Lamborghini tops Zolder qualifying

The German set a best time of 1m27.691s around the former home of the Belgian Grand Prix in the final round of qualifying. That put him nearly half a second in front of Alex Muller in the best of the Young Driver Aston Martins.

The lead All-Inkl Lamborghini Murcielago R-SV also topped the times at last month's Abu Dhabi season opener in the hands of Nicky Pastorelli, but the car was penalised five places for a pitlane infraction.

Schwager, whose team-mate will start this afternoon's qualifying race from the pole, said: "We had a little problem in qualifying one, so we adjusted the set-up and the tyre pressures. We are happy to be on pole."

Muller's team-mate Tomas Enge will not take up a front-row position because the car has been docked three grid places. The #7 Young Driver Aston was one of six cars to be given grid penalties for failing to slow down under yellow flags during second free practice on Friday.

That means the second Young Driver entry in which Darren Turner placed third in final qualifying will take up a front-row starting position in Stefan Mucke's hands. Turner ended up third up in the times ahead of Mike Hezemans aboard the Selleslagh-run Team China Chevrolet Corvette C6.R.

Peter Dumbrek was the fastest of the four Nissans in fifth place, despite the handicap of 25kg of success ballast.

Clivio Piccione and Stef Dusseldorp, who won the championship race in Abu Dhabi, will start the first race from 15th on the grid. Piccione, handicapped by 30kg of ballast, failed to make it through the first round of qualifying.

Pos  Drivers                  Team/Car              Time       Gap
 1.  Schwager/Pastorelli      All-Inkl Lamborghini  1m27.691s
 2.  Muller/Enge              Young Driver Aston    1m28.119s  + 0.428s
 3.  Turner/Mucke             Young Driver Aston    1m28.170s  + 0.479s
 4.  Hezemans/Catsburg        China Corvette        1m28.283s  + 0.592s
 5.  Dumbreck/Westbrook       JR Nissan             1m28.359s  + 0.668s
 6.  Hohenadel/Piccini        Hexis Aston Martin    1m28.424s  + 0.733s
 7.  Luhr/Krumm               JR Nissan             1m28.521s  + 0.830s
 8.  Campbell-Walter/Brabham  Sumo Power Nissan     1m28.555s  + 0.864s
 9.  Wendlinger/Kox           Swiss Lamborghini     1m28.408s  (Q2)
10.  Basseng/Winkelhock       All-Inkl Lamborghini  1m28.546s  (Q2)
11.  Zonta/Bernoldi           Sumo Power Nissan     1m28.595s  (Q2)
12.  Martin/Makowiecki        Marc VDS Ford         1m28.665s  (Q2)
13.  Hennerici/Leinders       Marc VDS Ford         1m28.897s  (Q2)
14.  Rossi/Camara             DKR Corvette          1m30.743s  (Q2)
15.  Piccione/Dusseldorp      Hexis Aston Martin    1m29.258s  (Q1)
16.  Pavlovic/Matzke          Belgian Ford          1m29.664s  (Q1)
17.  Beche/Ickx               Belgian Ford          1m29.686s  (Q1)
18.  Nilsson/Janak            Swiss Lamborghini     1m29.857s  (Q1)