Alex Dunne takes pole for Friday’s feature race, while teammate Martinius Stenshorne takes pole for Saturday’s feature race.

Qualifying 1

Dunne dominated the first session, setting his lap time with 12 minutes left on the clock. The session remained fairly uninterrupted, with a few brief yellow flags thrown.

Oliver Goethe was the first driver to set a flying lap but quickly dropped down the order. Noel León went one second faster than Goethe in the first sector alone.

First place was held by many drivers, but they were quickly replaced by the driver behind. Dunne goes into provisional pole position with a 1:55.3, with 12 minutes still left on the clock.

It seemed that traffic was the biggest problem around the streets of Baku.

Some drivers struggled to improve in the first sector. Championship leader Nikola Tsolov goes over one second slower.

The drivers that did improve in the first sector, did not improve in the second sector.

Setting their fastest laps of qualifying, but none of them got close to Dunne’s impressive lap.

With four minutes left, the drivers all set off their third flying lap of the session. A yellow flag was briefly thrown as Gabriele Minì and Dunne went straight on at turn 1, but it did not harm anybody’s flying laps.

Improvements were made, but the noticeable one was Rafael Camara, who managed to get himself into fifth place, with a tow from his teammate.

The sprint race will be the reverse of this top 10, whilst the feature race will be as they qualified.

Rodin’s Stenshorne joins his teammate on the front row, whilst Leon takes third, followed by Kush Maini in fourth. On the third row of the grid, Rafael Camara takes the fifth place grid spot whilst Prema’s Mari Boya takes sixth. In seventh is Sebastian Montoya, eighth is Dino Beganovic and in ninth is Trident’s Laurens Van Hoepen. Championship leader Nikola Tsolov just stays in the top 10, starting the feature race in tenth.

The sprint race, top 10 reversed, will begin at 05:15 UK time on Friday morning, with the feature race beginning at 11:15 UK time.

Qualifying 2

Emerson Fittipaldi starts the session and goes straight for a flying lap and sets a benchmark of 1:56.960.

His time is quickly replaced by many drivers; Leòn takes provisional pole, but moments later, Camara puts in an amazing lap to take it back from him.

With 10 minutes left on the clock, a second flying lap began, but a yellow flag was briefly shown due to Camara going wide into the first corner.

Drivers were improving all across the board, but no one was getting close to the top couple of places.

Boya caught attention in the dying moments, during his flying laps as he went fastest in the first sector.

During his lap, Maini goes into P2, but Boya crosses the line and takes it from him. The Rodin drivers weren’t finished yet. Dunne took provisional pole, looking for a double pole. However, his teammate Stenshorne took first place, giving Rodin a double one-two in both feature races.

Third place was taken by Camara, and fourth place was Prema’s Boya. In fifth was Maini, sixth was Leòn and seventh was Van Hoepen. Eighth place was championship leader Tsolov, ninth place was Tasanapol Inthrphuvasak and rounding out the top 10 was Montoya.

This qualifying session has set the grid for the feature race on Saturday, which starts at 08:00.

This weekend is full of action and not to be missed.

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