Alvaro Parente will start the crucial Monaco round of the World Series by Renault from pole position, after his time in the second qualifying group proved better than anything from earlier in the afternoon.
Quickest in group two, the Tech 1 driver tamed Monaco's tricky street circuit to take his first World Series pole position and the bonus points that go with it. Parente will be joined on the front row by Carlin's
Sebastian Vettel, who dominated the first group, while row two will be made up by local hero Clivio Piccione and Milos Pavlovic.
As a one-off for Monaco, qualifying took the form of two 25-minute sessions. Some damp areas were still in evidence as the first group took to the track, but Vettel wasted little time in vaulting to the head of the times. Pavlovic responded quickest to the German's benchmark, but, while Michael Herck crashed out at Sainte-Dévote, the Carlin driver hit back, regaining provisional pole as he dipped under the 1min 28secs barrier.
The German headed the timesheets through the halfway point of the session, followed by Pavlovic, Fairuz Fauzy, Miguel Molina and Thursday practice pacesetter Ben Hanley, and continued to improve as time ticked by, reducing his laps from 1min 26.918secs to 1min 25.966secs in the space of five tours, leaving the rest just two minutes to try and better him.
Pavlovic and Hanley fought it out for second spot, with only a few thousandths separating them, but could do nothing about Vettel's pace. The Briton wasted one of his laps with a minor error, allowing Davide Valsecchi to briefly snatch third, while his flawless Serbian rival annexed a spot on row two. Valsecchi was demoted to fourth by Hanley in the closing moments, while Guillaume Moreau completed the top five ahead of Fauzy.
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