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Baguette clinches pole on home soil

Bertrand Baguette delighted his home crowd by setting the fastest time in the Formula Renault 3.5 superpole session at Spa-Francorchamps, earning him pole position for Sunday's feature race

P1 Motorsport's James Walker finished just 0.02s adrift of the Belgian, having earlier headed the A qualifying group. Miguel Molina recovered his composure after a wild display in his qualifying group to post the third fastest time for Ultimate Motorsport.

B group pacesetter Adrian Valles was fourth for Epsilon Euskadi, ahead of Charles Pic, while Walker's P1 team-mate Daniil Move completed the top six.

This afternoon's reverse grid race will have an all Spanish front-row with Baguette's Draco team-mate Marco Barba lining-up at the head of the field, courtesy of his eighth place in superpole, ahead of championship leader Marcos Martinez.

Last year's Carlin British F3 trio of Oliver Turvey, Brendon Hartley and Jaime Alguersuari all missed out on the top eight, despite making the 12-car superpole session, as did RC Motorsport's Pasquale di Sabatino.

Pos Driver                    Team            Time          Gap
 1. Bertrand Baguette         Draco           2m02.862s
 2. James Walker              P1              2m02.888s  +0.026
 3. Miguel Molina             Ultimate        2m03.029s  +0.167
 4. Adrian Valles             Epsilon         2m03.330s  +0.468
 5. Charles Pic               Tech 1          2m03.499s  +0.637
 6. Daniil Move               P1              2m03.522s  +0.660
 7. Marcos Martinez           Pons            2m03.698s  +0.836
 8. Marco Barba               Draco           2m03.699s  +0.837
 9. Oliver Turvey             Carlin          2m03.740s  +0.878
10. Brendon Hartley           Tech 1          2m03.780s  +0.918
11. Jaime Alguersuari         Carlin          2m03.848s  +0.986
12. Pasquale di Sabatino      RC              2m04.419s  +1.557

13. Adrian Zaugg              Interwetten
14. Federico Leo              Pons
15. Chris van der Drift       Epsilon
16. Fairuz Fauzy              Fortec
17. Greg Mansell              Ultimate
18. Frankie Provenzano        Prema
19. Anton Nebylitskiy         Comtec
20. Tobias Hegewald           Interwetten
21. Alexandre Marsoin         Comtec
22. Sten Pentus               Fortec
23. Julian Leal               Prema

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