James Pull has taken pole position in qualifying at Snetterton today (27 May), heading Carlin team-mate Enaam Ahmed and Lanan's Toby Sowery on a drying track following a brief rainstorm moments before the session got underway.

The track was awash as the half-hour session got underway, and the early laps were 20 seconds off the testing pace. As soon as the cars came round on their first flying lap, it became clear that the Carlin cars of Pull, title leader Ahmed and Lanan's Sowery would be the pacesetters. With the track drying at a fairly slow pace, the Carlin drivers made the session their own, trading fastest times. Ahmed looked to be winning the battle, but then Pull went fastest moments before a red flag was shown to recover Nick Worm's car in sector one.

The session resumed with 15 minutes remaining and the second half had a familiar feel, with Pull and Ahmed lighting up the timing screens with purple sector times as the track continued to dry. Pull brought the benchmark down to within a couple of tenths of the two minute barrier, and Ahmed's response saw him try a little too hard, falling almost half a second short of Pull's pole position time.

Sowery took third place for Lanan, but he was almost a second behind the pole sitter, and he headed Douglas Motorsport's Callan O'Keefe and Double R's Jamie Chadwick. Sixth was Dane Nicolai Kjaergaard, who headed Fortec team-mate and Rockingham race-winner Ben Hingeley. Eight place was Carlin's Cameron Das, who was over two seconds away from taking his third pole in succession, whilst Jordan Cane qualified ninth for his British F3 debut. Completing the top ten was Manuel Maldonado.

The first race of the weekend will take place at 3.20pm today.

BRDC British F3 Qualifying

1. James Pull, Carlin, 2:00.192s

2. Enaam Ahmed, Carlin, +0.496s

3. Toby Sowery, Lanan Racing, +0.994s

4. Callan O'Keefe, Douglas Motorsport, +1.706s

5. Jamie Chadwick, Double R Racing, +1.764s

6. Nicolai Kjaergaard, Fortec Motorsports, +2.090s

7. Ben Hingley, Fortec Motorsports, +2.107s

8. Cameron Das, Carlin, +2.190s

9. Jordan Cane, Douglas Motorsport, +2.572s

10. Manuel Maldonado, Fortec Motorsports, +2.687s

11. Jeremy Wahome, Chris Dittman Racing, +2.749s

12. Chase Owen, Hillspeed, +2.795s

13. Omar Ismail, Chris Dittman Racing, +4.421s

14. Guilherme Samaia, Double R Racing, +4.514s

15. Aaron Di Comberti, Lanan Racing, +5.347s

16. Nick Worm, Hillspeed, +6.635s