Ireland and Britain take a pole each
Ireland and Great Britain took a pole position each in today's qualifying for this weekend's A1GP rounds at Chengdu, China
Adam Carroll will start the sprint race from the front after scoring Team Ireland's first ever A1GP pole, and he followed it up with another front row spot in the session for the feature race.
Danny Watts secured pole position on his race debut for Britain in the feature race session - denying Carroll his second pole of the day by just 0.031s - after having qualified fourth himself in the earlier sprint session.
Robert Doornbos made a fantastic start to his A1GP career by putting Team Netherlands alongside Ireland on the front row for the sprint race, just 0.069s behind Carroll, with reigning champions Switzerland in fourth.
The other high-profile series debutant, Team USA's Marco Andretti, qualified 16th for the sprint race and 11th for the feature.
Filipe Albuquerque posted a great lap in the dying seconds of the final session to earn third place for the feature race, alongside Neel Jani in fourth.
Clivio Piccione managed two top tens in only Team Monaco's second outing, qualifying tenth for the sprint and seventh for the feature.
Current joint championship leaders Malaysia and France took a sixth each, France in the sprint and Malaysia in the feature, but were only 12th and 14th respectively in the other sessions.
Sprint race
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Adam Carroll Ireland 1:15.423 2. Robert Doornbos Netherlands 1:15.492 +0.069 3. Neel Jani Switzerland 1:15.683 +0.260 4. Danny Watts Great Britain 1:15.799 +0.376 5. Filipe Albuquerque Portugal 1:16.124 +0.701 6. Nicolas Prost France 1:16.164 +0.741 7. Adrian Zaugg South Africa 1:16.268 +0.845 8. Chris van der Drift New Zealand 1:16.505 +1.082 9. Narain Karthikeyan India 1:16.553 +1.130 10. Clivio Piccione Monaco 1:16.794 +1.371 11. John Martin Australia 1:17.054 +1.631 12. Felipe Guimaraes Brazil 1:17.131 +1.708 13. Daniel Morad Lebanon 1:17.143 +1.720 14. Fairuz Fauzy Malaysia 1:17.171 +1.748 15. Edoardo Piscopo Italy 1:17.288 +1.865 16. Marco Andretti USA 1:17.437 +2.014 17. David Garza Mexico 1:18.025 +2.602 18. Ho-Pin Tung China 1:18.126 +2.703 19. Satrio Hermanto Indonesia 1:19.479 +4.056 20. Jin Woo Hwang Korea 1:20.102 +4.679
Feature race
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Danny Watts Great Britain 1:15.325 2. Adam Carroll Ireland 1:15.356 +0.031 3. Filipe Albuquerque Portugal 1:15.400 +0.075 4. Neel Jani Switzerland 1:15.621 +0.296 5. Adrian Zaugg South Africa 1:15.947 +0.622 6. Fairuz Fauzy Malaysia 1:15.963 +0.638 7. Clivio Piccione Monaco 1:16.016 +0.691 8. Robert Doornbos Netherlands 1:16.124 +0.799 9. John Martin Australia 1:16.289 +0.964 10. Felipe Guimaraes Brazil 1:16.403 +1.078 11. Marco Andretti USA 1:16.557 +1.232 12. Nicolas Prost France 1:16.604 +1.279 13. Daniel Morad Lebanon 1:16.702 +1.377 14. David Garza Mexico 1:16.985 +1.660 15. Chris van der Drift New Zealand 1:17.176 +1.851 16. Narain Karthikeyan India 1:17.218 +1.893 17. Ho-Pin Tung China 1:17.299 +1.974 18. Satrio Hermanto Indonesia 1:17.759 +2.434 19. Edoardo Piscopo Italy 1:17.845 +2.520 20. Jin Woo Hwang Korea 1:18.875 +3.550
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