Red Bull 🌞junior Jak Crawford set the pace on da🍸y two of Formula 3 testing at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit.

Crawford w꧑as in action for reigni♋ng champions Prema and looked well at home with the Italian team. 

The 16-year-old endured an inconsistent maiden season in the s✨eries, finishing 13th in the drivers’ championship with one podium to his name.

Crawford took to the top of the timesheets 𓆉with a 1m✱21.368s in the morning session.

In the afternoon, Franco Colapinto was quickest for MP Motorspor🦂t, just under 0.4s shy of Crawford’s time fꦓrom this morning.

Morning

Crawford took to the top of the timesheets in the second hour of running in Valencia, toppling Gregoire Saucy, who continues to impress for ART G♌rand Prix.

Saucy was just 0.079s down on Crawford as he completed 55 laps ♕of the Spanish circuit in the morning session.

Caio Collet led the way at one point for MP Motorsport, ultimately ending the session in fourth, just over a tenth off theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ pace.

The top 10 in the morning was: Crawford, ⛎Saucy, Stanek, Collet,ꦗ Doohan, Bearman, Maloney, Vidales, Frederick and Ushijima.

Afternoon

Colapinto headed the timesheets in the afternoon session, with times on the whole slower than in the mᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚorning due to teams switching their focus to longer runs or simply not having fresh tyres to fit.

ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤✃⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚThe MP Motorsport driver set 51 laps in the afternoon session, ending the day 0.030s ahead of Saucy.

Collet was third ahead of Merce🤡des F1 junior Paul Aro💃n.

Aron was in action for Prema af♋ter finishing third with the Italian outfit in the Formula Regional European Champio𒀰nship. 

The top 10 in the afternoon was: Colapinto,🥂 Saucy, Collet, Aron, Stanek, Frederick, Maloney🍷, Crawford, Vidales and Bearman.

Testing in Valencia for F3 concludes tomorrow.