Hungary GP3: Renault junior Jack Aitken takes pole as ART dominate

The 30-minute session was brought to an early end when Arjun Maini stopped his Jenzer Motorsport run car on the pit straight, which confirmed Aitken's pole, as Nirei Fukuzumi completed the top three.

The ART drivers dominated the top of the time sheets after the initial laps had been completed and as the session approached half distance, all four were covered by just under 0.2 seconds, with Anthoine Hubert leading the way.

But in the final five minutes Aitken lit up the timing screens in the first two sectors to put in a best lap of 1m31.754s.

Russell and Fukuzumi would end up with the fastest times in the second and third sectors, but they wound up 0.182s and 0.255s adrift respectively.

Dorian Boccolacci finished fourth to prevent an ART one-two-three-four, with Hubert ending up in fifth position for the first race of the weekend at the Hungaroring.

Silverstone sprint race winner Giuliano Alesi qualified sixth for Trident, ahead of Niko Kari, Kevin Jorg and Alessio Lorandi.

DAMS' Tatiana Calderon rounded out the top 10, setting her final lap shortly after appearing to be blocked by her new team-mate Matthieu Vaxiviere - making a one-off appearance for the French squad after Santino Ferrucci switched to Formula 2 squad Trident - going through the 90-degree right of Turn 12.

Maini, who had pulled over onto the grass at the exit of the tight Turn 1 bend before getting going again shortly before finally stopping on the main straight, ended up in 13th place.

His stricken car brought out the red flags with just under two minutes remaining on the clock and the session was not restarted.

Vaxiviere, the 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 runner-up, brought up the rear of the field.

QUALIFYING RESULTS:

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Jack Aitken	ART Grand Prix	1m31.754s	-
2	George Russell	ART Grand Prix	1m31.936s	0.182s
3	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1m32.009s	0.255s
4	Dorian Boccolacci	Trident	1m32.307s	0.553s
5	Anthoine Hubert	ART Grand Prix	1m32.308s	0.554s
6	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1m32.435s	0.681s
7	Niko Kari	Arden International	1m32.438s	0.684s
8	Kevin Jorg	Trident	1m32.647s	0.893s
9	Alessio Lorandi	Jenzer Motorsport	1m32.701s	0.947s
10	Tatiana Calderon	DAMS	1m32.738s	0.984s
11	Ryan Tveter	Trident	1m32.795s	1.041s
12	Steijn Schothorst	Arden International	1m32.800s	1.046s
13	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	1m32.880s	1.126s
14	Marcos Siebert	Campos Racing	1m32.956s	1.202s
15	Raoul Hyman	Campos Racing	1m33.090s	1.336s
16	Julien Falchero	Campos Racing	1m33.269s	1.515s
17	Bruno Baptista	DAMS	1m33.274s	1.520s
18	Leonardo Pulcini	Arden International	1m33.427s	1.673s
19	Matthieu Vaxiviere	DAMS	1m33.615s	1.861s