Eng takes second pole at Silverstone

The 20-year-old Austrian won on his only other pole in the series, at Brands Hatch last year, and will start from the front in race two on Sunday after pipping Jolyon Palmer by 0.020s.

He did just one flying lap on the scrubbed set of tyres at the start and sat in the pits for most of the half hour, before venturing out towards the end to make the most of the new tyres and three uses of the boost button.

"It was very close, my lap was very good and I boosted very well," said Eng. "I'm happy that I'm on pole because my first qualifying was not that good, I was only fourth."

Palmer, who took the day's first pole with a last-gasp effort, left it late to mount his assault on Eng's benchmark, but fell just short of clinching the top spot again.

Dean Stoneman will start from the head of row two in both races tomorrow after qualifying third again.

Jack Clarke and Johan Jokinen finished up fourth and fifth after both had turns at holding provisional pole before a flurry of improvements in the last five minutes.

Tom Gladdis completes the third row after easily his best qualifying session to date, with Will Bratt, Sergei Afanasiev, Kazim Vasiliauskas and Mihai Marinescu completing the top 10.

Pos Driver                     Time          Gap
 1. Philipp Eng                1m36.992s
 2. Jolyon Palmer              1m37.012s  +0.020
 3. Dean Stoneman              1m37.096s  +0.104
 4. Jack Clarke                1m37.197s  +0.205
 5. Johan Jokinen              1m37.242s  +0.045
 6. Tom Gladdis                1m37.420s  +0.428
 7. Will Bratt                 1m37.439s  +0.447
 8. Sergei Afanasiev           1m37.586s  +0.594
 9. Kazim Vasiliauskas         1m37.774s  +0.782
10. Mihai Marinescu            1m37.889s  +0.897
11. Benjamin Lariche           1m37.910s  +0.918
12. Armaan Ebrahim             1m37.959s  +0.967
13. Nicola de Marco            1m38.137s  +1.145
14. Ricardo Teixeira           1m38.263s  +1.271
15. Benjamin Bailly            1m38.419s  +1.427
16. Ivan Samarin               1m38.538s  +1.546
17. Kelvin Snoeks              1m38.731s  +1.739
18. Natalia Kowalska           1m38.884s  +1.892
19. Paul Rees                  1m38.922s  +1.725
20. Parthiva Sureshwaren       1m39.885s  +2.893
21. Pramen Kralev              1m40.389s  +3.397
22. Ajith Kumar                1m41.596s  +4.604