Vesti toppled Hauger’s provisional pol🐲e time in the final three minutes of qualifying.

Hauger was the man to beat going into the latter stages of the session ജhaving led the way aft♏er the first runs, but Vesti’s 1m50.882s ensured he claimed top spot and the additional four points that comes with it.

Remarkably, Vesti didn’t have any purple sectors to ✃his name on his best run.

Victor Martins completed the top three behind Vesti✅ and Hauger in the lead MP Motorsport, ahead of Jack Doohan and MP teammate Caio Collet.

Next up was Clement Novalak and Aleksandr Smolyar, while Ayumu Iwasa left it late to go eighth with an impressive ꦍlap in the Hitech Grand Prix.

Juan Manuel Correa - who has recently joined the Sauber academy - was ninth💜 fastest, with Logan Sargeant completing the to🐻p ten.

David Schumach൲er and Calan Williams will share the front row for the first sprint race as the top 12 on the grid are reversed for the Satur💝day morning event.

Matteo Nannini, Olli Caldwell and✨ Tijmen van der Helm completed the top 15, 🗹just ahead of Jak Crawford.

Roman Stanek, Lorenzo Colombo, Armaury Cordeel and F3 debutant Johnathan Hog☂gar♒d rounded out the top 20.

Arthur Leclerc’s torrid꧙ start to the season continued as his Prema ground to a halt with 22 minutes on the ღclock.

Leclerc’s stoppage caused a brief red flag stoppage with the Monegasque set t🐈o start from 30th.