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Alex Palou bags Saturday pole at a wet Silverstone

by Valentin Khorounzhiy
Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Photo: FOTOSPEEDY

Campos Racing’s Alex Palou prevailed in wet weather conditions at Silvestone to record his second pole position in the Euroformula Open series.

Palou was one tenth quicker than nearest rival Sandy Stuvik as the two proved to be in a league of their own in the first qualifying session of the weekend.

Team West-Tec’s Yarin Stern, who set the pace in Friday practice, was best of the rest in third, almost half a second down on Stuvik.

Palou’s teammate Konstantin Tereshchenko completed row two a further five tenths down, ahead of Yu Kanamaru and another Campos driver Sean Walkinshaw.

Nicolas Pohler narrowly led championship leader Artur Janosz in seventh, with RP duo of Dzhon Simonyan and Andres Saravia rounding out the top ten.

Session results
Pos. Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1 Alex Palou Campos Racing 2:11.000 14
2 Sandy Stuvik RP Motorsport 2:11.096 0.096 15
3 Yarin Stern Team West-Tec 2:11.559 0.559 14
4 Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing 2:12.101 1.101 15
5 Yu Kanamaru EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 2:12.268 1.268 8
6 Sean Walkinshaw Campos Racing 2:12.377 1.377 15
7 Nicolas Pohler Team West-Tec 2:12.565 1.565 14
8 Artur Janosz RP Motorsport 2:12.575 1.575 15
9 Dzhon Simonyan RP Motorsport 2:12.637 1.637 14
10 Andres Saravia RP Motorsport 2:12.715 1.715 15
11 Christopher Hoher BVM Racing 2:13.069 2.069 14
12 Wei Fung Thong Team West-Tec 2:13.347 2.347 14
13 Che One Lim EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 2:13.420 2.420 15
14 Tanart Sathienthirakul Team West-Tec 2:13.451 2.451 13
15 Henrique Baptista DAV Racing 2:14.706 3.706 13
16 Saud Al Faisal RP Motorsport 2:14.792 3.792 14