After t💛he opening runs, Hauger trailed Schumacher as the Trident driver went in search of his maiden pole position.

A brief red flag period with six minutes on the clock halted the sessioꦑn after Hunter Yeany spun at the Turn 2-3 complex of corners.

Hauger nailed his final lap to take t🤪op spot off Schumacher, thus picking up t൩he four points that come with pole in F3.

This has allowed the Norweigan to extend his points lead to 29 points over Jack🍨 Doohan, who won two of the three races in Belgium last time out.

Doohan qualified having been pipped by MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins in 𝓰the clos꧙ing stages.

Martin set the fastest final sector of anyone as he benefited from a tow d🍌own the start-finish straight.

Outside of the top four, Clement Novalak made it three Tridents in the top five. ♒;

Caio Collet qualified sixth ahead of Red Bull juಌnior Jak Crawford, who enjꦓoyed one of his best sessions of the season.

Aleksandr Smolyar was eighth for ART Grand Prix a🎀head of Ayumu Iwasa and Arthur Leclerc.

Logan Sargeant and Armaury Cordeel will share the front row of the grid for Saturday’s opening sprint race, with the latter on reverse grid p𝓰ole.