ENSTONE-BASED Renault are in good spirits after completing pre-season testing in Barcelona.

Nico Hulkenberg set the sixth fastest lap, with Jolyon Palmer eighth.

German driver Hulkenberg is upbeat ahead of the first race of the season in Australia on March 26.

He said: “It was a productive final morning of the test for me with a lot of work completed.

“We answered some of the questions we had from the previous days and we made some more progress with the car, which is all you can want.”

l SEAN Walkinshaw Racing continued their preparation for the GT4 European Series Northern Cup.

Rookie Charlie Fagg impressed at Silverstone despite it being his first experience of dry-weather running at the wheel of the Chipping Norton-based team’s Nissan GT4.