Championship contender Luke Browning managed to set the fastest time around the Red Bull Ring, ahead of Lindblad and Tramnitz
Austrian local hero Charlie Wurz was the fastest around the Red Bull Ring during Free Practice for Jenzer Motorsport
Despite being on the back of the field after the majority of the grid completed their first run of flying laps, he was the last car to set a time and climbed to 14th
At the front, the top five was just separated by less than two-tenths, with Noel León fastest closely followed by Gabriele Mini only 0.065 behind.
Considering the length of the Austrian track, the time differences were minimal, with the first 21 drivers within a second of the fastest time.
After the first run, all the drivers returned to the pitlane for a new, fresh set of soft tyres to go again and chase the fastest time.
Following a short break, the cars started to return to the track with approximately eight minutes to go for the second and definitive run.
Alexander Dunne was the first one to achieve a significant improvement, jumping up to fifth
With less than seven minutes to go, Browning reported on the radio that he was seeing spots of rain, with Leon making similar comments on his radio as well.
Meanwhile, Leon and Van Hoepen were noted by the FIA over an alleged unsafe release.
Browning, who was first in the queue slowed down the field during the preparation lap to try not to give a tow to Campos driver Mari Boya, right behind him. Ultimately, he gave up and led the field for the definitive run.
Browning got into provisional pole ahead of the ART duo who momentarily occupied the second and third sports, who Gabriele Mini and Tim Tramnitz briefly took over.
Despite not improving his second lap, Browning could maintain himself at the top of the timesheet to take pole position with a time of 1:20:222 ahead of Red Bull junior Lindblad and Tramnitz.
This result meant Browning’s maiden pole position for the British Williams prospect in Formula 3.
Prema’s Dino Beganovic was improving on his last run but got screwed by the high amount of traffic on the track and could only take fifth place. He complained on the radio that he got impeded by the pole sitter.
Gabriele Mini finished in front of Beganovic in fourth, with Oliver Goethe in sixth and Laurens van Hoepen in seventh.
Sebastian Montoya qualified in eight, with Dunne ninth ahead of Nikola Tsolov and Christian Mansell. Martinius Stenshorne, in 12th, was set to start from the reverse grid pole in the Sprint Race
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