By alley - Jun 29, 2016, 12:01 PM ET

F3: Lorandi fastest in testing

Pau Grand Prix winner Alessio Lorandi topped the opening salvo of the Formula 3 European Championship's two-day mid-season test at Hockenheim.

The Italian and his Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen stamped in the day's fastest time quite early in the opening session, at which point he was comfortably ahead of the opposition.

Most of the quick runners set their times during late runs toward the end of the morning, when it was Mikkel Jensen who emerged as the closest rival to Lorandi, the Dane finishing 0.089 seconds adrift in his Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes.

Very close behind were Van Amersfoort Racing's two British drivers, Callum Ilott and Harrison Newey, who sandwiched Hitech GP man George Russell.

Joel Eriksson, unlucky to be denied his maiden F3 win at the Norisring last weekend, rounded out the top six, and the Motopark-run Swede also topped the afternoon session, which was generally slightly slower.

Ilott was again in the reckoning, finishing a mere 0.004s adrift, while Lorandi backed up his morning form by claiming third in the afternoon.

Mucke's David Beckmann and VAR runner Pedro Piquet were fourth and fifth in the afternoon, while the Prema Powerteam car of Nick Cassidy, who was quickest in the afternoon before a spree of runs in the final hour, finished sixth.

That was the quickest performance all day for a driver from Prema, which traditionally keeps its powder dry in testing; the team's championship leader Lance Stroll had a best of seventh in the morning.

While most of the teams made the relatively short hop from last weekend's round at the Norisring, Fortec Motorsport arrived from Daventry to make its Euro F3 return.

Ferdinand Habsburg put in a respectable performance on only his second day in an FIA-spec F3 car on Hankook tires, lapping 15th fastest out of the 23 runners in the morning.

MORNING TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Alessio Lorandi	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.226ss	1m32.226s	39
2	Mikkel Jensen	kfzteile Mucke Motorsport	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.315ss	0.089s	48
3	Callum Ilott	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.331ss	0.105s	48
4	George Russell	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.333ss	0.107s	41
5	Harrison Newey	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.390ss	0.164s	40
6	Joel Eriksson	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.417ss	0.191s	33
7	Lance Stroll	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.467ss	0.241s	45
8	Ben Barnicoat	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.489ss	0.263s	37
9	David Beckmann	kfzteile Mucke Motorsport	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.657ss	0.431s	42
10	Ryan Tveter	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.767ss	0.541s	51
11	Pedro Piquet	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.824ss	0.598s	39
12	Niko Kari	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.867ss	0.641s	49
13	Anthoine Hubert	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.884ss	0.658s	53
14	Sergio Sette Camara	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.929ss	0.703s	35
15	Ferdinand Habsburg	Fortec Motorsports	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.965ss	0.739s	35
16	Nikita Mazepin	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.206ss	0.980s	39
17	Nick Cassidy	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.217ss	0.991s	42
18	Maximilian Gunther	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.222ss	0.996s	43
19	William Buller	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m33.227ss	1.001s	20
20	Guan Yu Zhou	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m33.288ss	1.062s	50
21	Weiron Tan	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m33.412ss	1.186s	42
22	Ralf Aron	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.436ss	1.210s	47
23	Vasiliy Romanov	Fortec Motorsports	Dallara/Mercedes	1m34.380ss	2.154s	39

AFTERNOON TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Joel Eriksson	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.531ss	1m32.531s	26
2	Callum Ilott	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.535ss	0.004s	39
3	Alessio Lorandi	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.577ss	0.046s	36
4	David Beckmann	kfzteile Mucke Motorsport	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.654ss	0.123s	35
5	Pedro Piquet	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.751ss	0.220s	29
6	Nick Cassidy	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.767ss	0.236s	37
7	Maximilian Gunther	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.806ss	0.275s	41
8	Ryan Tveter	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.809ss	0.278s	35
9	Niko Kari	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.818ss	0.287s	32
10	Ralf Aron	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.881ss	0.350s	36
11	Anthoine Hubert	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m32.924ss	0.393s	42
12	Sergio Sette Camara	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.924ss	0.393s	28
13	Guan Yu Zhou	Motopark	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m32.988ss	0.457s	32
14	Mikkel Jensen	kfzteile Mucke Motorsport	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.009ss	0.478s	25
15	George Russell	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.012ss	0.481s	33
16	Harrison Newey	Van Amersfoort Racing	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.219ss	0.688s	35
17	Lance Stroll	Prema Powerteam	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.264ss	0.733s	32
18	Weiron Tan	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m33.329ss	0.798s	34
19	Ben Barnicoat	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.332ss	0.801s	29
20	William Buller	Carlin	Dallara/Volkswagen	1m33.363ss	0.832s	31
21	Nikita Mazepin	HitechGP	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.385ss	0.854s	28
22	Ferdinand Habsburg	Fortec Motorsports	Dallara/Mercedes	1m33.631ss	1.100s	33
23	Vasiliy Romanov	Fortec Motorsports	Dallara/Mercedes	1m34.722ss	2.191s	29