Maloney took to the top in the afternoon session at the Bahrain Interna🍰tionꦡal Circuit with a 1m47.614s.

Theও Barbadian rookie showed impressive pace during the first day🐷 of running in Bahrain ahead of the season opener at the same venue in just over two weeks.

Fellow rookie William Alat💞alo finished second for Jenzer, just over a tenth shy of Maloney’s benchmark time.

Jak Crawford was third for reigning champions Prema with 𓃲a 1m47.799s.

The Red Bull-backed junior will be entering his second season in the series an♛d will be fancying his chances of a strong season.

The second Trident of Roman Stanek and Van Amersfoo🍌rt Racing’s rounded out the top five.

Victor Martins was sixt🌳h for ART Grand 💖Prix, just over 0.3s off the leader’s pace.

Arthur Leclerc, Reece Ushijima, Oliver Bearman and Gregoire Saucy roun🅰ded out the top 10 ꦍon day one in Bahrain.

Leclerc topped the mಞorning session for Prema before finishing ﷺseventh overall in the afternoon.

The afternoon session was relatively sꩵmooth but it was red-flagged with a m♔inute to go after Ushijma and David Vidales came to a halt on track. 

Isack Hadjar was 11th foღr Hitech Grand Prix ahead of K✤aylen Frederick.

Alexander Smolyar returns to the series with MP Motorsport, ending the day in 13th ahead of Fran♉cesco Pizzi of Charouz 🌺and Trident’s Jonny Edgar.

Pepe Marti was the lead Campos in 16th, finishing ahead of Jenzer’s Pa♓trik Pasma, MP’s Kush Maini and Ido Cohen.

Williams☂ F1 academy driver Zak O'Sullivan completed the🌺 top 20.