Nobody could live with the pace of Mucke Motorsport man Rosenqvist.
The 20-year-old Swede hit the front inside five minutes in a time of 1m35.128s, and gradually brought his times down to take pole for Sunday’s final race of the season in 1m34.047s in his Dallara-Mercedes.
Rosenqvist’s superiority over Juncadella was such that his second-fastest lap, which was enough to net him pole for Saturday’s first race, was also quicker than the Spaniard’s best.
Prema Powerteam driver Juncadella qualified one place ahead of his chief title rival, Mucke’s Pascal Wehrlein, for both of the longer 40-minute races this weekend. Juncadella needs only to finish ahead of the German in one of them to secure the title.
Wehrlein, who lies 35 points behind Juncadella with 60 still on the table, lost his hopes of pole late on as he ran wide at the Nord Kurve and dislodged his front wing.
The third driver in realistic title contention, Prema’s Raffaele Marciello, will start the two races from fourth and eighth spots.
Carlin driver Will Buller, who needs to win all three races and hope that Juncadella musters no more than four points all weekend, took ninth and 11th spots.
A number of series interlopers are taking part at Hockenheim. The best of these in qualifying was Fortec’s Alex Lynn, fourth overall (for race three) and eighth on the race one grid.
Gerhard Berger’s nephew Lucas Auer, who is making his Euro Series debut along with the Van Amersfoort squad, was equally impressive. This season’s German F3 runner-up will start sixth in both races.
GP2 driver Felipe Nasr, last year’s British F3 champion, will start both races from 14th spot.
The grid for race two will be set by the race one finishing order, with the top eight drivers reversed.
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/rosenqvist-takes-f3-decider-poles
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