```Yas Marina (Bahrain), 3 March 2020: Yesterday, was my first day but I am getting more and more comfortable in the care. I am very pleased to be linked up with the team. I am very happy. It is one of the best moments of my career to have this opportunity to be associated with such a good Formula 1 team,'' said Jehan Daruvala on Monday, the second day of testing.

On the final day on Tuesday, rookies may have ruled days one and two of pre-season testing, but it was experience which took the plaudits on the final day, as Luca Ghiotto claimed the fastest time overall. The Hitech Grand Prix racer beat out Felipe Drugovich and Jack Aitken for top spot, ahead of the new season.  

Jehan logs 71 laps on final day of testing. Photo by FIAF2

Jehan Daruvala picked up from where he left off on the final day, beginning the session at the top of the timesheets, touring around the increasingly warm track at 1:43.428. Giuliano Alesi and Yuki Tsunoda were the men closest to the Indian.

The morning was heavily focused on long-runs and race simulations ahead of the season opener here later this month, with the majority of drivers all posting upwards of 30 laps.

The leaderboard wouldn’t change as the penultimate session came to a close. Daruvala finished on top with the time he set early on in the morning. Alesi and Tsunoda followed behind him in the order, with Artem Markelov and Louis Deletraz completing the top five.

With the sun beginning to set on the Sakhir desert, the drivers fed back onto the circuit for the final session and Robert Shwartzman immediately posted the fastest time of the day, to take an early lead with 1:43.028.

The Russian was pipped by his teammate just moments later, as Mick Schumacher took us below 1m 42s for the first time on Day 3. This sparked a two-way battled between the duo to go fastest, with Shwartzman briefly usurping the German, before Schumacher once again went top.  

2019 race winners Ghiotto and Aitken had shown sparks of quality throughout testing but were yet to truly dominate. At the halfway mark, the duo punched in quick times to take P1 and P2 in the standings, with the Italian setting the fastest time overall in testing.

Rookie Drugovich nipped in-between the two of them to take second fastest, with Schumacher and Nobuharu Matsushita taking fourth and fifth. Nikita Mazepin, Shwartzman, Deletraz, Sean Gelael and Callum Ilott completed the top ten.

The next time we hit the track will be for the opening race of the 2020 campaign here in Bahrain. With two new faces and one returning favourite topping the times across the three days, the season is set to be as competitive and as compelling as ever.

2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship - Pre-season tests, Day 3, morning session

 DRIVERTEAMLAPTIMELAPS1Nikita MazepinHitech Grand Prix1:43.825192Luca GhiottoHitech Grand Prix1:43.830293Artem MarkelovBWT HWA RACELAB1:43.882234Guanyu ZhouUNI-Virtuosi1:43.978315Jack AitkenCampos Racing1:43.986366Giuliano AlesiBWT HWA RACELAB1:44.987327Marino SatoTrident1:45.251378Callum IlottUNI-Virtuosi1:45.578299Felipe DrugovichMP Motorsport1:45.6362910Guilherme SamaiaCampos Racing1:45.8672811Louis DeletrazCharouz Racing System1:46.9973912Mick SchumacherPREMA Racing1:47.2313813Pedro PiquetCharouz Racing System1:47.2424114Nobuharu MatsushitaMP Motorsport1:47.5733715Sean GelaelDAMS1:47.5904316Sergey SirotkinART Grand Prix1:47.6013317Robert ShwartzmanPREMA Racing1:48.0033818Dan TicktumDAMS1:48.0363719Marcus ArmstrongART Grand Prix1:48.8524220Yuki TsunodaCarlin1:48.8574521Jehan DaruvalaCarlin1:48.9384522Roy NissanyTrident1:49.20735

2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship – Pre-season tests, Day 3, afternoon session

 DRIVERTEAMLAPTIMELAPS1Luca GhiottoHitech Grand Prix1:41.252312Felipe DrugovichMP Motorsport1:41.324273Jack AitkenCampos Racing1:41.568304Mick SchumacherPREMA Racing1:41.611315Nobuharu MatsushitaMP Motorsport1:41.612266Nikita MazepinHitech Grand Prix1:41.634297Robert ShwartzmanPREMA Racing1:41.655338Louis DeletrazCharouz Racing System1:41.864189Sean GelaelDAMS1:41.9112710Callum IlottUNI-Virtuosi1:41.9432911Pedro PiquetCharouz Racing System1:42.0972012Dan TicktumDAMS1:42.1402713Guilherme SamaiaCampos Racing1:42.3993614Guanyu ZhouUNI-Virtuosi1:42.4483615Roy NissanyTrident1:42.8782016Marino SatoTrident1:43.9221517Yuki TsunodaCarlin1:44.4963218Jehan DaruvalaCarlin1:44.6533119Sergey SirotkinART Grand Prix1:44.6792320Artem MarkelovBWT HWA RACELAB1:45.5524021Giuliano AlesiBWT HWA RACELAB1:45.6754622Marcus ArmstrongART Grand Prix1:48.5773