Théo Pourchaire will start Satur🔴day’s Formula 3 feature race from pole position after a storming lap put him over four-tenths clear of the rest of the field.

With slipstream so important around Monza, qualifying wꦜas a messy affair with traffic and drivers imped🌟ing each other as they looked to get that crucial tow.

ART Grand Prix, Prema and Trident are all under investigཧation collectively for impeding - which is unusual given that it is usually an individual driver, rather than a collective team that is under investigation by the s💦tewards.

Pourchaire managed to make the m🌠ost of his team-mate’s slipstream to tak⛄e pole position off Lirim Zendeli by 0.451s - his first F3 pole.

Zendeli propelled himself up the order in the dying stages, nipping ahead of the se🅺cond ART car of Alexander Smolyar.

Liam Lawson is set to start fourth andꦇ was responsible for the red flag period with just ♔over eight minutes on the clock.

The sessio𝕴n was halted with eight minut🐻es remaining after some debris was left on the circuit at Curva Grande.

An air cooler had been left in Lawson’s car as he went out for his final laps of qualifying, with the inciden🔯t being investigated by the stewards.

David Beckmann led the way after the first runs but could only manage fifth inꦛ the end, with the German complain🍰ing over team radio about a lack of tow.

Frederik ꦆV💛esti was the highest of the Prema drivers in sixth, ahead of Matteo Nannini in the Jenzer Motorsport.

Jake Hughes should have been higher and was on course to take provisional pole position, but a blockage of cars at the Ascari chicane meant he had to back off and couldn’t improve his lap ti𝕴me meaning he will start in eighth.

🍬Calan Williams starts ninth ahead of championship leader Logan Sargeant, who could only manage tenth.

It was a bad day for the championship 🦩rivals with Sargeant only in P10, while Oscar Piastri is set to start the race in 12th.