By alley - Apr 10, 2015, 9:31 AM ET

GP3: Palou tops Valencia testing for Campos

Campos Racing's Alex Palou finished GP3's second pre-season test at Valencia on top, edging out Marvin Kirchhofer.

After leading the morning session on Thursday's opening day of running, the Spaniard was quick out of the blocks again on Friday. With the fastest times set in the opening hour before teams reverted to race simulations, Palou was the first driver into the 1m21s bracket with a 1m20.880s.

While day one pacesetter Kirchhofer was quick to respond with a time just 0.012 seconds adrift, Palou's effort would remain the best of the morning and indeed the day at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

Kirchhofer's ART teammate, reigning European Formula 3 champion Esteban Ocon was third fastest and exactly one tenth off Palou.

Filling in for Lotus F1 reserve driver Adderly Fong at Koiranen, Kevin Korjus was fourth, ahead of Matheo Tuscher, Jimmy Eriksson, Alfonso Celis Jr. and Ralph Boschung.

Jenzer Motorsport's Pal Varhaug completed the top 10, before topping the afternoon session, in which the best times were almost a full second slower than the morning benchmark.

Varhaug recorded a 1m21.719s inside the final hour to lead Carlin's Mitchell Gilbert - 19th in the morning on another quiet day for the team - Korjus, Eriksson, Seb Morris and Oscar Tunjo.

Kirchofer caused a late red flag when he stopped at Turn 12 and was 18th, one spot ahead of Palou.

Barcelona will host the final pre-season test on April 22-23, and next month's season opener as part of the Spanish Grand Prix bill.

MORNING TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	1m 20.880s	-	35
2	Marvin Kirchhofer	ART Grand Prix	1m 20.892s	0.012s	26
3	Esteban Ocon	ART Grand Prix	1m 20.980s	0.100s	31
4	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen GP	1m 21.144s	0.264s	38
5	Matheo Tuscher	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 21.165s	0.285s	42
6	Jimmy Eriksson	Koiranen GP	1m 21.215s	0.335s	33
7	Alfonso Celis	ART Grand Prix	1m 21.324s	0.444s	24
8	Ralph Boschung	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 21.343s	0.463s	31
9	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1m 21.382s	0.502s	33
10	Pal Varhaug	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 21.384s	0.504s	40
11	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1m 21.424s	0.544s	50
12	Oscar Tunjo	Trident	1m 21.425s	0.545s	34
13	Antonio Fuoco	Carlin	1m 21.443s	0.563s	39
14	Jann Mardenborough	Carlin	1m 21.588s	0.708s	34
15	Emil Bernstorff	Arden International	1m 21.591s	0.711s	48
16	Sandy Stuvik	Status Grand Prix	1m 21.598s	0.718s	55
17	Alex Fontana	Status Grand Prix	1m 21.618s	0.738s	43
18	Zaid Ashkanani	Campos Racing	1m 21.727s	0.847s	43
19	Mitchell Gilbert	Carlin	1m 21.810s	0.930s	43
20	Seb Morris	Status Grand Prix	1m 21.874s	0.994s	30
21	Kevin Ceccon	Arden International	1m 22.118s	1.238s	43
22	Artur Janosz	Trident	1m 22.671s	1.791s	40
23	Alex Bosak	Arden International	1m 22.770s	1.890s	37
24	Samin Gomez	Campos Racing	1m 23.414s	2.534s	35

AFTERNOON TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Pal Varhaug	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 21.719s	-	17
2	Mitchell Gilbert	Carlin	1m 22.021s	0.302s	65
3	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen GP	1m 22.064s	0.345s	39
4	Jimmy Eriksson	Koiranen GP	1m 22.086s	0.367s	49
5	Seb Morris	Status Grand Prix	1m 22.222s	0.503s	35
6	Oscar Tunjo	Trident	1m 22.258s	0.539s	44
7	Antonio Fuoco	Carlin	1m 22.263s	0.544s	64
8	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1m 22.281s	0.562s	30
9	Kevin Ceccon	Arden International	1m 22.316s	0.597s	36
10	Alex Fontana	Status Grand Prix	1m 22.332s	0.613s	42
11	Zaid Ashkanani	Campos Racing	1m 22.383s	0.664s	30
12	Emil Bernstorff	Arden International	1m 22.393s	0.674s	53
13	Matheo Tuscher	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 22.551s	0.832s	47
14	Sandy Stuvik	Status Grand Prix	1m 22.683s	0.964s	48
15	Esteban Ocon	ART Grand Prix	1m 23.199s	1.480s	65
16	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1m 23.275s	1.556s	43
17	Samin Gomez	Campos Racing	1m 23.486s	1.767s	38
18	Marvin Kirchhofer	ART Grand Prix	1m 23.618s	1.899s	30
19	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	1m 23.705s	1.986s	45
20	Artur Janosz	Trident	1m 23.821s	2.102s	43
21	Ralph Boschung	Jenzer Motorsport	1m 23.983s	2.264s	55
22	Alex Bosak	Arden International	1m 24.169s	2.450s	38
23	Jann Mardenborough	Carlin	1m 24.433s	2.714s	64
24	Alfonso Celis	ART Grand Prix	1m 24.522s	2.803s	62