Facu Regalia concluded  the first collective test of GP3 at Estoril yesterday, the track on which he made his debut at the wheel of the new ART Grand Prix GP3/13.

As on Thursday, the morning was quite rainy butin the afternoon the drivers could test in dry conditions and the morning session times were extensively improved with Regalia 9th fastest with a best lap of 1:28.322.

Our main goal was to work as hard as possible and to get used to the new car, and for sure we were able to do it. I could have finished into top-3 because I was always among the fastest ones in the second session but, with my last set of new tires and improving over half a second, my lap was aborted due to a red-flag, Regalia explained.  "We made important progresses and now its the moment to analyze everything. My teammates and I completed a race simulation and it went really well, with a very good race pace. The car performance was excellent on long runs. For Barcelona both my team and I could draw a good number of conclusions. Now we made some steps forward and know how to keep developing the car in Barcelona. Next test will be a very important one because the season opener is there in May, so were going to give our best to get a good setting there.

Regalia will be back at the wheel of the GP3/13 car next March 12-13 at Circuit de Catalunya.