Hulkenberg on pole at Barcelona
Nico Hulkenberg will start Saturday's F3 Euro Series race at Barcelona from pole position after he was never headed during Friday's qualifying session
The German driver moved to the top of the timesheets early in the session, and he opened out a significant gap on the rest of the field with a series of fast laps.
While the ASM racer was one of the few drivers who failed to improve on his second set of tyres, his earlier lap was good enough for him to eventually take pole by just 0.083 seconds from teammate Kamui Kobayashi.
ASM cars had occupied the top four places at the halfway stage of the session, but their dominance was upset by Yelmer Buurman and Jean-Karl Vernay, who got themselves onto the second row.
Buurman will have to start from the back of the grid though, as the stewards found that he had overtaken after the red flags had come out during the session.
Championship leader Romain Grosjean was fifth fastest ahead of Tom Dillman in the final ASM car, but Grosjean will start 15th due to an engine change that he had before qualifying.
Sebastien Buemi would have been hoping to capitalise on Grosjean's penalty to make up ground in the championship, but the Swiss driver will have a lot of work to do as he could only qualify 11th fastest, so he will start ninth due to the penalties for Buurman and Grosjean.
Pos Driver Car Time 1. N.Hulkenberg Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.599 2. Kamui Kobayashi Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.682 + 0.083 3. Jean-Karl Vernay Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.781 + 0.182 4. Romain Grosjean Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.814 + 0.215 5. Tom Dillmann Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.843 + 0.244 6. Edoardo Mortara Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.905 + 0.306 7. Edoardo Piscopo Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.915 + 0.316 8. Cyndie Allemann Dallara-Mercedes 1:06.982 + 0.383 9. Franck Mailleux Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.094 + 0.495 10. Sebastien Buemi Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.112 + 0.513 11. R.van der Zande Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.128 + 0.529 12. Maximilian Gotz Dallara-Volkswagen 1:07.225 + 0.626 13. James Jakes Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.251 + 0.652 14. H.Schlegelmilch Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.253 + 0.654 15. Basil Shaaban Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.270 + 0.671 16. Tim Sandtler Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.285 + 0.686 17. Filip Salaquarda Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.367 + 0.768 18. Daniel Clos Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.383 + 0.784 19. Yann Clairay Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.419 + 0.820 20. Michael Patrizi Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.536 + 0.937 21. Sergei Afanasiev Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.562 + 0.963 22. J.Summerton Dallara-Volkswagen 1:07.562 + 0.963 23. Marco Holzer Dallara-Volkswagen 1:07.834 + 1.235 24. Euan Hankey Dallara-Mercedes 1:07.943 + 1.344 25. Yelmer Buurman Dallara-Mercedes
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