Spa FR3.5: McLaren junior Kevin Magnussen takes another pole

The McLaren junior, who won Saturday's race from pole and leads the championship by 39 points after just six races, led the way for much of the session.

However, he was given a fierce challenge in the closing minutes, as track conditions improved and everybody's lap times tumbled.

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Antonio Felix da Costa, Carlos Sainz Jr, Nigel Malker and Stoffel Vandoorne all took brief turns at the top before DAMS driver Magnussen put in a decisive lap with two minutes remaining.

That gave him a gap of two tenths on the field at the time, and only Monaco winner Nico Muller made any inroads into that advantage to get himself on the front row for Draco in the closing stages.

Vandoorne - who had a disastrous first race at home on Saturday - abandoned his final lap and took third, and he will share the second row with race one podium finisher Melker.

Will Stevens banished the memories of an incident-filled Saturday to get into the top five, while brief provisional polesitters da Costa and Sainz were eventually shuffled back to sixth and eighth respectively.

Pos  Driver                  Team            Time       Gap
 1.  Kevin Magnussen         DAMS            1m58.428s
 2.  Nico Muller             Draco           1m58.593s  + 0.165s
 3.  Stoffel Vandoorne       Fortec          1m58.659s  + 0.231s
 4.  Nigel Melker            Tech 1          1m58.704s  + 0.276s
 5.  Will Stevens            P1/Strakka      1m58.729s  + 0.301s
 6.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Arden Caterham  1m58.744s  + 0.316s
 7.  Lucas Foresti           Comtec          1m58.843s  + 0.415s
 8.  Carlos Sainz Jr         Zeta            1m58.972s  + 0.544s
 9.  Carlos Huertas          Carlin          1m59.102s  + 0.674s
10.  Mikhail Aleshin         Tech 1          1m59.180s  + 0.752s
11.  Andre Negrao            Draco           1m59.309s  + 0.881s
12.  Daniil Move             Comtec          1m59.378s  + 0.950s
13.  Jazeman Jaafar          Carlin          1m59.381s  + 0.953s
14.  Christopher Zanella     ISR             1m59.387s  + 0.959s
15.  Matias Laine            P1/Strakka      1m59.431s  + 1.003s
16.  Marlon Stockinger       Lotus           1m59.445s  + 1.017s
17.  Arthur Pic              AV              1m59.482s  + 1.054s
18.  Oliver Webb             Fortec          1m59.497s  + 1.069s
19.  Nikolay Martsenko       Pons            1m59.513s  + 1.085s
20.  Sergey Sirotkin         ISR             1m59.547s  + 1.119s
21.  Marco Sorensen          Lotus           1m59.724s  + 1.296s
22.  Pietro Fantin           Arden Caterham  1m59.888s  + 1.460s
23.  Norman Nato             DAMS            2m00.200s  + 1.772s
24.  Yann Cunha              AV              2m00.270s  + 1.842s
25.  Mihai Marinescu         Zeta            2m00.275s  + 1.847s
26.  Zoel Amberg             Pons            2m00.720s  + 2.292s