{"id":762541,"date":"2026-06-26T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762541\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:13:29","slug":"f2-noel-leons-inspired-strategy-call-earns-him-maiden-pole-position-in-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762541\/","title":{"rendered":"F2: Noel Leon\u2019s inspired strategy call earns him maiden pole position in Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Noel Leon took his maiden Formula 2 pole position in Spielberg, beating Alexander Dunne and his Campos Racing team mate Nikola Tsolov to top spot on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">After the first set of laps, the Mexican left the pits on his own during the middle of the session while the rest of his rivals waited in the pit lane before conducting their final runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Leon\u2019s 1m 15.544s thus became the time to beat for the remaining 21 drivers, with Dunne the closest for Rodin, 0.129s slower while Tsolov finished in P3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Championship leader Gabriele Min\u00ec ended up fourth for MP Motorsport, while Rafael Camara, having been fastest after the first set of laps, finished in P5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak led the charge for ART Grand Prix in sixth place, with Oliver Goethe in seventh. Van Amersfoort Racing\u2019s Rafael Villagomez ended up in P8, ahead of TRIDENT\u2019s John Bennett, with PREMA Racing\u2019s Sebastian Montoya in P10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Montoya is now set to start from reverse grid pole in Saturday\u2019s Sprint Race, where lights out is scheduled for 1415 local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">You can read a full report from today\u2019s FIA Formula 2 Qualifying session on the official website <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiaGVyZV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5maWFmb3JtdWxhMi5jb20vIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJleHRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Leon took his maiden Formula 2 pole position in Spielberg, beating Alexander Dunne and his Campos Racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-762541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}