Fortec Motorsports Felix Serralles bagged a brace of pole positions at Spa-Francorchamps Friday afternoon, the Puerto Rican racer showing a clean pair of wheels not only to his regular Cooper Tires British Formula 3 rivals but also to the FIA European F3 Championship contenders who have joined the fun in Belgium this weekend.

Serralles set his best time - 2m 15.157s - early in the 30-minute session, just pipping Carlin man Carlos Sainz Jnr, who was 0.041s slower around the Belgian Grand Prix circuit. Yellow flags later in the session prevented Felix from bettering that and, more importantly, denied his rivals the chance also.

Serralles second-best time was 2m 15.212s, good enough to earn him a second Spa pole. He was delighted to add to the pole he claimed back in April at Monza: Its been a long time since Monza, now finally a double pole. I love this track, its all about having big balls and carrying a lot of speed and thats what I like to do with the F3 car. Im pleased I was able to put it all together.

The yellow caution flags flew at Spa after a collision between the cars of Jack Harvey (Carlin) and Hannes van Asseldonk (Fortec) at Les Combes; the incident is being investigated by race stewards. It was a bad end to the day for Harvey, who missed most of the first free practice with a misfire; he ended qualifying P7.

Prema Powerteams F3 Euroseries points leader Daniel Juncadella was third quickest in qualifying; the only other Euro interloper in the top 10 was young Brit Tom Blomqvist, sixth fastest for ma-con Motorsport.

In the National class, Adderly Fong recovered from a free practice off to lead the way for CF Racing, a tenth ahead of T-Sports category leader Spike Goddard. Championship newcomer Pedro Pablo Calbimonte was fourth in class for T-Sport on his Spa debut.

There are two races tomorrow, Friday, a 30-minute challenge at 1155 local time and the 20-minute partially-reversed grid 20-minute sprint race at 1505. The 40-minute finale is set for Saturday morning ahead of the Spa 24 Hours sports car event.

Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International SeriesProvisional qualifying times / Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) / 26 July 2012

Leading International & *FIA Euro class runners1  Felix SERRALLES / PUR,  Fortec Dallara-Mercedes  2:15.1572  Carlos SAINZ / ESP,  Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.1983  *Daniel JUNCADELLA / ESP,  Prema Dallara-Mercedes  2:15.4604  Alex LYNN / GBR,  Fortec Dallara-Mercedes  2:15.5275  Jazeman JAAFAR / MAS,  Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.6786  *Tom BLOMQVIST / GBR,  ma-con Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.6977  Jack HARVEY / GBR,  Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.7678  Pipo DERANI / BRA,  Fortec Dallara-Mercedes  2:15.8159  Hannes VAN ASSELDONK / NED,  Fortec Dallara-Mercedes  2:15.83410  Harry TINCKNELL / GBR,  Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.91412  Pietro FANTIN / BRA,  Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen  2:15.97214  Nick McBRIDE / AUS,  T-Sport Dallara-Nissan  2:16.18919  Fahmi ILYAS / MAS,  Double R Dallara-Mercedes  2:16.68120  Geoff UHRHANE / AUS,  Double R Dallara-Mercedes  2:16.777 etc

National class1  Adderly FONG / CHI,  CF Racing Dallara-Mugen Honda  2:17.8262  Spike GODDARD / AUS,  T-Sport Dallara-Mugen Honda  2:17.9623  Duvashen PADAYACHEE / AUS,  Double R Dallara-Mugen Honda 2:18.8044  Pedro Pablo CALBIMONTE / BOL,  T-Sport Dallara-Mugen Honda  2:19.325

First-race grid Serralles - Sainz - Lynn - Juncadella - van Asseldonk - Jaafar - Fantin - Lewis - Tincknell - Harvey