Newly crowned GP3 champion Mitch Evans showed good pace in his first official testing of a GP2 car during two days at the Barcelona circuit in Spain this week.
The 18-year-old Kiwi quickly adapted to the dramatic increase in power from GP3 to GP2.
"It was a big step up from GP3 but I got the hang of it quickly," Evans said. "The engine has so much more grunt. My first impression was that it was an absolute animal..
"On the first day it seemed the car was more in control of me than I was in control of the car, but I settled in well and I think we were really competitive."
On Tuesday Evans was ninth fastest in the morning session. He quickly set the fastest rookie time in the 27-car line up and improved to be eighth fastest in the afternoon session.