Norman Nato was back on top on the final day of GP2 Series pre-season testing at Jerez as Racing Engineering completed a clean sweep of the week.
His quickest day three time was a 1m24.518s in the morning, which was eight hundredths faster than Arthur Pic and a tenth faster than Nobuharu Matsushita.
Alex Lynn and Nato’s team-mate Jordan King both had spells on top early on, before ending up fifth and ninth.
With Nato having been quickest on the opening day as well and King fastest on Wednesday, Thursday’s result meant Racing Engineering topped every day of the test.
In the afternoon Pic was fastest on a 1m25.583s from Rapax team-mate Gustav Malja and Artem Markelov.
The day was affected by a number of red flags, with Oliver Rowland prompting the first when he came to a halt between Turns 8 and 9.
Raffaele Marciello caused two of the stoppages, with spins for Nabil Jeffri and Philo Paz Armand plus a mechanical problem for Matsushita also interrupting proceedings.
Thursday’s running concluded GP2 testing, with the season-opener taking place at Barcelona in mid-May.
MORNING TIMES:
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m24.518s | – | 31 |
| 2 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m24.592s | 0.074s | 23 |
| 3 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m24.617s | 0.099s | 28 |
| 4 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m24.652s | 0.134s | 42 |
| 5 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m24.677s | 0.159s | 24 |
| 6 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m24.682s | 0.164s | 32 |
| 7 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m24.688s | 0.170s | 37 |
| 8 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m24.689s | 0.171s | 19 |
| 9 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m24.747s | 0.229s | 24 |
| 10 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m24.937s | 0.419s | 28 |
| 11 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m24.948s | 0.430s | 30 |
| 12 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m25.072s | 0.554s | 21 |
| 13 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m25.120s | 0.602s | 22 |
| 14 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m25.134s | 0.616s | 16 |
| 15 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m25.318s | 0.800s | 14 |
| 16 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m25.339s | 0.821s | 34 |
| 17 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m25.404s | 0.886s | 28 |
| 18 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m25.698s | 1.180s | 22 |
| 19 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m25.819s | 1.301s | 29 |
| 20 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m26.053s | 1.535s | 30 |
| 21 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m26.074s | 1.556s | 27 |
AFTERNOON TIMES:
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1m25.583s | – | 42 |
| 2 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1m25.820s | 0.237s | 38 |
| 3 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m26.140s | 0.557s | 39 |
| 4 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 1m26.435s | 0.852s | 8 |
| 5 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m26.629s | 1.046s | 48 |
| 6 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1m27.235s | 1.652s | 38 |
| 7 | Mitch Evans | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m27.410s | 1.827s | 44 |
| 8 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1m28.620s | 3.037s | 44 |
| 9 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1m28.761s | 3.178s | 37 |
| 10 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1m28.857s | 3.274s | 33 |
| 11 | Sean Gelael | Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing | 1m29.988s | 4.405s | 52 |
| 12 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1m30.115s | 4.532s | 34 |
| 13 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1m30.227s | 4.644s | 55 |
| 14 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m30.459s | 4.876s | 46 |
| 15 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1m30.570s | 4.987s | 32 |
| 16 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1m30.580s | 4.997s | 50 |
| 17 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1m30.626s | 5.043s | 48 |
| 18 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m30.716s | 5.133s | 51 |
| 19 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1m30.840s | 5.257s | 33 |
| 20 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 1m30.854s | 5.271s | 42 |
| 21 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1m31.096s | 5.513s | 49 |
