AS IT HAPPENED: Follow the action from Spielberg Day 1 in-season testing

🏁 DAY 1 IS COMPLETE 🏁

Stromsted ends the afternoon fastest of all for TRIDENT but Ugochukwu's time from this morning was the quickest overall.

Here is your top 10 from this afternoon's session:

1 - Stromsted - 1:20.451 2 - Slater - 1:20.499 3 - Lacorte - 1:20.932 4 - Sharp - 1:20.947 5 - De Palo - 1:21.019 6 - Taponen - 1:21.041 7 - Giusti - 1:21.093 8 - Ugochukwu - 1:21.142 9 - Colnaghi - 1:21.321 10 - Nakamura - 1:21.326

Less than 30 minutes to go

And there are a few improvements to report. Nicola Lacorte has gone P3 for DAMS Lucas Oil and Sharp has moved up to P4 for PREMA

TRIDENT 1-2-3

Stromsted goes P1 with a 1:20.451, 0.3s quicker than teammate Slater, with de Palo in P3

Long running the focus now

Benavides puts AIX up to second place 0.049s behind Nakamura but race running is the priority for the majority at the moment

Hitech take over

Jin Nakamura goes quickest of all with a 1:21.326 and teammate Woohyun Shin slots into P2, with Fionn McLaughlin fourth behind Kato

Kato still fastest so far

The Japanese driver bettered his earlier effort to bring the time to beat down to a 1:21.407 ahead of teammate Gladysz

🟢 GREEN FLAG 🟢

Back to green in Spielberg

🔴 RED FLAG 🔴

Noah Stromsted has stopped on track in his TRIDENT

ART wasting no time

Taito Kato is top of the times and leading an ART 1-2-3 with a 1:21.707

🟢 GREEN AGAIN 🟢

We are live for the second half of Day 1 here in Spielberg

AFTERNOON SESSION COMING UP ⏱️

We will be underway again soon with more on-track action

🏁 AM SESSION DONE 🏁

Ugochukwu ends up fastest ahead of Tuukka Taponen, who improved late on to go ahead of Slater in P3

1 - Ugochukwu - 1:20.368 2 - Taponen - 1:20.441 3 - Slater - 1:20.585 4 - Badoer - 1:20.675 5 - Benavides - 1:20.749 6 - Sharp - 1:20.755 7 - Yamakoshi - 1:20.789 8 - Clerot - 1:20.902 9 - Stromsted - 1:20.928 10 - Nakamura - 1:20.975

UGOCHUKWU GOES P1

Campos Racing's Ugo Ugochukwu brings the benchmark time down to a 1:20.368, 0.217s clear of rival Slater in P2

BENAVIDES LEADS ONCE MORE

With just over 20 minutes to go of the morning session, Benavides tops the times for AIX on a 1:20.749

🔴 RED FLAG 🔴

Jose Garfias has gone off the circuit at the final corner

SHARP TAKES OVER

PREMA's Louis Sharp goes quickest now on a 1:20.755

SLATER HITS THE FRONT

It's TRIDENT's Freddie Slater that now leads the pack on a 1:21.697

🟢 GREEN AGAIN 🟢

Back to it in Spielberg

🔴 RED FLAG 🔴

We have a Red Flag with just over an hour and a half of the morning to go.

ART Grand Prix driver Kanato Lee has had a spin at Turn 7 and become stuck in the gravel trap

🚨 TIMES ARE COMING IN 🚨

PREMA Racing hit the front with James Wharton setting a 1:30.918 to lead both his teammates in second and third.

There's plenty more green and purple sesctors and it's now AIX Racing's Brad Benavides that leads the way with a 1:21.870

NO TIMES JUST YET

Teams are working through their programmes and that begins with basic checks and installation laps

🟢 GREEN LIGHT 🟢

We are underway and drivers are heading out onto circuit.

Everyone's back in the pitlane after a few systems checks

GOOD MORNING FROM RED BULL RING!

We are raring to get going and sure you are too. It's day one of two here in Spielberg of in-season testing for the F3 teams and drivers, all of whom are gearing up to get out on track this morning.