Klaas van Snelheid has taken his third pole position of the season, ending Enrique Ruiz's run of three consecutive top spot starts. Tumo Kinnumen also beat his Franklin team mate - for the first time this season - to join van Snelheid on the front row, while Championship leader Nathaniel Powers crashed late on, confining him to seventh on the grid. Q1For the second consecutive race, every team managed to get a car on the grid at Indianapolis, with Andromeda book-ending the times following technical issues for Rodolfo de la Fuente. Will Hoskins topped the session by just 0.015 from Nikolai Milkovich, but de la Fuente suffered persistent electronics gremlins and failed to set a time, despite several attempts before being forced to return to the garage again. Cheema also suffered split fortunes, as Diego Campos - racing for Cheema for the first time in a proposed three race stint - failed to qualify, struggling to the second slowest time, ahead only of Finn Schnyder, whom he crashed into at turn one after just ten minutes, compounding a miserable weekend for the Swiss driver after he managed just fifteen minutes of running in practice yesterday. Campos missed his braking point for turn one and hit the back of Schnyder, destroying the AMR's rear end, but miraculously only lost his own front wing, therefore being able to continue. Puccio Giodano was third fastest for Ocelot ahead of the Lucas duo - who have two cars on the grid for only the second time this season - with Carson Davenport - on loan for three races from Cheema - nearly a tenth quicker than the teams usual driver Arden Hutchinson. Behind them, just half a tenth decided the final spot in qualifying, and it went the way of Dmytro Kovalenko, who finally ended his run of failing to qualifying which started in Japan. That meant Hunter Ryan missed out for the first time this season, though the Australian was at a loss to explain why, claiming the car felt "really good." See below for full Q1 classification: Q2Q2 was less dramatic than Q1, but started with an immediate problem for Ocelot as Puccio Giodano's car developed a hydraulics leak, resulting in him failing to set a time. Dmytro Kovalenko was the first driver on track, desperate to get some running in at only his second Q2 session of the year, setting an initial benchmark of 1:07.382, that was immediately smashed by Thierry Xylander, by just a tenth under two seconds. More and more drivers took to the track with impressively few blocking scenario's, and as has become the norm of late Enrique Ruiz topped the times after the first runs, with Felix Beyer a stunning second for Holmqvist ahead of Nathaniel Powers. The second runs saw drama however, as with just ten minutes to go - and on for a time that would have beaten Ruiz, Championship leader Powers crashed on the banking, and brought out the red flags. The British driver had a twitch of oversteer as he came onto the main straight, but the car gripped as he corrected it and flung him into the outside wall, causing heavy damage to the Downton. The ensuing red flag period lasted twenty minutes as the mess was cleared, and left the drivers with just a handful of laps with which to improve their grid positions. Oleksandr Zozulya was the first to make a significant jump, moving from a lacklustre fifteenth to second, demoting Beyer, but behind him his former FV2 rival Klaas van Snelheid was flying. The Dutchman took half a tenth off of Ruiz in every sector to take the top spot by 0.168, and become the first man to dip under the 64-second barrier. He wasn't the only one however, as with the final lap of the session Tumo Kinnumen squeezed between him and team mate Ruiz with a lap just a shade over a tenth slower than van Snelheid, securing his first front row start of the season and beating Ruiz for the first time too. Following his practice topping time yesterday, Adrien Simon struggled and failed to improve on his final run, ending the session tenth behind Mario Juan Lopez, who gave the new Meteor management reason to cheer with ninth fastest, despite having to start from the back of the grid because the team were one of three along with Lucas and Andromeda that missed the strategy deadline. Sebastian Bergkvist was just outside the top ten in the second Holmqvist while North Star's disappointing demise seemingly continued with Johan Halvosen only managing fourteenth and Gabriele Garcia nineteenth, behind Cheema's Nikolai Milkovich who performed sublimely with eighteenth fastest. Will Hoskins split the Phoenix cars in sixteenth, Carson Davenport put his Lucas twentieth ahead of both Lopez cars, the Swiss team sandwiching James Vasquez's Ingram, the Colombian scratching his head at the lack of pace, and Dmytro Kovalenko ensured he wasn't the slowest runner, beating Arden Hutchinson in the second Lucas by a tenth and a half. See below for full Q2 classification and grid with tyre choices:
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