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Jake Hughes will start race one of Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 at Spa-Francorchamps from pole position.
Having topped group B by a tiny margin but unable to beat Ben Barnicoat‘s benchmark from group A – partly due to Danylo Pronenko‘s red flag-causing incident at the Kemmel straight – Hughes was originally set to start from second.
However, a four-place grid penalty for Barnicoat which he received at Aragon for causing a collision with Lasse Sorensen relegates the Racing Steps Foundation-backed driver to fifth on the grid.
As such, Hughes will occupy the first spot on the grid, while Ukyo Sasahara becomes the top driver of group A, starting from the front row.
Jack Aitken will begin behind his teammate Hughes, having been edged out by less than a tenth, with Anthoine Hubert starting alongside him.
Barnicoat drops down to fifth followed by fellow Fortec driver Callan O’Keeffe and the Josef Kaufmann duo of Louis Deletraz and Kevin Jorg.
FR2.0 veteran Ignazio D’Agosto and Matevos?Isaakyan will complete the top ten on the grid.
2014 runner-up and Aragon race winner Dennis Olsen was only eighth fastest in group B and will take up the race from 16th.
Qualifying results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Group A | Group B |
| 1 | Jake Hughes | Koiranen GP | 2:16.747 | |
| 2 | Ukyo Sasahara | ART Junior Team | 2:16.865 | |
| 3 | Jack Aitken | Koiranen GP | 2:16.813 | |
| 4 | Anthoine Hubert | Tech 1 Racing | 2:16.892 | |
| 5 | Ben Barnicoat* | Fortec Motorsport | 2:16.645 | |
| 6 | Callan O’Keeffe | Fortec Motorsport | 2:16.860 | |
| 7 | Louis Deletraz | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 2:16.907 | |
| 8 | Kevin Jorg | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 2:16.865 | |
| 9 | Ignazio D’Agosto | Manor MP | 2:16.931 | |
| 10 | Matevos Isaakyan | JD Motorsport | 2:17.011 | |
| 11 | Darius Oskoui | ART Junior Team | 2:17.174 | |
| 12 | Simon Gachet | Tech 1 Racing | 2:17.236 | |
| 13 | Max Defourny | ART Junior Team | 2:17.235 | |
| 14 | Ferdinand Habsburg | Fortec Motorsport | 2:17.266 | |
| 15 | Dennis Olsen | Manor MP | 2:17.294 | |
| 16 | Hugo de Sadeleer | Tech 1 Racing | 2:17.669 | |
| 17 | Thiago Vivacqua | JD Motorsport | 2:17.331 | |
| 18 | Harrison Scott | AVF | 2:17.768 | |
| 19 | Anton de Pasquale | Koiranen GP | 2:17.412 | |
| 20 | Lasse Sorensen | Manor MP | 2:17.857 | |
| 21 | Josef Zaruba | AVF | 2:17.560 | |
| 22 | Luke Chudleigh | Fortec Motorsport | 2:17.899 | |
| 23 | Charlie Eastwood | AVF | 2:17.612 | |
| 24 | Amaury Richard | ARTA Engineering | 2:17.991 | |
| 25 | Philip Hamprecht | Koiranen GP | 2:18.036 | |
| 26 | Stefan Riener | Koiranen GP | 2:18.051 | |
| 27 | Amaury Bonduel | JD Motorsport | 2:18.194 | |
| 28 | Nikita Mazepin | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 2:18.135 | |
| 29 | Valentin Hasse-Clot | Manor MP | 2:18.231 | |
| 30 | James Allen | ARTA Engineering | 2:18.570 | |
| 31 | Henrique Chaves | AVF | 2:18.644 | |
| 32 | Bruno Baptista | Koiranen GP | 2:18.675 | |
| 33 | Danylo Pronenko | BVM | 2:19.810 | |
| 34 | Martin Kodric** | Fortec Motorsport | 2:17.373 |
*Ben Barnicoat received a four-place grid penalty
**Martin Kodric has been demoted to the back of the grid