With nothing separating Felipe Cesar and Brock Kidd in the championship standings, the same was almost true on the track as well, as the two locked out the front row, split by just 8 thousandths of a second. As ever, qualifying was an important event but its importance was exaggerated here, around the tight streets of Monaco. As such, there was plenty of laps completed and plenty of angry drivers due to traffic. Amongst it all, initially, it was Maserati leading the way, with Cesar ahead of Ryota Yoshida, who is still looking for his first podium of the year.
Kidd and the two Jaguars slotted behind them – Kip Maxwell was a notable absence from the top 6 as he failed to get a good feel with his Downton. The same could be said for Will Taylor and Oleksandr Zozulya, who couldn’t keep up with Kidd and the Maserati cars. It seemed Cesar was on for another pole, but as the session drew to a close, Kidd upped his pace, first displacing Yoshida for the front row before pipping Cesar to pole by the barest of margins on his second last run. Importantly, the extra points for pole means he moves past Cesar into the championship lead on his own. Third was still a good return for Yoshida, ahead of Taylor and Zozulya. Jochem van Snelheid was very impressive with 6th, only just behind Zozulya and only just ahead of Aron Einarsson, who slotted into 7th. Maxwell was disappointed in 8th, as was Alexander McLaughlin, only 9th after his front row start in Germany. As ever, he was kept company by Steven Kasami, who rounded out the top 10 for Arrow. Both Highwind cars locked out the 6th row, ironically setting the same lap time. They were ahead of Sebastian Bergkvist, who had a falling down to Earth moment compared to his win just a week ago. Rodrigo Sanchez didn’t repeat his heroics in recent races but still took a decent 14th, with Stuart Harrison nowhere near his teammate in 15th. Elsewhere, Olen Inman’s poor form continued, Luke Stokey was very off-colour, Robert Stefansson struggled in the narrow streets, Steffen Rosenberg tagged the walls constantly in a messy session and Niklas Kehlmann had an absolute shocker, even by his standards, some 1 and a half seconds off the next car.
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