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Barcelona F2: Albon takes second consecutive pole
Alexander Albon took his second consecutive Formula 2 pole position in Barcelona qualifying, which was red-flagged after a crash from Santino Ferrucci.
David Gruz
Edited: May 11, 2018, 3:52 PM
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Albon's DAMS teammate Nicholas Latifi was the early pace-setter in the session as many top drivers couldn't set a quick time on their first tries.
While George Russell went wide at Turn 1, Sergio Sette Camara's Carlin was left crawling around the track due to a throttle cable issue, and the Brazilian pitted without a representative time.
Sette Camara's problem also compromised the laptimes of others such as his teammate Lando Norris and Albon, but the former jumped up to second next time around anyway.
Nyck de Vries and Albon subsequently lowered the benchmark, the latter taking the lead with a 1m28.500s.
As the majority of the field entered the pits, Ferrucci brought out the red flag as he crashed at Turn 11.
It was the second incident of the day for the Haas junior, as he had also gone off in practice.
When the session was restarted with 17 minutes to go, only DAMS duo Albon and Latifi went out initially as the rest of the field waited for the final stages of qualifying.
Both DAMS drivers improved, with Albon setting a time of 1m28.142s and Latifi moving up to second place.
Albon appeared to be able to go even quicker, as he set a fastest first sector, only to run into traffic and subsequently go into the pits instead.
However, nobody was able to disturb Albon's benchmark time as second-placed De Vries ended up more than two tenths off the pace.
The Prema driver beat Luca Ghiotto by 0.031s with ART duo Russell and Jack Aitken completing the top five.
Only those four drivers were able to edge Latifi out as the Canadian settled for sixth, just ahead of Russian Time's Tadasuke Makino.
Norris ended up eighth, with MP duo Ralph Boschung and Roberto Merhi completing the top 10.
With mechanics working on his car throughout the entire session, Sette Camara managed to rejoin the track just in time and take 14th with a last-minute effort.
Artem Markelov had a disappointing qualifying, taking 19th and only beating Ferrucci.
Qualifying results
ClaDriverTeamTimeGap 1 
Alexander Albon 
DAMS 1'28.142 2 
Nyck de Vries 
Prema Powerteam 1'28.369 0.227 3 Luca Ghiotto 
Campos Racing 1'28.400 0.258 4 
George Russell ART Grand Prix 1'28.524 0.382 5 Jack Aitken ART Grand Prix 1'28.579 0.437 6 
Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1'28.605 0.463 7 
Tadasuke Makino 
RUSSIAN TIME 1'28.620 0.478 8 Lando Norris Carlin 1'28.923 0.781 9 
Ralph Boschung MP Motorsport 1'28.970 0.828 10 Roberto Merhi MP Motorsport 1'29.081 0.939 11 Antonio Fuoco 
Charouz Racing System 1'29.130 0.988 12 Louis Deletraz Charouz Racing System 1'29.136 0.994 13 
Maximilian Gunther Arden International 1'29.143 1.001 14 
Sergio Sette Camara Carlin 1'29.256 1.114 15 
Roy Nissany Campos Racing 1'29.284 1.142 16 
Sean Gelael Prema Powerteam 1'29.307 1.165 17 Nirei Fukuzumi Arden International 1'29.376 1.234 18 
Arjun Maini Trident 1'29.407 1.265 19 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 1'29.585 1.443 20 
Santino Ferrucci Trident 1'30.440 2.298
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