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Engel Finishes Year with a Pole
Maro Engel put his Carlin Motorsport Dallara on pole position for the
final race of the 2007 season, three tenths ahead of Rodolfo Gonzalez, Sam
Bird and Greg Mansell. The German driver started the year with a pole
position in the first race at Oulton
Park and he will
hope that the race will go the same way tomorrow.
An early red flag caused by a spinning Walter Grubmuller at Yentwood
delayed the rest o fthe field but once the session got underway again it was Jonathan Kennard who set the pace. Kennard
was quickly demoted by Marko Asmer
on the next lap but he was quickly demoted by Kennard, Engel and Mustonen in
quick succession.
The very next lap Asmer popped to the top of the timing screens but
was demoted in turn by Engel. Hamad Al Fardan went off at Tarzan
causing the yellow flags to fly, slowing the pace.
Once the yellows were withdrawn Kennard went quickest but 30 seconds
later Engel was the first driver to post a 1minute 12 second lap time.
Engel was quickly followed by Rodolfo Gonzalez and Sam Bird as the chequered
flag came out to end the 30-minute session. Greg Mansell was 4th, with
Mustonen and Kennard in 5th and 6th respectively.
Sergio Perez took another class pole ahead of T-Sport
teammate Salman Al Khalifa and Romanian Mihai Marinescu.
1 - 23 - C - Maro ENGEL - 1:11.616s
2 - 9 - C - Rodolfo GONZALEZ - +0.343s
3 - 3 - C - Sam BIRD - +0.348s
4 - 50 - C - Greg MANSELL - +0.485s
5 - 26 - C - Atte MUSTONEN - +0.540s
6 - 2 - C - Jonathan KENNARD - +0.619s
7 - 14 - C - Esteban GUERRIERI - +0.764s
8 - 5 - C - Sebastian HOHENTHAL - +0.765s
9 - 22 - C - Alberto VALERIO - +0.821s
10 - 7 - C - Marko ASMER - +0.878s
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