Mꦯarcus Armstrong set the fastest time of the day as Formula 2 testing came to an end in Bahrain.

Like on day two, teams focused on qualifying simulations in the morning session 𝄹before turning their attention to the race simulations in the afte𓆏rnoon.

The DAMS driver took to t🌞he top of the timesheets just over 30 minutes into the morning session, setting a 1m42.173s.

Armstrong’🐈s lap time still remained 0.4s shy of Christian Lund💃gaard’s impressive benchmark from yesterday.

The difference in times from the morning to the afternoon was vast as Ralph Boschung topped the afternoon sess🌳ion with a 1m44.905s, 2.7s off the pace set by Armstrong in the morning.

Liam Lawson was just 0.045s shy of Armstron🅠g in the lead Hite✱ch GP car, just ahead of teammate Juri Vips.

Lawson completed only 13 laps in the morning and a further 2𒈔3 in the afternoon -꧂ the fewest of any driver on day three.

Guanyu Zhou was the lead Virtuosi Racing a🥂nd within a tenth of Armstrong in fourth, while Lirim Zendඣeli completed the top five for MP Motorsport.

Robert Shwartzm🅠an completed 57 laps across the two sessions on his way to the sixth fastest time of the day ꧟in the Prema.

Boschung was fastest in the afternoon 🎉for Campos but was only seventh in the qualifying simulations.

Richard Verschoor, Oscar Piastri𒊎 and Felipe Druღgovich completed the top ten.

The 2021 F2 season starts at the Bahrain Interna🦂tional Circuit on March 26-28.