Enrique Ruiz has taken pole position for the third race in a row to tie the record for consecutive pole positions, once again pipping the Downton duo of Nathaniel Powers and Klaas van Snelheid. It's the fifth race in a row in which the top three positions have been locked out by Ruiz, Powers and van Snelheid, and the third race in a row they've been split by less than a tenth of a second. Q1Once again the teams in Q1 remained the same, and for only the second time this season every team got at least one car onto the grid. Arden Hutchinson picked up where he left off in Jerez by initially lapping quickest, but stopped with 10 minutes to go and brought out the red flag after he hit the wall on the exit of turn four. Finn Schnyder, Will Hoskins and Carson Davenport toppled the Austrian once the session resumed, but Hutchinson's time was enough to get him through to Q2 in fourth, just over three tenths off Schnyder's fastest time. The surprise came behind him however, as Rodolfo de la Fuente - fresh for his maiden points finish last time out in Spain - failed to qualify for only the second time this year, beaten by just over three hundredths of a second by the Ocelot pair. Behind the Spaniard, Nikolai Milkovich missed the cut for the first time in five races, Marcus Thunder made it six DNQ's in a row on his birthday, and Dmytro Kovalenko once again propped up the times. Full Q1 Classification can be seen below: Q2The midfield runners took to the track first in Q2, with Sebastian Bergkvist topping the times initially ahead of the Meteor pair, Johan Halvosen and Will Hoskins. As the fastest runners headed out it was Felix Perez who jumped to the top first, but he was quickly dispatched by Tumo Kinnumen, the Finn desperate to turn his season around having been so far comprehensively beaten by Ruiz. The DS Mathershaw drivers of Adrien Simon and Allar Kangur struggled on their initial runs, with Mario Juan Lopez and Bergkvist both demoting them, while the Downton pair flew in formation to take the top two spots, van Snelheid beating Powers by half a tenth of a second. Further back in the times, Carson Davenport set a great time to beat Will Hoskins, while both Phoenix drivers moved ahead of Brazilian countrymen Gabriele Garcia and Ruiz, the Franklin driver having made an error on his first run. As the second runs began, Viktor Ostberg made an error at turn two, spinning off and nosing the wall, and resigned him to slowest of the runners, while up front Powers moved back of van Snelheid with both improving, the pair now some three tenths clear of Kinnumen. Adrien Simon moved back ahead of Lopez and Bergkvist to fifth but Kangur failed to improve, languishing in ninth. Oleksandr Zozulya slotted into sixth ahead of Lopez, but behind it became apparent Ruiz had put his mistake behind him. A tenth up on Powers in the first sector, he was two and a half down in the second, but a great exit from the hairpin and a fantastic run through the final chicane saw Ruiz jump to the top of the times, beating the defending Champion by 0.019 of a second. Jules Simon came close to knocking Kangur out of the top ten but fell four hundredths short, ahead of the surprise podium pair from Spain of Felix Beyer and Johan Halvosen. The Ingram's of Jean Mattson and James Vasquez did just one run each after the team missed the strategy deadline, while Elroy Wagner beat the two Ocelot's, Finn Schnyder and Arden Hutchinson. See below for full Q2 classification and grid with tyre choices:
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