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Hulkenberg takes home pole

Nico Hulkenberg scored a home track pole position for tomorrow's GP2 Series race at the Nurburgring after an eventful qualifying session this afternoon

The German edged Roldan Rodriguez out of the top spot with a 1m38.161s five minutes before the end of the session, beating the Piquet GP driver by just 0.089s.

Hulkenberg's cause was helped when Luca Filippi spun and stranded himself in the traffic island at the final chicane immediately after the ART driver moved to the top of the sheets, bringing out yellow flags in the final sector.

The stricken Super Nova car was cleared with two minutes remaining, giving Hulkenberg's rivals a final chance to pull something out of the bag, but no one was able to string a lap together and the rookie's time remained safe.

A few drivers had taken turns at setting quickest times earlier in the session. Racing Engineering's Lucas di Grassi spent the longest spell on top before finally being shuffled back to third, and Javier Villa (Super Nova) also briefly held the fastest time.

Hulkenberg's team-mate Pastor Maldonado will start from fourth ahead of Villa, Fisichella's Andi Zuber and Vitaly Petrov (Addax), while points leader Romain Grosjean could only manage 14th.

Pos  Driver               Team                Time       Gap
 1.  Nico Hulkenberg      ART                 1m38.161s
 2.  Roldan Rodriguez     Piquet              1m38.250s  + 0.089s
 3.  Lucas di Grassi      Racing Engineering  1m38.320s  + 0.159s
 4.  Pastor Maldonado     ART                 1m38.618s  + 0.457s
 5.  Javier Villa         Super Nova          1m38.733s  + 0.572s
 6.  Andreas Zuber        Fisichella          1m38.852s  + 0.691s
 7.  Vitaly Petrov        Addax               1m38.888s  + 0.727s
 8.  Diego Nunes          iSport              1m38.924s  + 0.763s
 9.  Alvaro Parente       Ocean               1m39.014s  + 0.853s
10.  Edoardo Mortara      Arden               1m39.018s  + 0.857s
11.  Sergio Perez         Arden               1m39.094s  + 0.933s
12.  Luca Filippi         Super Nova          1m39.105s  + 0.944s
13.  Alberto Valerio      Piquet              1m39.114s  + 0.953s
14.  Romain Grosjean      Addax               1m39.122s  + 0.961s
15.  Kamui Kobayashi      DAMS                1m39.301s  + 1.140s
16.  Karun Chandhok       Ocean               1m39.345s  + 1.184s
17.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering  1m39.354s  + 1.193s
18.  Michael Herck        DPR                 1m39.439s  + 1.278s
19.  Jerome D'Ambrosio    DAMS                1m39.441s  + 1.280s
20.  Davide Valsecchi     Durango             1m39.480s  + 1.319s
21.  Giedo van der Garde  iSport              1m39.774s  + 1.613s
22.  Franck Perera        DPR                 1m40.509s  + 2.348s
23.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident             1m40.703s  + 2.542s
24.  Nelson Panciatici    Durango             1m40.848s  + 2.687s
25.  Ricardo Teixeira     Trident             1m41.613s  + 3.452s
26.  Luiz Razia           Fisichella          1m41.969s  + 3.808s

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