Hungaroring F3.5: Dillmann steals dramatic pole in wet qualifying

Lotus driver Roy Nissany led much of the wet-weather session and headed the timesheets at the chequered flag, only for a last-gasp lap by Dillmann to put him seven tenths adrift.

However, a few seconds after that, SMP Racing driver Vaxiviere went even quicker, the Frenchman taking a tenth out of Dillmann's time, only to have his benchmark deleted for track limits.

As such, 2015 runner-up Vaxiviere had to settle for third and will line up behind a Dillmann - Nissany front row.

A full second behind the poleman was Arden's Aurelien Panis in fourth, with Fortec's Louis Deletraz taking fifth, just 0.04s ahead of Nissany's Lotus teammate Rene Binder.

Beitske Visser will start the race in seventh, ahead of Pietro Fittipaldi, Saturday winner Johnny Cecotto and Giuseppe Cipriani.

Of the 15 drivers in the field, five failed to set a time of any sort during the session, which was punctuated by two full-course yellow periods.

Qualifying 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Tom Dillmann	AVF	2:02.933
2	Roy Nissany	Lotus	2:03.665	0.732
3	Matthieu Vaxiviere	SMP Racing	2:03.865	0.932
4	Aurelien Panis	Arden Motorsport	2:03.990	1.057
5	Louis Deletraz	Fortec Motorsports	2:04.393	1.460
6	Rene Binder	Lotus	2:04.431	1.498
7	Beitske Visser	Teo Martin Motorsport	2:04.780	1.847
8	Pietro Fittipaldi	Fortec Motorsports	2:04.841	1.908
9	Johnny Cecotto	RP Motorsport	2:06.286	3.353
10	Giuseppe Cipriani	Durango Racing Team	2:08.926	5.993
	Alfonso Celis	AVF
	Egor Orudzhev	Arden Motorsport
	Vitor Baptista	RP Motorsport
	Matevos Isaakyan	SMP Racing
	Yu Kanamaru	Teo Martin Motorsport