Marcus Armstrong se༺t the fastest time of the day as Formula 2 testing came to an end i🍸n Bahrain.

Like on day two, teams focused on qualifying simulati✨ons in the morning session before turning their attention to the race simulations in the afternoon.

The DAMS driver took to the top of the timesheets just♔ over 30 minutes into the morning session, ♛setting a 1m42.173s.

Armstrong’s lap time still remained 0.4s shy of Chr𒉰istian Lundgaard’s impres🔥sive benchmark from yesterday.

The difference in times from the morning to the afternoon was vast as Ralph Boschung topped the afternoon session with a 1m44𝓀.905s, 2.7s off the pace set by Armstrong in the morning.

Liam Lawson was just 0.045s shy of Armstrong in the🔯 lead Hitech GP car, just ahead of teammate Juri Vi🍨ps.

Lawson completed only 13 laps in the mo♉rning and a further 23 in the afternoon - t♕he fewest of any driver on day three.

🌟Guanyu Zhou was the lead Virtuosi Racing and within a tenth of Armstrong in fourth, while Lirim Zendeli completed the top five for MP Motorsport.

Robert Shwartzman completed 57 laps across th🦂e two sessions 🎶on his way to the sixth fastest time of the day in the Prema.

Boschung was fastest in the afওternoon for Campos but was only seventh in the qualifying simulations.

Richard Verschoo꧃r, Oscar Piastri and Felipe Dಌrugovich completed the top ten.

The 2021 F2 season starts ღat the Bahrain 🃏International Circuit on March 26-28.