Red Bull Ring GP3: Ferrari's Ilott takes maiden pole

Ilott's ART teammate and championship leader Anthoine Hubert will start in 19th, running wide on his final flying lap and then pulling up at the exit of Turn 6 a lap later.

His stoppage brought out the red flag with under two minutes left on the clock, and the session was not restarted.

Ilott had won the previous race, the Paul Ricard reverse-grid encounter, and followed that up by topping qualifying in Austria.

Like in Formula 2, it was a British 1-2 as fellow ART driver Jake Hughes scored second, qualifying in the top 10 for the first time since his return to the category and missing out on pole by just 0.037s.

Alessio Lorandi showed Trident’s potential by taking third on the grid, 0.067s off pole, ahead of Barcelona polesitter Leonardo Pulcini in his Campos-run car.

The ART of Nikita Mazepin rounded out the top five, having topped the session early on but denied an opportunity to challenge for pole by the red flag.

Pedro Piquet set purple sectors at various points in qualifying but had to settle for sixth in the end, ahead of MP's Dorian Boccolacci.

Ryan Tveter, the practice pacesetter, took eighth, ahead of Gabriel Aubry (Arden) and fellow Trident driver Giuliano Alesi.

New MP Motorsport driver Devlin DeFrancesco, replacing Christian Lundgaard, will start last but was only 0.9s off Ilott's pace.

Session results

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap
1	1	Callum Ilott	ART Grand Prix	15	1'19.209
2	4	Jake Hughes	ART Grand Prix	15	1'19.246	0.037
3	8	Alessio Lorandi	Trident	16	1'19.276	0.067
4	18	Leonardo Pulcini	Campos Racing	15	1'19.344	0.135
5	3	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix	15	1'19.351	0.142
6	5	Pedro Piquet	Trident	14	1'19.400	0.191
7	22	Dorian Boccolacci	MP Motorsport	16	1'19.453	0.244
8	7	Ryan Tveter	Trident	16	1'19.487	0.278
9	14	Gabriel Aubry	Arden International	15	1'19.502	0.293
10	6	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	15	1'19.549	0.340
11	10	Juan Manuel Correa	Jenzer Motorsport	16	1'19.592	0.383
12	19	Simo Laaksonen	Campos Racing	15	1'19.606	0.397
13	16	Joey Mawson	Arden International	15	1'19.718	0.509
14	11	David Beckmann	Jenzer Motorsport	15	1'19.782	0.573
15	20	Diego Menchaca	Campos Racing	15	1'19.807	0.598
16	24	Niko Kari	MP Motorsport	16	1'19.902	0.693
17	9	Tatiana Calderon	Jenzer Motorsport	15	1'19.974	0.765
18	15	Julien Falchero	Arden International	15	1'19.995	0.786
19	2	Anthoine Hubert	ART Grand Prix	14	1'20.003	0.794
20	23	Devlin DeFrancesco	MP Motorsport	13	1'20.191	0.982