Indian driver Jehan Daruvala completed an exhilarating pole to flag victory in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship here yesterday. Formula 1 hopeful Jehan also had the fastest lap to his name in race one of the weekend at the legendary Spa Francorchamps circuit. The teenage racing sensation from Mumbai, had a tense qualifying earlier yesterday, and began setting lap times with only five minutes left for the session to end.

Jehan was fifth on the timesheets after his first lap and improved to provisional second on the next lap. On his third and last effort, Jehan gave it everything for a brilliant lap to bag pole position by 0.10 seconds ahead of the then championship leader ' Marcus Armstrong of New Zealand. Jehan managed to lap the 7km circuit in a time of 2:12.983, while Spaniard, Alex Palou was third, two tenths behind Jehan.