Mortara takes pole at Zandvoort

The championship leader finished the session 0.2 seconds clear of his team-mate and title pursuer Marco Wittmann, who got stronger as qualifying progressed to jump onto the front row.

Valtteri Bottas, who won the F3 Masters at this track earlier in the year, was in the battle for pole but had to settle for third.

Just behind him, Laurens Vanthoor made sure all three Signature cars are on the first two rows of the grid by taking fourth.

Alexander Sims was next up in the second ART entry, but the British driver brought out a red flag with a crash in the closing seconds of the session.

The top six was completed by Prema Powerteam's Nicolas Marroc, who enjoyed his best qualifying performance of the season, just ahead of Roberto Merhi and Daniel Juncadella.

Pos Driver                   Team        Car   Time       Gap   Laps
 1. Edoardo Mortara          Signature   D/V   1m31.281s          15
 2. Marco Wittmann           Signature   D/V   1m31.515s  +0.234  15
 3. Valtteri Bottas          ART         D/M   1m31.541s  +0.260  15
 4. Laurens Vanthoor         Signature   D/V   1m31.738s  +0.457  14
 5. Alexander Sims           ART         D/M   1m31.836s  +0.555  15
 6. Nicolas Marroc           Prema       D/M   1m32.117s  +0.836  16
 7. Roberto Merhi            Mucke       D/M   1m32.271s  +0.990  14
 8. Dani Juncadella          Prema       D/M   1m32.346s  +1.065  15
 9. Antonio Felix da Costa   Motopark    D/V   1m32.442s  +1.161  15
10. Carlos Munoz             Mucke       D/M   1m32.675s  +1.394  15
11. Jim Pla                  ART         D/M   1m33.118s  +1.837  15
12. Christopher Zanella      Motopark    D/V   1m33.132s  +1.851  14
13. Matias Laine             Motopark    D/V   1m33.277s  +1.996  13
14. Mika Maki                Motopark    D/V   1m33.325s  +2.044   5