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Championship leader Pierre Gasly has boosted his chances of winning the Eurocup 2.0 championship, as he secured pole position for the season finale at Catalunya with rival Oliver Rowland lining up fourth on the grid.
Gasly claimed his fourth pole of the season by pulling out a stunning late lap in the group A qualifying session, narrowly besting the existing benchmark set by Esteban Ocon. Nyck de Vries, yesterday?s race winner, dominated the prior group B session, preventing championship hopeful Rowland from starting on the front row.
Rowland is tasked with overturning an eight-point deficit to Gasly, for whom a second-placed finish in the final race will be enough to secure the title.
Ocon will take third on the grid ahead of the the Brit, with Tech 1?s Egor Orudzhev and ART driver Andrea Pizzitola sharing the third row.
Aurelien Panis will start from seventh, while Jake Dennis qualified in eighth. Colombian Oscar Tunjo and KTR driver Alexander Albon will make it an all-Lotus junior fifth row.
Session results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Group B | Group A |
| 1 | Pierre Gasly | Tech 1 Racing | 1:43.400 | |
| 2 | Nyck de Vries | Koiranen GP | 1:43.603 | |
| 3 | Esteban Ocon | ART Junior Team | 1:43.420 | |
| 4 | Oliver Rowland | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:44.013 | |
| 5 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | 1:43.656 | |
| 6 | Andrea Pizzitola | ART Junior Team | 1:44.039 | |
| 7 | Aurelien Panis | Prema Powerteam | 1:43.770 | |
| 8 | Jake Dennis | Fortec Motorsports | 1:44.087 | |
| 9 | Oscar Tunjo | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:43.803 | |
| 10 | Alexander Albon | KTR | 1:44.180 | |
| 11 | Kevin Jorg | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:43.853 | |
| 12 | Ignazio D’Agosto | KTR | 1:44.241 | |
| 13 | Luca Ghiotto* | Prema Powerteam | 1:43.935 | |
| 14 | Ed Jones | Fortec Motorsports | 1:44.278 | |
| 15 | Gustav Malja | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:43.948 | |
| 16 | Jack Aitken | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:44.309 | |
| 17 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 1:44.043 | |
| 18 | Benjamin Bailly | RC Formula | 1:44.361 | |
| 19 | William Vermont | ARTA Engineering | 1:44.169 | |
| 20 | Steijn Schothorst | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:44.386 | |
| 21 | Mikko Pakari | Fortec Motorsports | 1:44.268 | |
| 22 | Victor Franzoni | Koiranen GP | 1:44.493 | |
| 23 | Gregor Ramsay | Euronova Racing | 1:44.282 | |
| 24 | Guilherme Silva | Koiranen GP | 1:44.899 | |
| 25 | Marcos Siebert | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:44.587 | |
| 26 | Ukyo Sasahara | Euronova Racing | 1:44.966 | |
| 27 | Simon Tirman | ARTA Engineering | 1:44.640 | |
| 28 | Levin Amweg | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:45.203 | |
| 29 | Yu Kanamaru | KTR | 1:44.808 | |
| 30 | Raoul Owens | Mark Burdett Motorsport | 1:45.327 | |
| 31 | Roman Beregech | RC Formula | 1:45.285 | |
| 32 | Leo Roussel | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:45.543 | |
| 33 | Alejandro Abogado | Interwetten.com Racing | 1:46.143 | |
| 34 | John Filippi | RC Formula | 1:47.035 |
* Luca Ghiotto will lose three places on the grid and, therefore, is set to start in P16