Lorandi failed to complete a timed lap due to gearbox problems, while Motopark’s Sam MacLeod missed out entirely after only doing four laps in the morning.
Afternoon session results
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Carlin | 1:24.755 | 33 | |
| 2 | George Russell | Carlin | 1:25.043 | 0.288 | 32 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:25.141 | 0.386 | 52 |
| 4 | Alex Albon | Signature | 1:25.245 | 0.490 | 36 |
| 5 | Arjun Maini | Van Amersfoort Racing | 1:25.296 | 0.541 | 39 |
| 6 | Mikkel Jensen | Mucke Motorsport | 1:25.301 | 0.546 | 34 |
| 7 | Maximilian Gunther | Mucke Motorsport | 1:25.326 | 0.571 | 38 |
| 8 | Callum Ilott | Carlin | 1:25.401 | 0.646 | 45 |
| 9 | Felix Rosenqvist | Prema Powerteam | 1:25.406 | 0.651 | 36 |
| 10 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | 1:25.474 | 0.719 | 32 |
| 11 | Ryan Tveter | Carlin | 1:25.485 | 0.730 | 36 |
| 12 | Dorian Boccolacci | Signature | 1:25.524 | 0.769 | 41 |
| 13 | Gustavo Menezes | Carlin | 1:25.527 | 0.772 | 25 |
| 14 | Brandon Maisano | Prema Powerteam | 1:25.540 | 0.785 | 39 |
| 15 | Michele Beretta | Mucke Motorsport | 1:25.628 | 0.873 | 35 |
| 16 | Jake Dennis | Prema Powerteam | 1:25.631 | 0.876 | 39 |
| 17 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Fortec Motorsports | 1:25.674 | 0.919 | 19 |
| 18 | Santino Ferrucci | Mucke Motorsport | 1:25.726 | 0.971 | 31 |
| 19 | Tatiana Calderon | Carlin | 1:25.729 | 0.974 | 28 |
| 20 | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | 1:25.844 | 1.089 | 39 |
| 21 | Markus Pommer | Motopark | 1:25.857 | 1.102 | 25 |
| 22 | Sean Gelael | Carlin | 1:26.048 | 1.293 | 43 |
| 23 | Julio Moreno | T-Sport | 1:26.071 | 1.316 | 35 |
| 24 | Nicolas Beer | Eurointernational | 1:26.159 | 1.404 | 37 |
| 25 | Kang Ling | Mucke Motorsport | 1:26.211 | 1.456 | 31 |
| 26 | Nicolas Pohler | Double R Racing | 1:26.230 | 1.475 | 33 |
| 27 | Matt Rao | Fortec Motorsports | 1:26.273 | 1.518 | 38 |
| 28 | Nabil Jeffri | Motopark | 1:26.398 | 1.643 | 31 |
| 29 | Fabian Schiller | West-Tec | 1:26.533 | 1.778 | 33 |
| 30 | Martin Cao | Fortec Motorsports | 1:26.546 | 1.791 | 27 |
| 31 | Matt Solomon | Double R Racing | 1:26.560 | 1.805 | 39 |
| 32 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Motopark | 1:26.843 | 2.088 | 31 |
| 33 | Alessio Lorandi | Van Amersfoort Racing | No time | 2 |