PRACTICE: Câmara comfortably quickest in Barcelona for TRIDENT

Rafael Câmara made a bright start to the Barcelona weekend, setting a 1:29.024 to finish up as the quickest driver in Free Practice for TRIDENT.

The Brazilian logged his best effort on his first attempt, and finished the session 0.3s quicker than closest challenger Alessandro Giusti of MP Motorsport. Home hero Mari Boya was third for Campos Racing.

Teams looked to maximise their track time with relevant running in the only session ahead of Qualifying, so opted to wait before getting serious running underway.

With his first lap of the day, Câmara set the time to beat with a 1:29.024 in the TRIDENT, while Giusti slotted into second, 0.322s down on the Championship leader.

Boya made a strong start to his home weekend as he went third-quickest in his Campos, while Martinius Stenshorne and Tim Tramnitz rounded out the top five after the first round of laps.

TRIDENT remained out on track while everyone returned to the pitlane with just over 10 minutes to go, and Charlie Wurz improved to go fourth on a 1:29.615.

With tyre life at a premium in hot conditions, there were very few improvements after the first set of laps in the closing minutes.

Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, Callum Voisin, Santiago Ramos and Nikola Tsolov completed the top 10 after their earlier efforts.

The FIA Formula 3 Qualifying session is set to get underway at 15:00 local time around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.