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Ireland's Michael
Devaney scored the first ever Formula 3 pole position for Mygale and Ultimate
Motorsport in a thrilling wet qualifying session for round 9 of the 2008 British
F3 International Series. Nick Tandy made it an all Mygale front row in his best
ever qualifying session in his short British F3 career. Jay Bridger took the
National Class pole ending Andy Meyrick's 100% qualifying record, the Welshman
finishing 4th in class and outside the top 20 overall.
The 30-minute session
started in the pouring Norfolk rain with Marcus Ericsson setting the early pace
ahead of Atte Mustonen and Sergio Perez but with just one flying lap on the
board the red flags came out to halt qualifying as one of the Ultimate Mygales
was beached on the inside kerb at the Bomb Hole.
With the car safely
removed qualifying resumed and the times started to tumble. Ericsson held onto
the top spot for the next 5-minutes as the places behind the Swede changed every
few seconds with Sam Abay, Sebastian Hohenthal and Michael Devaney all battling
for the front row position. With 20 minutes of the session remaining Atte
Mustonen posted a 1m14.316 lap to move to the top of the timing sheets but the
Finn was quickly displaced by first Ericsson and then Nick Tandy, with Perez and
Alguersuari pushing Mustonen further down the order.
Two minutes elapsed
before Devaney went two tenths quicker than Tandy with a 1m13.504s lap but as
the JTR Marshal Westland Mygale crossed the line Tandy went back to the top as
he stopped the clock with a 1m13.468s lap. With Alguersuari moving into second
place ahead of Devaney the top three drivers were split by just 0.036 seconds.
Devaney wasn't finished and he posted the fastest lap of the session on his next
lap to move into pole position by just 0.025 seconds ahead of Tandy and 0.057
seconds ahead of Alguersuari. The Spaniards Red Bull team mate Brendon Hartley
made it an all Carlin second row, with Sebastian Hohenthal heading row 3 just
ahead of championship leader Sergio Perez.
Jay Bridger was the
quickest in the National Class by far, reveling in the wet conditions and never
dropping out of the top ten overall on his Fluid Motorsport teams home track.
Steven Guerrero had his best qualifying session, finishing 6 places ahead of
Stefan Wilson.
Round 9
Qualifying
1 - 16 - INT - Michael
DEVANEY - IRL - 1m13.443s
2 - 28 - INT - Nick
TANDY - GBR - +0.025s
3 - 4 - INT - Jaime
ALGUERSUARI - ESP - +0.057s
4 - 3 - INT - Brendon
HARTLEY - NZL - +0.142s
5 - 7 - INT -
Sebastian HOHENTHAL - SWE - +0.263s
6 - 9 - INT - Sergio
PEREZ - MEX - +0.311s
7 - 17 - INT - Oliver
TURVEY - GBR - +0.312s
8 - 8 - INT - Marcus
ERICSSON - SWE - +0.416s
9 - 50 - NAT - Jay
BRIDGER - GBR - +0.674s
10 - 26 - INT - Atte
MUSTONEN - FIN - +0.730s
11 - 18 - INT - Sam
ABAY - AUS - +1.231s
12 - 53 - NAT - Steven
GUERRERO - COL - +1.236s
13 - 15 - INT - Philip
MAJOR - CAN - +1.291s
14 - 6 - INT - Henry
ARUNDEL - GBR - +1.365s
15 - 24 - INT - John
MARTIN - AUS - +1.383s
16 - 2 - INT - Walter
GRUBMULLER - AUT - +1.485s
17 - 1 - INT - Max
CHILTON - GBR - +1.503s
18 - 51 - NAT - Stefan
WILSON - GBR - +1.601s
19 - 5 - INT - Viktor
JENSEN - ISL - +1.826s
20 - 11 - INT -
Alistair JACKSON - GBR - +1.954s
21 - 57 - NAT - Salman
AL KHALIFA - BHR - +2.028s
22 - 56 - NAT - Andy
MEYRICK - GBR - +2.049s
23 - 12 - INT -
Ricardo TEIXEIRA - ANG - +2.158s
24 - 54 - NAT -
Kristjan EINAR - ISL - +2.269s
25 - 59 - NAT - Jordan
WILLIAMS - GBR - +2.888s
26 - 60 - NAT - Callum
MacLEOD - GBR - +3.484s
27 - 52 - NAT
- Hywel LLOYD - GBR - +4.833s
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