Herck claims pole in chaos at Spa
Michael Herck claimed pole position for Saturday's GP2 feature race at Spa-Francorchamps after coming out on top in a chaotic qualifying session on Friday afternoon
Qualifying was halted no less than four times, first due to a flooded track and then due to a variety of accidents. The 30-minute session thus took over an hour to complete.
DPR's Herck took advantage of leading the pack out of the pitlane when the track was quickest following the penultimate restart, and his time was good enough to keep him on top throughout the final dash for times.
Second was home driver Jerome D'Ambrosio (DAMS), with series leader Pastor Maldonado (Rapax) third and Oliver Turvey (iSport) set to line up fourth. Maldonado's nearest championship challenger, Sergio Perez, will start eighth.
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1. Michael Herck DPR 2m15.661s 10 2. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 2m15.942s +0.281 10 3. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 2m15.967s +0.306 11 4. Oliver Turvey iSport 2m16.176s +0.515 9 5. Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering 2m16.321s +0.660 9 6. Romain Grosjean DAMS 2m16.525s +0.864 11 7. Charles Pic Arden 2m16.881s +1.220 9 8. Sergio Perez Addax 2m17.005s +1.344 11 9. Sam Bird ART 2m17.008s +1.347 10 10. Fabrizio Crestani DPR 2m17.200s +1.539 10 11. Davide Valsecchi iSport 2m17.254s +1.593 10 12. Dani Clos Racing Engineering 2m17.294s +1.633 10 13. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden 2m17.332s +1.671 8 14. Luca Filippi Super Nova 2m17.339s +1.678 10 15. Jules Bianchi ART 2m17.632s +1.971 10 16. Alvaro Parente Coloni 2m17.798s +2.137 7 17. Max Chilton Ocean 2m18.290s +2.629 11 18. Johnny Cecotto Jr Trident 2m18.592s +2.931 11 19. Adrian Zaugg Trident 2m19.137s +3.476 6 20. Fabio Leimer Ocean 2m19.870s +4.209 6 21. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova 2m20.280s +4.619 8 22. Luiz Razia Rapax 2m21.922s +6.261 3 23. Vlado Arabadjiev Coloni 2m22.224s +6.563 4 24. Giedo van der Garde Addax 2m23.104s +7.443 4
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