Jousse, Molina fastest in qualifying

The top six from each qualifying group earn the right to pass through into the grid-deciding, 15-minute Super Pole session.

Draco's Marco Barba was a last minute surprise second in the B group. The young Spaniard was able to sneak across the start/finish straight before the chequered flag was shown for a final run, and shot up the order from tenth in group to come within two tenths of a second of Jousse.

The performance bumped Silverstone feature race winner Robert Wickens into seventh and out of the Super Pole.

Wickens' teammate Mikhail Aleshin upheld honour for Carlin Motorsport in third, ahead of Jousse's Tech 1 partner Charles Pic, Salvador Duran and Pons Racing's Aleix Alcaraz.

Having dominated practice on Friday, runaway championship leader Giedo van der Garde left it late to get among the front runners in the A group.

Van der Garde sat precariously close to the sixth place cut-off point for much of the 20 minute session, as Prema's Spanish pairing of Miguel Molina and Alvaro Barba set the tempo.

The A session was red-flagged with four of the 20 minute session remaining, after Pippa Mann's P1 car stopped at the side of the road before turn five, the Ford Kurve.

Van der Garde languished in sixth place at the time of the interruption, but in the two runs he was afforded on the restart moved into second place, splitting Alvaro Barba and Molina.

Comtec's Marco Bonanomi, Hungaroring winner Fabio Carbone and Fortec's Fairuz Fauzy complete the Super Pole entrants from the A group.