Photo: Formula 3.5 V8
Matthieu Vaxiviere set the pace in the morning session on day two of Formula 3.5 V8 testing at Jerez with the new Spirit of Race team.
Series runner-up Vaxiviere set his time of 1m27.331s inside the first hour of running and then sat out most of the remaining two and a half hours.
Wednesday pace-setter Yu Kanamaru finished up second, exactly three tenths down on the Frenchman. His Pons team-mate Matevos Isaakyan was 0.02s back in third.
Jake Hughes was fourth for Strakka ahead of Fortec tester Louis Deletraz. Next were the AVF pairing of GP3 team-mates Marvin Kirchhofer and Alfonso Celis, split by 13 thousandths of a second.
There were two more team-mates even closer behind that, with Arden’s Egor Orudzhev and Jack Aitken separated by a mere 0.001s.
George Russell completed the top 10 having switched from Tech 1 to Strakka in place of Gustav Malja, who replaced Aitken at Fortec.
Morning session results
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | Spirit of Race | 1:27.331 | 23 | |
| 2 | Yu Kanamaru | Pons Racing | 1:27.631 | 0.300 | 40 |
| 3 | Matevos Isaakyan | Pons Racing | 1:27.651 | 0.320 | 29 |
| 4 | Jake Hughes | Strakka Racing | 1:27.768 | 0.437 | 32 |
| 5 | Louis Deletraz | Fortec Motorsports | 1:27.965 | 0.634 | 23 |
| 6 | Marvin Kirchhofer | AVF | 1:28.029 | 0.698 | 43 |
| 7 | Alfonso Celis | AVF | 1:28.042 | 0.711 | 25 |
| 8 | Egor Orudzhev | Arden Motrsport | 1:28.226 | 0.895 | 33 |
| 9 | Jack Aitken | Arden Motrsport | 1:28.227 | 0.896 | 32 |
| 10 | George Russell | Strakka Racing | 1:28.273 | 0.942 | 31 |
| 11 | Kevin Jorg | Lotus | 1:28.516 | 1.185 | 28 |
| 12 | Gustav Malja | Fortec Motorsports | 1:28.517 | 1.186 | 38 |
| 13 | Aurelien Panis | Tech 1 Racing | 1:28.745 | 1.414 | 20 |
| 14 | Jehan Daruvala | Comtec Racing | 1:28.886 | 1.555 | 32 |
| 15 | Vladimir Atoev | Carlin | 1:29.250 | 1.919 | 19 |
| 16 | Nikita Zlobin | Carlin | 1:29.272 | 1.941 | 29 |
| 17 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Comtec Racing | 1:30.767 | 3.436 | 30 |