It was Tamas Pal Kiss, running for Zele Racing, to top the timesheets in the first day of preseason testing for the 2014 Auto GP at Valencia.

The Hungarian also set a new series record for the Coloni-prepared car at the venue, setting a personal fastest laptime of 1'21"480. He ended up being two seconds per lap quicker than the previous mark, set by Adrian Quaife-Hobbs in 2012 (1'23"480). Kiss was followed by Kimiya Sato (Euronova Racing) and Kevin Giovesi. The Italian showed an impressive pace and proved the value of the collaboration between Puma 3 M-Sport and Ivone Pinton's Eurotech.

Sam Dejonghe and Virtuosi UK went fourth fastest. The Belgian quickly adapted to an highly-powerful car (550hp) like the Auto GP one and showed great pace. Andrea Roda was off to a good start too. He ended up in third place during the AM session behind Super Nova International's Michela Cerruti and Sato.The 2013 championship-winning team's roster also featured Markus Pommer and Gianmarco Raimondo. "I felt really well-suited with this car - said the German - The team worked well and I'm confident we will be able to set some good marks tomorrow. Today I had a small issue with the pedals during my fastest lap, but we showed some great potential”.Canadian racer Raimondo went on-track in the closing part of the day for a shakedown to prepare for Wednesday's run. A last-minute entry was Salvatore Deplano, on the MLR71 by Euronova car. Yoshitaka Kuroda will also be running today, replacing Sato.The running times for today will be again from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 13:30 to 16:30.

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