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Bulgaria’s Nikola Tsolov (Campos Racing) will start from pole position for the Formula 3 Feature Race of the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco, on Sunday morning at 8.00am, after taking pole position on Friday morning in Group A qualifying, ahead of Spain’s Mari Boya, his team-mate at Campos. He will be joined on the front row by another driver from Eastern Europe, Poland’s Roman Bilinski (Rodin Motorsport), who set the fastest time of the 15 drivers in Group B just before midday, ahead of his British team-mate Callum Voisin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both sessions were briefly interrupted by red flags, but it was young Brando Badoer’s (Prema Racing) crash in Group B that had the most serious consequences for his rivals. With three minutes remaining in the session, the top drivers did come out of the pits for a last flying lap, but too late to do better than Tsolov in Group A.<\/p>\n

On Sunday’s grid, the championship leader after six races, Brazilian Rafael C\u00e2mara, who has already won twice this season (in Melbourne and Bahrain), will be on the 4th row, on the side of the grid allocated to Group B, behind Roman Bilinski<\/strong>, Callum Voisin and a third driver to keep a close eye on, German Tim Tramnitz (MP Motorsport), currently 3rd in the championship.<\/p>\n

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Tramnitz will be joined on the 4th row by Charlie Wurz (Trident), who set the 4th fastest time in Group A. The young Austrian is the son of Alex Wurz, a former Benetton and Williams F1 driver (69 GPs contested, 3 podiums between 1997 and 2007).<\/p>\n

Frenchman Giusti on pole for the Sprint Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

The good news for French fans is that they will see a French driver on pole position for Saturday’s Sprint Race, based on the principle of the inverted grid (for the top 12): Alessandro Giusti (MP Motorsport) was lucky enough to set the 6th fastest time in qualifying, in Group B, and will therefore be ideally placed to win this Sprint of 23 laps (or 40 minutes + 1 lap), on Saturday at 10.45 am.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, the Feature Race will be contested over 27 laps (or 45 minutes + 1 lap). Tsolov will be on pole, with Bilinski alongside him, and another Frenchman, 17-year-old Th\u00e9ophile Na\u00ebl (Van Amersfoort Racing), an F3 rookie, will start further back on the 12th row. It will be very early (8am). Time to wake up!<\/p>\n

Qualifying Group A<\/a><\/p>\n

Qualifying Group B<\/a><\/p>\n

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