Stoneman sets the pace in Abu Dhabi morning test session

The 2013 GP3 race season may be over but the action resumes in Abu Dhabi with three days of post-season testing. This morning’s session ran for two and half hours and it was the impressive rookie Dean Stoneman who stormed to a podium in Sunday’s Race 2 at the Yas Marina Circuit who led the way with a best laptime of 1:56.278. Patric Niederhauser (Jenzer Motorsport) and Dino Zamparelli (MW Arden) were second and third quickest.

There is now a break in proceedings whilst GP2 Series take to the track for the test session, but GP3 will resume for the afternoon test at 15.00 – 17.30 local time.

Day 1 Test – Morning Session

	Driver	Team	Laptime	Laps
1.	Dean Stoneman	Koiranen GP	1:56.278	18
2.	Patric Niederhauser	Jenzer Motorsport	1:56.584	19
3.	Dino Zamparelli	MW Arden	1:56.649	18
4.	Sam Bird	RUSSIAN TIME	1:56.711	16
5.	Kevin Korjus	Status Grand Prix	1:56.837	16
6.	Jan Mardenborough	Carlin	1:56.858	22
7.	Melville McKee	Marussia Manor Racing	1:56.921	25
8.	Alex Fontana	ART Grand Prix	1:56.927	20
9.	Roman de Beer	Trident	1:56.986	27
10.	Emil Bernstorff	Carlin	1:57.067	24
11.	Pierre Gasly	ART Grand Prix	1:57.198	19
12.	Marvin Kirchhofer	MW Arden	1:57.211	20
13.	Oliver Rowland	Marussia Manor Racing	1:57.430	12
14.	Edward Jones	MW Arden	1:57.511	16
15.	Jimmy Eriksson	RUSSIAN TIME	1:57.635	8
16.	Adderly Fong	Koiranen GP	1:57.665	20
17.	Emanuele Zonzini	ART Grand Prix	1:57.670	19
18.	David Fumanelli	Jenzer Motorsport	1:57.881	15
19.	Jordan King	Status Grand Prix	1:57.883	5
20.	Nick Cassidy	Status Grand Prix	1:58.023	19
21.	Nicholas Latifi	Carlin	1:58.349	21
22.	Santiago Urrutia	Koiranen GP	1:58.701	21
23.	Ryan Cullen	Marussia Manor Racing	1:58.771	26
24.	Kevin Joerg	Jenzer Motorsport	1:59.080	26
25.	Ivan Taranov	Trident	1:59.225	27
26.	Juan Branger	Trident	2.02.334	20
27.	Kuba Dalewski	RUSSIAN TIME	2:03.730	6