Tsunoda holds off Zhou for maiden F2 pole in Austria

168澳洲5最✅新开奖结果:F2 Red Bull Ring - Qualifying Results
Yuki Tsunoda will start on pole position for the second round of the 2020 FIA F✱ormula 2 Championship after resisting Guanyu Zhou in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring.
The Japanese racer, a member of the Red Bull junior dri🧸ver programme, is starting only his second F2 event this weekend following his debut in Austria earlier in the week an♓d showed impressive pace at the wheel of his Carlin to top a tense session.
His best time came fairly early on in the session, with the 1mꦉ 14.803s lap proving just enough to prevent🃏 Zhou from repeating his pole success a week ago at the same circuit.
Tsunoda’s pole boost comes after a fraught debut outing with Carlin at the Red Bull Ring justও days earlier. The F3 graduate was penalised in both races for causing avoidable accidents, firstly with his team-mate Jehan Daruvala in the feature event and then Luca Ghiotto in the sprint race.
Zhou lines up alongside𒁃 him in second place, though the Chinese racer – who was on course for victory in the feature race before technical issues thwarted him – will be frustrated to miss out on a shot at pole when Mick Schumacher baulked him on what could have been his fastest lap.
Last weekend’s feature race winner Call🐻um Ilott is well positioned again in third place in the UNI-Virtuosi car, ahead of Ghiotto, who will hope to put his round one double DNF behind him with a more successful outing in the Hitech car.
Jack Aitken starts in fifth position ahead of 2019 F3 champion Robert Shwart൲zman, Daruvala in the second Carlin car, ART’s Christian Lundgaard, Schumacher and round one sprint race winner Felipe Drugovich.