Carlin’s Y♐uki Tsunoda will line up in Saturday’s Sakhir Formula 2 feature race from pole position to keep his faint hopes of winning the title alive.

The young Japanese driver maintained the momentum he showed in practice to take his fourth pꦦole position of the season.

Tsunoda’s led the way after the opening runs an꧙d stayed on top as drivers struggled to improve on their second set of soft tyres as traffic and red flags interrupted the session.

The session was red-flagged wi♋th four minutes to go after Luca Ghiotto lost his Hitech through Turn 2, beaching his 🐎car in the process.

Once the session restarted, none 🐼of the title contenders mana𒁏ged to improve their fortunes with championship leader Mick Schumacher well down the field in P18.

Schumacher was blocked by the ART Grand Prix driver of Ma𒈔rcus Armstrong and then collided with the Trident of Roy Nissany into Turn 10, which resulted in the second red flag period of the session and a premature end to qualifying.

Callum Ilott endured one of the worst qualifying sessions of the year but will star🍨t𒁃 from ninth.

14 points separate Schumacher and ꦿIlott going into the season finale ๊in Sakhir with Nikita Mazepin and Yuki Tsunoda the outsiders.

Mazepin - who will drive alongside Schumacher at the Haas F1 team iꦇn 2021 - will start on the front row alongside Tsunoda.

Jehan Daruvala made it two Carlins in the 🧔top three as he edged out Robert Shwartzman in fourth, who’s no longer in mathematical contention for the title.

The Russian was one of the few drivers to improve on his second set of tyres, impro⛦ving from tenth to fourth.

Felipe Drugovich beat Christian Lundgaard 𓂃for fifth, while Artem Markelov was inside the top ten in sevꦑenth.

Dan Ticktum will lin😼💮e up eighth ahead of Illot and Louis Deletraz.