Stoneman takes maiden F2 pole

He had set the pace in the final practice session earlier today and continued that form into qualifying, ultimately finishing three tenths clear of his nearest rival.

But far from being dominated, it was a session where times tumbled throughhout with the top spot changing several times.

Mihai Marinescu, Will Bratt, Sergei Afanasiev and Armaan Ebrahim each had a turn at the top before Stoneman unleashed a 1m32.8s lap early on his second set of tyres. He improved that to a 32.5s two laps later and that time stood untouched in the last five minutes as his rivals squabbled behind.

Jolyon Palmer and Jack Clarke finished second and third, and Bratt jumped back up to fourth with the final quick lap of the session.

They pushed Johan Jokinen and Nicola de Marco down to row three, after both had sprung from nowhere to snatch second, one after another, just moments earlier.

Philipp Eng and Armaan Ebrahim will share the fourth row for tomorrow's first race. Afanasiev and Marinescu ended up 10th and 12th on the grid, despite holding the top spot earlier in the session.

Kazim Vasiliauskas did not appear in the session following a big accident in the day's earlier practice session.

*Will Bratt's initial fastest laptime was disallowed because he did not cross the line in time to start the lap at the end of the session, so he drops from fourth to seventh on the grid.

Pos Driver                       Time          Gap
 1. Dean Stoneman                1m32.559s        
 2. Jolyon Palmer                1m32.836s  +0.277
 3. Jack Clarke                  1m32.853s  +0.294
 4. Johan Jokinen                1m32.939s  +0.380
 5. Nicola De Marco              1m32.957s  +0.398
 6. Philipp Eng                  1m32.995s  +0.436
 7. Will Bratt                   1m33.199s  +0.640      
 8. Armaan Ebrahim               1m33.300s  +0.741      
 9. Kelvin Snoeks                1m33.461s  +0.902      
10. Sergei Afanasiev             1m33.466s  +0.907      
11. Benjamin Bailly              1m33.481s  +0.922      
12. Mihai Marinescu              1m33.482s  +0.923      
13. Paul Rees                    1m33.703s  +1.144      
14. Ivan Samarin                 1m33.766s  +1.207      
15. Parthiva Sureshwaren         1m34.370s  +1.811      
16. Ricardo Teixeira             1m34.884s  +2.325      
17. Natalia Kowalska             1m35.807s  +3.248      
18. Plamen Kralev                1m36.051s  +3.492      
19. Benjamin Lariche             1m37.327s  +4.768      
20. Ajith Kumar                  1m37.802s  +4.965