Photo: Florent Gooden / DPPI / Renault Sport Media
ART Junior driver Aurelien Panis?took his maiden Eurocup FR2.0 pole?in the Saturday qualifying of the weekend?in Moscow.
Panis managed to beat the best Group A time from Anthoine Hubert, who himself secured a front row start with a last-second lap under the checkered flag.
The second row of the grid for today’s race will be filled by title contenders Egor Orudzhev and Nyck De Vries, while Prema duo Dennis Olsen and Bruno Bonifacio – race winners of the previous round at Spa-Francorchamps – had a tough qualifying and will only start from 12th and 19th.
Another title hopeful Andrea Pizzitola qualified fifth, with ART JT’s Levin Amweg took sixth.
Matt Parry will try to make the most of his seventh grid position after a rough start to the FR2.0 NEC champion’s season. The top ten is completed by Lotus junior Callan O’Keeffe, American driver Ryan Tveter, and local wildcard driver Matevos Isaakyan.
Results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Group A | Group B |
| 1 | Aurelien Panis | ART Junior Team | 1:32.025 | |
| 2 | Anthoine Hubert | Tech 1 Racing | 1:32.388 | |
| 3 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | 1:32.176 | |
| 4 | Nyck De Vries | Koiranen GP | 1:32.546 | |
| 5 | Andrea Pizzitola | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:32.248 | |
| 6 | Levin Amweg | ART Junior Team | 1:32.654 | |
| 7 | Matt Parry | Fortec Motorsports | 1:32.255 | |
| 8 | Callan O’Keeffe | ART Junior Team | 1:32.679 | |
| 9 | Ryan Tveter | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:32.331 | |
| 10 | Matevos Isaakyan | JD Motorsport | 1:32.754 | |
| 11 | Kevin Jorg | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:32.339 | |
| 12 | Dennis Olsen | Prema Powerteam | 1:32.956 | |
| 13 | Ignazio D’Agosto | Koiranen GP | 1:32.533 | |
| 14 | Alex Albon | KTR | 1:32.973 | |
| 15 | George Russell | Koiranen GP | 1:32.573 | |
| 16 | Gustav Malja | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1:33.008 | |
| 17 | Simon Gachet | ARTA Engineering | 1:32.581 | |
| 18 | Hans Villemi | Prema Powerteam | 1:33.078 | |
| 19 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 1:32.701 | |
| 20 | Martin Rump | Fortec Motorsports | 1:33.369 | |
| 21 | Nick Cassidy | Koiranen GP | 1:32.738 | |
| 22 | Gregor Ramsay | KTR | 1:33.530 | |
| 23 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 Racing | 1:32.924 | |
| 24 | Steijn Schothorst | Manor MP Motorsport | 1:33.544 | |
| 25 | Jack Aitken | Fortec Motorsports | 1:33.050 | |
| 26 | Dennis Korneev | JD Motorsport | 1:33.551 | |
| 27 | Semen Evstigneev | BVM Motorsport | 1:33.831 | |
| 28 | Danylo Pronenko | BVM Motorsport | 1:35.140 |