Practice-
Alexander Dunne started the Montreal weekend on the front foot, topping the times with a 1:22.524.
He led Rodin Motorsport teammate Martinius Stenshorne by a slender 0.012s, while Campos Racing’s Nikola Tsolov completed the top three just over a tenth behind the Alpine Academy driver.
With preparation laps complete, Joshua Duerksen set the opening time of the session on a 1:25.319 for Invicta Racing.
Trident’s Laurens van Hoepen then lowered the fastest lap to a 1:24.100, while Duerksen filtered through on his next attempt just 0.066s behind in P2.
Stenshorne then broke into the 23s as the Rodin driver logged a 1:23.888 to take P1 from van Hoepen with just over half an hour to go.
The track continued to rubber in quickly as the Paraguayan driver took top spot back on his next lap on a 1:23.519, while the other Rodin of Dunne jumped up to second, 0.296s down.
That was until Tsolov put Campos Racing top of the pile with a 1:23.124, before van Hoepen edged ahead by just 0.019s.
Nico Varrone put Van Amersfoort Racing into the top five just and was followed across the line by Tsolov, who moved the goalposts once more.
A 1:22.625 was enough to retake P1 and leave him a tenth clear of Dunne before the Irishman followed up with his own improvement to go fastest of all on a 1:22.524.
Into the final 10 minutes and Colton Herta moved Hitech up to fourth, leaping up the order with the track continuing to improve.
Varrone went within 0.177s of Dunne’s earlier time to move VAR into third place briefly, before Stenshrone restored the Rodin 1-3 on his next lap.
Rafael Villagomez brought out the yellow flags briefly with a spin at the final corner.
Qualifying-
Laurens van Hoepen earned his maiden Aramco Pole Position Award, taking the top spot with his final lap and a 1:21.442 for Trident.
Rafael Camara rebounded from mid-session contact with the wall to take P2 ahead of Alexander Dunne in third.
Ritomo Miyata was first across the line to set a competitive lap, but his initial effort was quickly beaten as Joshua Duerksen recorded a 1:22.914 to go fastest.
Gabriele Mini took over P1 on his first attempt with a 1:22.615 to go 0.2s clear, with Kush Maini also going quicker than Duerksen.
Rafael Camara then closed that deficit down to just 0.005s as he filtered through to go P2.
After opting for an extra preparation lap, Nikola Tsolov went to the top of the timing screens but Nico Varrone then bettered that effort, a 1:22.078 the new benchmark time by the Van Amersfoort Racing driver.
Camara delivered a purple first sector and two personal bests to then take P1, 1:22.025 leaving him 0.053s ahead of the Argentinian driver.
Van Hoepen made an improvement of his own to go third fastest for Trident as the session approached the halfway stage.
Drivers then returned to the pitlane for fresh Supersoft tyres and headed back out onto circuit for the final 12 minutes of running.
As the next set of laps were set to begin, Oliver Goethe tapped the outside wall at Turn 4, causing session-ending suspension damage and bringing out the Red Flag.
The session resumed and drivers returned to the track with eight minutes to go for their final attempts, but a second red flag followed with Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak hitting the wall at Turn 4.
Back underway, Noel Leon recorded the new fastest time only for teammate Tsolov to take P1 back on a 1:21.789.
Stenshorne set a lap good enough to usurp the Bulgarian and a 1:21.744 put the Norwegian top of the pile with just over a minute to go.
Teammate Dunne then made a final improvement to record a 1:21.709 and take provisional pole position.
Championship leader Tsolov improved on his last attempt but couldn’t better Dunne, but Camara and van Hoepen did, with the latter taking his maiden F2 pole position,
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