Both Kiwi drivers, Liam Lawson and Marcus Armstrong, have failed to break into the top ten qualifying for the latest FIA Formula 2 Championship round at Silverstone in the UK overnight. Lawson qualified 11th and Armstrong back in 14th.
Oscar Piastri became the fourth different pole-sitter in as many rounds with a dominant performance at Silverstone, setting the fastest lap of the session in the first stint, before a Robert Shwartzman crash brought out a Red Flag and ended Qualifying prematurely.
Championship leader Guanyu Zhou snuck into second with a late lap, but was 0.221s off Piastri’s poletime of 1:39.854. MP Motorsport’s Richard Verschoor scored his best Qualifying position with third, just over four-tenths off the leader.
Saturday’s reverse grid Sprint Race gets underway at 8:50am local time (7:50pm NZ time)
Qualifying results
| 1 | Oscar Piastri | Prema | 1m39.854s | 11 | |
| 2 | Guanyu Zhou | Virtuosi | 1m40.075s | +0.221s | 11 |
| 3 | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport | 1m40.259s | +0.405s | 10 |
| 4 | Dan Ticktum | Carlin | 1m40.408s | +0.554s | 11 |
| 5 | Theo Pourchaire | ART Grand Prix | 1m40.419s | +0.565s | 12 |
| 6 | Felipe Drugovich | Virtuosi | 1m40.451s | +0.597s | 10 |
| 7 | Robert Shwartzman | Prema | 1m40.452s | +0.598s | 10 |
| 8 | Roy Nissany | DAMS | 1m40.486s | +0.632s | 11 |
| 9 | Juri Vips | Hitech GP | 1m40.491s | +0.637s | 10 |
| 10 | Christian Lundgaard | ART Grand Prix | 1m40.556s | +0.702s | 11 |
| 11 | Liam Lawson | Hitech GP | 1m40.679s | +0.825s | 10 |
| 12 | Jehan Daruvala | Carlin | 1m40.683s | 0.829s | 11 |
| 13 | Lirim Zendeli | MP Motorsport | 1m40.772s | +0.918s | 10 |
| 14 | Marcus Armstrong | DAMS | 1m40.895s | +1.041s | 11 |
| 15 | Ralph Boschung | Campos Racing | 1m40.915s | +1.061s | 10 |
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