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Sergio Sette Camara loses Red Bull Ring Formula 2 front row start

Sergio Sette Camara has lost his front row grid spot for the Formula 2 feature race at the Red Bull Ring after his car failed post-qualifying scrutineering checks

The Brazilian driver had qualified second behind Prema Racing's championship leader Charles Leclerc - who scored his fifth F2 pole of the season - but his MP Motorsport car was found to have less than the required one litre of fuel left in its tank and was therefore unable to provide the minimum fuel sample required.

Sette Camara therefore loses his second place on the grid for Saturday's feature race, a result that had been his best qualifying performance of the 2017 season.

The 19-year-old ended this afternoon's 30-minute qualifying session in the gravel at the exit of Turn 8 following an off on his last in-lap.

He explained that he had felt his engine cut as he ran onto the pit straight at the end of his final flying lap.

"I did the first lap and could see that I was on pole provisionally but I knew I could improve a lot, [and] in sector three especially," he said.

"I started my push [lap] and I did purple, green [sectors], then unfortunately on the exit of the last corner the engine cut a bit and I lost a lot of time to the finish line."

The disqualification mean Sette Camara will start the feature race from the back of the grid and elevates Antonio Fuoco into second spot alongside his Prema team-mate, and fellow Ferrari Formula 1 junior driver, Leclerc.

ART Grand Prix's Alexander Albon - who is racing this weekend in Austria despite having a broken right collarbone - will now start the feature race from third on the grid ahead of DAMS driver Oliver Rowland, who sits second in the drivers' championship standings.

REVISED STARTING GRID:

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Charles Leclerc Prema Racing 1m13.396s -
2 Antonio Fuoco Prema Racing 1m13.776s 0.380s
3 Alexander Albon ART Grand Prix 1m13.888s 0.492s
4 Oliver Rowland DAMS 1m13.903s 0.507s
5 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1m13.922s 0.526s
6 Nyck de Vries Rapax 1m14.034s 0.638s
7 Luca Ghiotto RUSSIAN TIME 1m14.180s 0.784s
8 Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1m14.193s 0.797s
9 Norman Nato Pertamina Arden 1m14.203s 0.807s
10 Ralph Boschung Campos Racing 1m14.363s 0.967s
11 Louis Deletraz Racing Engineering 1m14.377s 0.981s
12 Jordan King MP Motorsport 1m14.384s 0.988s
13 Sergio Canamasas Rapax 1m14.489s 1.093s
14 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 1m14.534s 1.138s
15 Sean Gelael Pertamina Arden 1m14.555s 1.159s
16 Raffaele Marciello Trident 1m14.643s 1.247s
17 Robert Visoiu Campos Racing 1m14.653s 1.257s
18 Nabil Jeffri Trident 1m14.672s 1.276s
19 Gustav Malja Racing Engineering 1m15.121s 1.725s
20 Sergio Sette Camara MP Motorsport - -

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