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Fortec driver Jehan Daruvala?beat Koiranen’s Jack Aitken by 0.003s to claim pole position for the first Formula Renault Alps race at Misano.
For Force India junior Daruvala, who dovetails guest appearances in Alps with a full-time NEC campaign for his first year in single-seaters, this is a career-first pole in cars.
Having topped practice earlier today, Daruvala took provisional pole off Aitken with two minutes and thirty seconds to go.
Aitken, who also dropped behind teammate and points leader Jake Hughes, rallied to respond and improved after the chequered flag, but came up 0.003s short of denying the Indian for pole.
Hughes took third, ahead of Russians Matevos Isaakyan and Vasily Romanov, with title fight outsiders Thiago Vivacqua and Stefan Riener in sixth and seventh.
Alexey Korneev qualified eighth on his FR2.0 debut, leading Alessandro Perullo and Danyil Pronenko.
Qualifying results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | Jehan Daruvala | Fortec Motorsport | 1:33.045 | 5 | |
| 2 | Jack Aitken | Koiranen GP | 1:33.048 | 0.003 | 6 |
| 3 | Jake Hughes | Koiranen GP | 1:33.229 | 0.184 | 5 |
| 4 | Matevos Isaakyan | JD Motorsport | 1:33.339 | 0.294 | 8 |
| 5 | Vasily Romanov | Cram Motorsport | 1:33.357 | 0.312 | 6 |
| 6 | Thiago Vivacqua | JD Motorsport | 1:33.482 | 0.437 | 6 |
| 7 | Stefan Riener | Koiranen GP | 1:33.656 | 0.611 | 6 |
| 8 | Alexey Korneev | JD Motorsport | 1:33.839 | 0.794 | 6 |
| 9 | Alessandro Perullo | Technorace | 1:33.908 | 0.863 | 7 |
| 10 | Danyil Pronenko | BVM Racing | 1:34.047 | 1.002 | 6 |
| 11 | Daniele Cazzaniga | GSK Grand Prix | 1:34.061 | 1.016 | 7 |
| 12 | TJ Fischer | Cram Motorsport | 1:34.256 | 1.211 | 8 |
| 13 | Philip Hamprecht | Koiranen GP | 1:34.258 | 1.213 | 6 |
| 14 | Matteo Ferrer | Cram Motorsport | 1:34.289 | 1.244 | 6 |
| 15 | Denis Bulatov | GSK Grand Prix | 1:34.435 | 1.390 | 7 |
| 16 | Bruno Baptista | Koiranen GP | 1:34.448 | 1.403 | 7 |
| 17 | James Allen | ARTA Engineering | 1:34.551 | 1.506 | 6 |
| 18 | Nerses Isaakyan | Koiranen GP | 1:34.579 | 1.534 | 7 |
| 19 | Andrea Baiguera | Brixia Horse Power | 1:34.890 | 1.845 | 7 |
| 20 | Julien Falchero | GSK Grand Prix | 1:35.279 | 2.234 | 8 |