Second Spa pole for dominant Turvey

Turvey and the rest of his Carlin Motorsport teammates sat in the pits for the first 10 minutes of the session, but when they hit the track Brendon Hartley, Sam Abay, and Turvey each held provisional pole.

But Turvey has topped every session so far and increased his gap over the rest to nearly half a second.

A yellow flag, caused by John Martin crashing in the Rivage section just after Turvey set his pole time, prevented anyone else from improving.

"I feel a lot happier about my performance today," he said. "Yesterday I got pole but I didn't get the perfect lap together. Today, I did two laps good enough for pole.

"We're on pole by quite a big margin, which is fantastic around such a difficult circuit. It's a real driver's track and I just love it out there. Hopefully we can convert the poles into wins."

Marcus Ericsson put his Fortec Motorsport car alongside Turvey on the front row, with Abay and Hartley filling row two for Carlin.

Abay was delighted with his best qualifying performance of the season after earning two second-row spots for this weekend's races.

"Spa is very high speed, very fast and flowing, and I think that suits my driving style quite well," he said. "It was a bit unfortunate that there was a yellow flag at the end because I could have gone a little quicker, although it wouldn't have been enough to catch Turvey, he's very quick around here."

Nick Tandy was fifth in JTR's Mygale with championship leaders Sergio Perez and Jaime Alguersuari sixth and seventh. Double R pair Atte Mustonen and John Martin qualified eighth and ninth, with guest driver Daniel Campos-Hull tenth.

Just two tenths of a second covered the top three cars in the National Class as Jay Bridger edged out Steven Guerrero and Stefan Wilson.

Pos Driver               Team         Car    Time         Gap
 1. Oliver Turvey        Carlin       D/M    2:14.101
 2. Marcus Ericsson      Fortec       D/M    2:14.562  +0.461
 3. Sam Abay             Carlin       D/M    2:14.599  +0.498
 4. Brendon Hartley      Carlin       D/M    2:14.690  +0.589
 5. Nick Tandy           JTR          M/M    2:14.932  +0.831
 6. Sergio Perez         T-Sport      D/H    2:14.955  +0.854
 7. Jaime Alguersuari    Carlin       D/M    2:14.955  +0.854
 8. Atte Mustonen        Double R     D/M    2:15.125  +1.024
 9. John Martin          Double R     D/M    2:15.293  +1.192
10. Daniel Campos-Hull   HBR          D/M    2:15.307  +1.206
11. Walter Grubmuller    Hitech       D/M    2:15.355  +1.254
12. Henry Arundel        Double R     D/M    2:15.737  +1.636
13. Michael Devaney      Ultimate     M/M    2:15.750  +1.649
14. Sebastian Hohenthal  Fortec       D/M    2:15.920  +1.819
15. Phillip Major        Fortec       D/M    2:15.961  +1.860
16. Max Chilton          Hitech       D/M    2:16.168  +2.067
17. Alastair Jackson     Ultimate     M/M    2:16.369  +2.268
18. Oliver Oakes         Eurotek      D/M    2:16.426  +2.325
19. Jay Bridger          Fluid (N)    D/H    2:16.555  +2.454
20. Steven Guerrero      T-Sport (N)  D/H    2:16.646  +2.545
21. Stefan Wilson        Fluid (N)    D/H    2:16.713  +2.612
22. Ricardo Teixeira     Ultimate     M/M    2:17.316  +3.215
23. Salman Al-Khalifa    T-Sport (N)  D/H    2:17.447  +3.346
24. Basil Shaaban        HBR          D/M    2:17.765  +3.664
25. Hywel Lloyd          CF (N)       D/H    2:17.772  +3.671
26. Kristjan Einar       Carlin (N)   D/H    2:18.696  +4.595
27. Craig Reiff          Nexa (N)     D/H    2:20.036  +5.935