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Championship contenders Oliver Webb and Jean-Eric Vergne will start on the front row for tomorrow’s British Formula 3 race at Spa after topping today’s qualifying.

Vergne and Carlin team-mate James Calado set the pace for much of the dry session, with points leader Vergne recording a 2m14.496s effort before everyone came in to change tyres for a second run.

Hitech’s Gabriel Dias briefly jumped to second before Adderley Fong stopped out on the circuit and brought out the red flags. That left just five minutes for a final effort, and many drivers went faster in the closing moments.

Calado improved to 2m15.059s, but was bumped back to fifth by the flying Fortec pair of Webb and Daniel McKenzie.

Webb recorded 2m14.476s to pip Vergne, who did not improve, and top the session. McKenzie was half a second slower than the title rivals, who clashed last time out at Rockingham, but was still fast enough to push Dias out of third.

Behind Calado, Prema’s Daniel Juncadella was the best of the F3 Euro Series runners in sixth after a late charge.

Vergne’s pace earlier in the session - he was the only man to dip under 2m15s more than once - means he will start the first race today from pole, with the grid for that round decided by drivers’ second-fastest times in qualifying.

Grids to follow