Yuki Tsunoda stormed to his third Formula 2 pole position ꧂of the season as he saw off Carlin teammate Jehan Daruvala in a tightly-contested qualifying session at the Sochi Autodrom.

Both Carlin drivers appeared to be hooked up with the Sochi circuit as Daruvala set an impressive early pace♕ with a 1m49.048s, 0.4s clear of his nearest challenger.

Daruvala may have led after the first runs but a last gasp effort from Tsunoda put him on top with a 1m48.688s, ♈with his teammate managing to get withiꦅn just 0.006s for top spot.

Impressively, it’s the first t꧋ime Daruvala has qualified inside the top five all season as he looks to score his first podium of the campaign.

Points leader Mick 🎃Schumacher is set to start third, the only non-Carlin driver to get within two-t🍃enths of pole.

The German sits eight points clear of Callum Ilott in the drivers’ championship, with Ilott set to start the race in ღfourth.

Luca Ghiotto completed the top five, however, he is under investigation for blocking one of Ilott’s qualifying efforts early on in the 🦩session and thus may be 𒆙subject to a grid penalty.

Mugello pole-si✤tter C🔯hristian Lundgaard will start sixth ahead of the second Prema of Robert Shwartzman.

Jack Aitken was 0.618s off the 𒁏pace in eighth, narrowly beಞating teammate Guanyu Zhou.

Nikita Mazepin - whoꦑ is one of three Russian drivers alongside Shwartzman and Artem Markelov - completed the top ten positions.

With no Formula 3 action this weekend, the F2 feature race is set to take place on Saturda📖y morni🧔ng before F1 final practice.

The full results for F2 qualifying from So𓆏chi can be found here: