Eng takes pole at Brands Hatch

The Austrian took the top spot away from Sebastian Hohenthal in the final 10 minutes, after the Swede had shown his first signs of front running form this season in the early part of the session.

Eng then survived a late onslaught of fastest times as Hohenthal and Andy Soucek also broke into the 1m17.4s, but his earlier effort was just fast enough to clinch pole as the top three were covered by 0.017s.

Henry Surtees set the fourth quickest time, with Mikhail Aleshin fifth and Kazim Vasiliauskas sixth.

Robert Wickens and Julien Jousse, who lie second and third in the standings behind Soucek, will fill row four for Saturday's first race, with Mirko Bortolotti and Milos Pavlovic completing the top 10.

Hohenthal, Bortolotti, Tobias Hegewald and Jack Clarke received warnings during the session for failing to respect the track limits.

Pos  Driver               Time       Gap
 1.  Philipp Eng          1m17.445s
 2.  Andy Soucek          1m17.458s  + 0.013s
 3.  Sebastian Hohenthal  1m17.462s  + 0.017s
 4.  Henry Surtees        1m17.547s  + 0.102s
 5.  Mikhail Aleshin      1m17.660s  + 0.215s
 6.  Kazim Vasiliauskas   1m17.665s  + 0.220s
 7.  Robert Wickens       1m17.723s  + 0.278s
 8.  Julien Jousse        1m17.749s  + 0.304s
 9.  Mirko Bortolotti     1m17.753s  + 0.308s
10.  Milos Pavlovic       1m17.816s  + 0.371s
11.  Carlos Iaconelli     1m17.896s  + 0.451s
12.  Edoardo Piscopo      1m17.931s  + 0.486s
13.  Jolyon Palmer        1m17.936s  + 0.491s
14.  Nicola De Marco      1m18.031s  + 0.586s
15.  Henri Karjalainen    1m18.101s  + 0.656s
16.  Jack Clarke          1m18.396s  + 0.951s
17.  Alex Brundle         1m18.433s  + 0.988s
18.  Tobias Hegewald      1m18.448s  + 1.003s
19.  German Sanchez       1m18.470s  + 1.025s
20.  Armaan Ebrahim       1m18.483s  + 1.038s
21.  Natacha Gachnang     1m18.532s  + 1.087s
22.  Tom Gladdis          1m18.662s  + 1.217s
23.  Jason Moore          1m18.671s  + 1.226s
24.  Jens Hoing           1m19.024s  + 1.579s
25.  Pietro Gandolfi      1m20.132s  + 2.687s