Mortara takes pole at Valencia

The Macau Grand Prix winner finished the session with a relatively comfortable margin of 0.2 seconds over F3 rookie Daniel Juncadella, who kept up his streak of front row qualifying performances this season with second place.

The second row of the grid is locked out by ART Grand Prix's title hopefuls, with Valtteri Bottas two tenths of a second clear of his team-mate Alexander Sims as both look to make up ground in the standings.

Mortara's closest rival in the standings at the moment, Signature team-mate Marco Wittmann, could only manage fifth place behind the red and white cars.

Rookie Carlos Munoz completed the top six as the lead driver for Mucke Motorsport, which had a difficult session with Hockenheim race two winner Roberto Merhi only able to qualify eighth.

The Mucke cars were split by the third Signature entry of Laurens Vanthoor, while Antonio Felix da Costa and series debutant Kevin Magnussen completed the top 10 for Motopark.

Pos  Driver                  Team       Car  Time       Gap
 1.  Edoardo Mortara         Signature  D/V  1m28.583s
 2.  Daniel Juncadella       Prema      D/M  1m28.787s  + 0.204s
 3.  Valtteri Bottas         ART        D/M  1m28.827s  + 0.244s
 4.  Alexander Sims          ART        D/M  1m29.032s  + 0.449s
 5.  Marco Wittmann          Signature  D/V  1m29.117s  + 0.534s
 6.  Carlos Munoz            Mucke      D/M  1m29.141s  + 0.558s
 7.  Laurens Vanthoor        Signature  D/V  1m29.178s  + 0.595s
 8.  Roberto Merhi           Mucke      D/M  1m29.319s  + 0.736s
 9.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Motopark   D/V  1m29.351s  + 0.768s
10.  Kevin Magnussen         Motopark   D/V  1m29.508s  + 0.925s
11.  Nicolas Marroc          Prema      D/M  1m29.645s  + 1.062s
12.  Matias Laine            Motopark   D/V  1m29.662s  + 1.079s
13.  Jim Pla                 ART        D/M  1m29.675s  + 1.092s