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Felix Rosenqvist and Will Buller earn first F3 Euro Series poles in Austria

Felix Rosenqvist and Will Buller took their maiden F3 Euro Series pole positions after a dramatic end to a tense qualifying session at Spielberg

Swede Rosenqvist had held the top spot with a third of the session gone, but was sent down the field as a succession of drivers, including Carlos Sainz Jr, Daniel Juncadella and Raffaele Marciello took their turns to go fastest.

With just two minutes to go though, the Swede produced a lap in 1m26.457s in his Mercedes-engined Mucke Motorsport Dallara to take pole for Sunday's third race.

However, he was unable to lap anywhere near as quickly during the rest of the session, and with the grid for Saturday's race being based on each driver's second best lap, he will start down in seventh.

Carlin driver Buller, fifth fastest overall, produced a second-best lap within seven hundredths of his quickest lap, which was enough for pole for race one in his Volkswagen-powered Dallara.

Joining him on the front row on Saturday morning will be Prema Powerteam driver Marciello, while Sainz and Pascal Wehrlein in the second Carlin and Mucke cars fill row two. Jazeman Jaafar (Carlin) and Rosenqvist are behind them.

After Rosenqvist in race three will be Prema's championship leader Juncadella, who leapt up into pole contention after spending the first 25 minutes outside the top 10 with a slow puncture, Wehrlein, Marciello, Buller and Sainz.

Tom Blomqvist had his best Euro Series qualifying of the year, the ma-con driver ninth and seventh while Sven Muller (Prema) took a pair of eighths.

The only real incidents in the session came early on when Blomqvist's team-mate Emil Bernstorff and URD driver Lucas Wolf each took a trip through the gravel at the Lauda Kurve.

Race one grid:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                Time       Gap
 1.  Will Buller          Carlin Dallara-VW       1m26.721s
 2.  Raffaelle Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc      1m26.738s  + 0.017s
 3.  Carlos Sainz Jr      Carlin Dallara-VW       1m26.821s  + 0.100s
 4.  Pascal Wehrlein      Mucke Dallara-Merc      1m26.875s  + 0.154s
 5.  Daniel Juncadella    Prema Dallara-Merc      1m26.919s  + 0.198s
 6.  Jazeman Jaafar       Carlin Dallara-VW       1m27.046s  + 0.325s
 7.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc      1m27.118s  + 0.397s
 8.  Sven Muller          Prema Dallara-Merc      1m27.124s  + 0.403s
 9.  Tom Blomqvist        ma-con Dallara-VW       1m27.189s  + 0.468s
10.  Emil Bernstorff      ma-con Dallara-VW       1m27.977s  + 1.256s
11.  Andrea Roda          Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc  1m28.010s  + 1.289s
12.  Michael Lewis        Prema Dallara-Merc      1m28.077s  + 1.356s
13.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc        1m28.154s  + 1.433s
14.  Sandro Zeller        Jo Zeller Dallara-Mer   1m28.171s  + 1.450s
15.  Philip Ellis         GU Dallara-Merc         1m29.114s  + 2.393s
16.  Luis Sa Silva        Angola Dallara-Merc     1m29.183s  + 2.462s

Race three grid:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                Time       Gap
 1.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc      1m26.457s
 2.  Daniel Juncadella    Prema Dallara-Merc      1m26.495s  + 0.038s
 3.  Pascal Wehrlein      Mucke Dallara-Merc      1m26.650s  + 0.193s
 4.  Raffaelle Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc      1m26.660s  + 0.203s
 5.  Will Buller          Carlin Dallara-VW       1m26.675s  + 0.218s
 6.  Carlos Sainz Jr      Carlin Dallara-VW       1m26.679s  + 0.222s
 7.  Tom Blomqvist        ma-con Dallara-VW       1m26.767s  + 0.310s
 8.  Sven Muller          Prema Dallara-Merc      1m26.906s  + 0.449s
 9.  Jazeman Jaafar       Carlin Dallara-VW       1m26.989s  + 0.532s
10.  Emil Bernstorff      ma-con Dallara-VW       1m27.497s  + 1.040s
11.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc        1m27.585s  + 1.128s
12.  Andrea Roda          Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc  1m27.722s  + 1.265s
13.  Michael Lewis        Prema Dallara-Merc      1m27.774s  + 1.317s
14.  Sandro Zeller        Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc  1m28.163s  + 1.706s
15.  Philip Ellis         GU Dallara-Merc         1m28.705s  + 2.248s
16.  Luis Sa Silva        Angola Dallara-Merc     1m28.789s  + 2.332s

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