Pic snatches Silverstone FR3.5 pole

The Frenchman will start Sunday's pit-stop race ahead of James Walker, after edging out the P1 Motorsport driver by 0.047s with just 20 seconds remaining in the session.

Pic's Tech 1 team-mate Brendon Hartley completed an excellent day for the reigning champion team to qualify third ahead of Carlin Motorsport's Oliver Turvey.

"My qualifying group was very difficult," said Pic. "I had a yellow flag on nearly every lap. Then when the red flag came I was left with one lap to do time and my tyres were really not in a new condition."

Hartley was equally happy with third after a troubled start to the season.

"I left it late because I had two laps of traffic," said Hartley. "I think if [Jaime] Alguersuari had spent less time blocking me, perhaps he could have been up here too. This is great for the team, they have been double teams' champion but things haven't gone at all well for us this year."

Hungary reverse-grid winner Fairuz Fauzy will start fifth on Sunday, alongside Walker's P1 Motorsport team-mate Daniil Move.

The joint championship leaders, Bertrand Baguette and Marcos Martinez, will share the front row for this afternoon's reverse-grid race, Baguette's eighth place earning him the 'pole'.

Superpole
Pos Driver                  Team          Time          Gap
 1. Charles Pic             Tech 1        1m33.073s
 2. James Walker            P1            1m33.120s  +0.047
 3. Brendon Hartley         Tech 1        1m33.426s  +0.353
 4. Oliver Turvey           Carlin        1m33.501s  +0.428
 5. Fairuz Fauzy            Fortec        1m33.591s  +0.518
 6. Daniil Move             P1            1m33.732s  +0.659
 7. Marcos Martinez         Pons          1m33.781s  +0.708
 8. Bertrand Baguette       Draco         1m33.920s  +0.847
 9. Jaime Alguersuari       Carlin        1m33.971s  +0.898
10. Adrian Valles           Epsilon       1m33.986s  +0.913
11. Marco Barba             Draco         1m34.107s  +1.034
12. Greg Mansell            Ultimate      1m34.149s  +1.076