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McLaren-Honda protege Lando Norris proved the master of wet conditions in the official test day at Monza ahead of this weekend's Formula 3 European Championship round.

Norris, the 2016 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner, took his Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen to the fastest time in both sessions.

The track was at its grippiest during the first half of the afternoon session, and every driver set his quickest time during this period.

Norris's best was 0.221 seconds quicker than Honda-backed Tadasuke Makino in the lead Hitech Grand Prix Dallara-Mercedes.

Makino was also second fastest to Norris in the morning session, the Japanese F3 Championship graduate finishing 0.391s behind the reigning Formula Renault Eurocup champion.

Prema Powerteam duo Maximilian Gunther and Callum Ilott ended the day third and fourth respectively, Gunther taking the same position in the morning session, in which Ilott was fifth.

Jake Dennis was fifth for Carlin, ahead of Hitech GP's Ralf Aron, while the top 10 was completed by Jehan Daruvala, Pedro Piquet, Ferdinand Habsburg and Guan Yu Zhou.

Championship leader Joel Eriksson, who as at Silverstone had never driven at Monza before, was 16th but did not do many laps when the track was at its least slippery - the Swede was fourth in the morning session.

The afternoon session was interrupted by two red flags, one for a crash by David Beckmann and another to recover the car of Nikita Mazepin.

MONZA TEST TIMES:



Pos Driver Team Gap Laps 1 Lando Norris Carlin 1m58.828s 52 2 Tadasuke Makino Hitech Grand Prix 0.221s 44 3 Maximilian Guenther Prema Powerteam 0.643s 49 4 Callum Ilott Prema Powerteam 0.664s 40 5 Jake Dennis Carlin 0.725s 50 6 Ralf Aron Hitech Grand Prix 0.776s 54 7 Jehan Daruvala Carlin 0.893s 53 8 Pedro Piquet Van Amersfoort Racing 0.898s 37 9 Ferdinand Habsburg Carlin 1.074s 36 10 Guanyu Zhou Prema Powerteam 1.141s 31 11 Joey Mawson Van Amersfoort Racing 1.244s 41 12 Jake Hughes Hitech Grand Prix 1.269s 31 13 Nikita Mazepin Hitech Grand Prix 1.504s 26 14 David Beckmann Van Amersfoort Racing 1.520s 32 15 Marino Sato Motopark 1.782s 43 16 Joel Eriksson Motopark 1.784s 32 17 Mick Schumacher Prema Powerteam 2.196s 30 18 Harrison Newey Van Amersfoort Racing 2.338s 35 19 Keyvan Andres Motopark 3.583s 40