Enrique Ruiz has extended his record for consecutive pole positions to five, having qualified in the top spot for the Spanish V-Prix. Once again, he just shaded team mate Adrien Simon in the fifth front row lockout for Mathershaw Porsche of the season, with Nathaniel Powers lining up third for the fourth time in five races. Q1Q1 saw Arrow top a session for the first time in their history, with Yakumi Takahashi lapping just nine thousandths of a second quicker than Marcus Thunder to ensure the team made the grid for the fourth time in five races. Thunder's Lucas team mate Carson Davenport managed to reverse his fortunes from last time out and was within a tenth of the top time to also make the grid, while with fourth fastest, Finn Schnyder will feature in a race for the first time this season. The Swiss driver beat out his team mate Dmytro Kovalenko by just 0.035 of a second. Behind the Ukrainian, Lewis Ellington was only two tenths slower than his team mate but ended up sixth overall and failing to qualify, but it was a disaster down at Meteor. After missing out with Felix Beyer in France after a technical issue sidelined the Dutchman in Q1, this time both cars got a crack, but neither could make the cut. Giani Ledesma got the closest with a time just over quarter of a second off Takahashi, but with Beyer nearly a second down, the Meteor team will not feature on the grid at all for the first time in FV history. See below for full Q1 classification: Q2With the threat of rain looming large, drivers queued at the end of the pit lane for the session to go green, all eager to get a banker lap time in. As expected, this caused a bit of chaos out on circuit with some blocked laps, but after a handful of attempts for each driver, a generic order shook out. Ruiz immediately went to the top of the times, with Powers separating him from team mate Simon, while Will Hoskins joined the Frenchman on the second row; Felix Perez and Klaas van Snelheid filling the third row as the now usual top six took their positions. Simon improved on his second run however, but it wasn't quite enough, ending the session just over half a tenth shy of Ruiz. Powers was pushed back to third and joined by Perez - who jumped his team mate by nearly two tenths for a second row start - with van Snelheid making a small error on his final lap, consigning him to sixth behind Hoskins. Behind, Jean Mattson put in a sublime performance for Ingram in seventh ahead of the now ever-present Johan Halvosen, with Elroy Wagner ninth and James Vasquez capping a brilliant day for Ingram to make it two cars inside the top ten. Just behind though, was arguably - once again - the story of qualifying. Having failed to make a single race so far this season, Finn Schnyder put in a sublime final lap to jump his AMR to eleventh on the grid; the Swiss racer grinning from ear to ear as he jumped out of the car at the end of the session. Tumo Kinnumen couldn't quite find his practice form but still lines up a solid thirteenth, while Lucas had their best team performance of the season so far; Carson Davenport in fifteenth and Marcus Thunder seventeenth, the duo sandwiching a once again disappointed Allar Kangur. If the Estonian was disappointed though, both Ocelot and Westwood were distraught. Both teams had dismal sessions; with eighteenth and 23rd for the Japanese outfit, and a row eleven lockout for the returning British team, both left bewildered after far better pace in recent races. Nick Addison equalled his best position to date in nineteenth with another solid run in the Franklin ahead of Nikolai Milkovich, who once again was some seven places down on his team mate, albeit only two tenths slower. Fastest man in Q1 - Yakumi Takahashi - could only managed 24th, but even that was better than Thierry Xylander, who ended the session slowest and some two tenths off the next slowest car of Kiara Thunder; the Belgian complaining that his glasses kept fogging up. See below for full Q2 classification and grid for the race:
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