Cold temperatures and sunny conditions graced the paddock this morning on Day 2 of pre-season testing at Circuit de Catalunya. When the pitlane turned green, Pierre Gasly (right) and Status Grand Prix's Meindert van Buuren were the first to feed onto the track, quickly followed by the rest of the drivers.

The Frenchman set the early pace in a 1:30.823 on Hard Pirelli tyres, but Jordan King bettered the Gasly's laptime by four tenths to go top. Forty minutes into the session, there was a short red flag period caused by Antonio Giovinazzi who stopped on track at the end of the main straight.

At the restart, Raffaele Marciello was the first man to dip under 1m30s. However, Nobuharu Matsushita found some extra pace to clock in a laptime of 1:28.690 which was enough to take P1. With two hours left on the clock, the Japanese's teammate Sergey Sirotkin (lower right) took the top spot on Prime tyres in a 1:27.971. He remained unchallenged until the end of a studious session.

At the chequered flag, the Russian finished ahead of Gasly who edged King out of P2 in the final hour. Norman Nato, Marciello, Mitch Evans, Rene Binder, Marvin Kirchhöfer, Artem Markelov and Luca Ghiotto completed the top ten.

In the afternoon, it was Oliver Rowland who first went out on track and set the early pace in 1:29.922. Soon after, Giovinazzi lapped quickest in a 1:29.187 - 0.8s ahead of the Briton. One hour into the session, the proceedings were halted twice in a row; firstly with Artem Markelov, followed by Sean Gelael who both stopped in the gravel bed at Turn five. Once the session resumed, King put his head down to sit pretty at the top of the timesheet with a laptime of 1:28.779.

In the final hour, the soft Pirelli tyres made an appearance on some cars. Gasly took full advantage of them and went P1 in a blazing laptime of 1:27.703 - +1.076s ahead of King. At the chequered flag, the pair of Gasly and King were followed by Arthur Pic, Giovinazzi, Danïel de Jong, Rowland, Binder, Jimmy Eriksson, Gustav Malja and Ghiotto to complete the top ten.

Morning results

1. Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 1:27.971
2. Pierre Gasly PREMA Racing 1:28.084
3. Jordan King Racing Engineering 1:28.093
4. Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1:28.106
5. Raffaele Marciello Russian Time 1:28.194
6. Mitch Evans Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing 1:28.403
7. Rene Binder Carlin 1:28.591
8. Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin 1:28.862
9. Artem Markelov Russian Time 1:28.871
10. Luca Ghiotto Trident 1:28.873
11. Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1:28.890
12. Danïel de Jong MP Motorsport 1:28.902
13. Sergio Canamasas Status Grand Prix 1:29.103
14. Gustav Malja Rapax 1:29.115
15. Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 1:29.204
16. Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1:29.229
17. Sean Gelael Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing 1:29.353
18. Arthur Pic Rapax 1:29.717
19. Philo Paz Armand Trident 1:30.143
20. Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1:30.223
21. Antonio Giovinazzi PREMA Racing 1:32.023
22. Meindert van Buuren Status Grand Prix 1:32.077
23. Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1:33.952
24. Alex Lynn DAMS 1:34.714

Afternoon results

1. Pierre Gasly PREMA Racing 1:27.703
2. Jordan King Racing Engineering 1:28.779
3. Arthur Pic Rapax 1:28.827
4. Antonio Giovinazzi PREMA Racing 1:29.023
5. Danïel de Jong MP Motorsport 1:29.130
6. Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1:29.198
7. Rene Binder Carlin 1:29.616
8. Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 1:29.632
9. Gustav Malja Rapax 1:29.794
10. Luca Ghiotto Trident 1:29.879
11. Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin 1:29.991
12. Sergio Canamasas Status Grand Prix 1:30.063
13. Alex Lynn DAMS 1:30.574
14. Artem Markelov Russian Time 1:30.732
15. Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1:30.957
16. Philo Paz Armand Trident 1:31.739
17. Meindert van Buuren Status Grand Prix 1:32.700
18. Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 1:32.966
19. Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1:33.471
20. Mitch Evans Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing 1:33.700
21. Raffaele Marciello Russian Time 1:33.969
22. Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1:34.478
23. Sean Gelael Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing 1:34.727
24. Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1:34.948