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Home Z - Archive seriesFormula Renault Eurocup Rowland fights back with race two pole at Hungaroring

Rowland fights back with race two pole at Hungaroring

by Peter Allen
Oliver Rowland

Photo: Renault Sport/DPPI

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 points leader Oliver Rowland bounced back from his difficult race one to claim pole position for race two at the Hungaroring as title rival Pierre Gasly managed only eighth.

Rowland narrowly defeated Oscar Tunjo by just 0.005 seconds to set the best time in the second group and with it claim first place on the grid for the afternoon’s race.

The Briton lost the championship lead to Gasly on Saturday when he finished eighth after contact with Racing Steps Foundation stable-mate Jake Dennis, while Gasly won the race.

Rowland’s time of 1m42.452s bettered the 1m42.609s managed by Nyck de Vries who set the pace in the first group to run. The Dutchman had come out on top of a close fight with Egor Orudzhev, Esteban Ocon and Gasly, with the quartet separated by mere 0.043 seconds.

After scoring his first Eurocup podium in a year in race one, de Vries will now start alongside Rowland on the front row of the grid.

Tunjo and Orudzhev will share row two with Ignazio D’Agosto in fifth ahead of Ocon. Ed Jones will head row four ahead of Gasly with the top ten completed by Andrea Pizzitola and Luca Ghiotto.

Update: Tunjo and Orudzhev were two of several drivers found guilty of exceeding track limits in qualifying and had their best laps deleted as a result. Tunjo remains second in his group and therefore third on the grid but Orudzhev drops to fourth in his group behind Ocon and Gasly, meaning he falls to eighth on the grid with Ocon and Gasly promoted to fourth and sixth respectively.

Provisional race two grid
Pos Driver Team
1 Oliver Rowland Manor MP Motorsport
2 Nyck de Vries Koiranen GP
3 Oscar Tunjo Josef Kaufmann Racing
4 Esteban Ocon ART Junior Team
5 Ignazio D?Agosto KTR
6 Pierre Gasly Tech 1 Racing
7 Ed Jones Fortec Motorsports
8 Egor Orudzhev Tech 1 Racing
9 Andrea Pizzitola ART Junior Team
10 Luca Ghiotto Prema Powerteam
11 Jake Dennis Fortec Motorsports
12 Steijn Schothorst Josef Kaufmann Racing
13 William Vermont ARTA Engineering
14 Matthieu Vaxiviere Tech 1 Racing
15 Bruno Bonifacio Prema Powerteam
16 Gustav Malja Josef Kaufmann Racing
17 Alexander Albon KTR
18 Aurelien Panis Prema Powerteam
19 Benjamin Bailly RC Formula
20 Mikko Pakari Fortec Motorsports
21 Yu Kanamaru KTR
22 Kevin Jorg Jenzer Motorsport
23 Victor Franzoni Koiranen GP
24 Levin Amweg Jenzer Motorsport
25 Ryan Tveter Fortec Motorsports
26 Guilherme Silva Koiranen GP
27 Marcos Siebert Jenzer Motorsport
28 Simon Gachet ARTA Engineering
29 Roman Mavlanov RC Formula
30 Gregor Ramsay Manor MP Motorsport
31 Leo Roussel ARTA Engineering
32 Alejandro Abogado Interwetten.com Racing
33 Francisco Mora Interwetten.com Racing