Team Ireland have put themselves firmly in the box seats to win the A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport title for the 08/09 season following today's qualifying session at Brands Hatch.
Adam Carroll smashed the Brands Hatch lap record to take pole for both the sprint and feature races which will be held on Sunday.
The new Ferrari powered A1 cars are 2-3 seconds per lap faster than the Lola-Zytek A1 cars used in previous seasons.
Team Mexico's Salvador Duran qualified second in the sprint race while Team Monaco put in an excellent performance to take that in the feature race
Team Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen continued his good form qualifying third for both the sprint and feature races despite having an eventfull morning practice session.
Shortly after having set the fastest practice time, he braked too late and went off at Druids. Being a good sport he assisted the marshalls with the recovery of his car - can you imagine an F1 driver doing that?
The top ten qualifying positions for each race are as follows -
Sprint Race qualifying result:
1. Ireland (Adam Carroll), 1m11.615s
2. Mexico (Salvador Duran), +0.038s
3. Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen), +0.377s
4. USA (JR Hildebrand), +0.379s
5. Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque), +0.425s
6. New Zealand (Earl Bamber), +0.493s
7. India (Narain Karthikeyan), +0.494s
8. Switzerland (Neel Jani), +0.597s
9. Indonesia (Satrio Hermanto), +1.043s
10. Australia (John Martin), +1.130s
Feature Race qualifying result:
1. Ireland (Adam Carroll), 1m10.902
2. Monaco (Clivio Piccione), +0.183s
3. Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen), +0.244s
4. Switzerland (Neel Jani), +0.436s
5. France (Nicolas Prost), +0.641s
6. New Zealand (Earl Bamber), +0.731s
7. Australia (John Martin), +1.028s
8. China (Congfu Cheng), +1.278s
9. Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque), +1.368s
10. India (Narain Karthikeyan), +1.495s
L2F will be at Brands Hatch for both races on Sunday together with Mrs L2F and L2F junior.
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