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Barcelona F2: Ilott stretches points lead with pole
Ferrari junior Callum Ilott strengthened his position at the head of the Formula 2 drivers' standings with his third pole position of the 2020 season at Barcelona.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Aug 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
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llott was second-fastest in the opening runs of the 45-minute session, falling just 0.025s shy of the early benchmark set by Prema's Robert Shwartzman.
The British driver was shuffled down to third by UNI-Virtuosi teammate Guanyu Zhou, who took advantage of an empty track after the opening runs to go second-fastest with a time just 0.014s shy of Shwartzman.
Ilott decided to begin his second run early, and managed to pull a huge gap on the rest of the field with a lap of 1m28.381s to go nearly half a second clear.
Shwartzman couldn't respond on his own second run and fell 0.183s short of a maiden pole, albeit securing his first F2 front-row start.
Zhou looked as if he would threaten his teammate's provisional pole as he again had the track almost to himself for his final flyer, going fastest of all in the first sector, but the Renault junior lost ground later in the lap and came up 0.220s shy of Ilott in third.
Joining Zhou on the second row for Saturday's opening race will be MP Motorsport driver Felipe Drugovich, while Mick Schumacher (Prema) and Yuki Tsunoda (Carlin) will make up row three.
Jack Aitken was seventh for Campos, ahead of practice pacesetter Dan Ticktum (DAMS), Nikita Mazepin (Hitech) and Louis Deletraz (Charouz).
ART Grand Prix's difficult weekend continued with Christian Lundgaard and Marcus Armstong qualifying down in 14th and 19th respectively.
It means Lundgaard, who goes into the Barcelona weekend second in the standings, now faces a deficit of 23 points to Ilott.
Session results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 4 Callum Ilott
UNI-Virtuosi 1'28.381 2 21
Robert Shwartzman
Prema Powerteam 1'28.564 0.183 3 3
Guanyu Zhou
UNI-Virtuosi 1'28.601 0.220 4 15
Felipe Drugovich
MP Motorsport 1'28.767 0.386 5 20
Mick Schumacher
Prema Powerteam 1'28.889 0.508 6 7
Yuki Tsunoda
Carlin 1'28.903 0.522 7 9
Jack Aitken
Campos Racing 1'28.979 0.598 8 2
Dan Ticktum
DAMS 1'28.986 0.605 9 24
Nikita Mazepin
HitechGP 1'29.033 0.652 10 11
Louis Deletraz
Charouz Racing System 1'29.199 0.818 11 16
Artem Markelov
HWA AG 1'29.297 0.916 12 8
Jehan Daruvala
Carlin 1'29.308 0.927 13 1
Sean Gelael
DAMS 1'29.316 0.935 14 6
Christian Lundgaard
ART Grand Prix 1'29.333 0.952 15 22
Roy Nissany
Trident 1'29.469 1.088 16 23
Marino Sato
Trident 1'29.493 1.112 17 12
Pedro Piquet
Charouz Racing System 1'29.524 1.143 18 14
Nobuharu Matsushita
MP Motorsport 1'29.641 1.260 19 5
Marcus Armstrong
ART Grand Prix 1'29.686 1.305 20 25
Luca Ghiotto
HitechGP 1'29.690 1.309 21 17
Giuliano Alesi
HWA AG 1'29.748 1.367 22 10
Guilherme Samaia
Campos Racing 1'30.093 1.712 View full results
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