Hartley leads second Carlin front row
Brendon Hartley will start both British Formula 3 races at Thruxton tomorrow from the front row after qualifying on pole position for race two this afternoon
The New Zealander went one better than in the day's earlier session, setting his best time with 12 minutes remaining and returning to the pits to save his tyres for tomorrow's traditionally rubber-eating races.
"It's been a really good day," Hartley told autosport.com. "A first and a second, and I've done the least amount of laps of everyone so hopefully my tyres will be in good shape tomorrow. I think we got the strategy just right."
Oliver Turvey completed the second all-Carlin Motorsport front row of the day with the second quickest time, ahead of Marcus Ericsson who also went one place better than this morning with third place. The top three cars were again separated by less than five hundredths of a second.
Nick Tandy set the provisional quickest time just before Hartley's best effort, but he was eventually pushed down to fourth in his JTR Mygale.
Atte Mustonen and Sergio Perez completed the top six, just ahead of Jaime Alguersuari, who could only follow this morning's pole position with seventh place for race two.
Jay Bridger set the best time of the National Class runners in 16th place overall, while class leader Andy Meyrick caused a red flag when he spun off early in the session and will have to start from the back row of the grid.
Pos Driver Team Car Time Gap 1. Brendon Hartley Carlin D/M 1:06.695 2. Oliver Turvey Carlin D/M 1:06.730 +0.035 3. Marcus Ericsson Fortec D/M 1:06.741 +0.046 4. Nick Tandy JTR M/M 1:06.825 +0.130 5. Atte Mustonen Double R D/M 1:06.838 +0.143 6. Sergio Perez T-Sport D/H 1:06.848 +0.153 7. Jaime Alguersuari Carlin D/M 1:06.951 +0.256 8. John Martin Double R D/M 1:06.984 +0.289 9. Sebastian Hohenthal Fortec D/M 1:07.025 +0.330 10. Michael Devaney Ultimate M/M 1:07.103 +0.408 11. Sam Abay Carlin D/M 1:07.197 +0.502 12. Henry Arundel Double R D/M 1:07.253 +0.558 13. Max Chilton Hitech D/M 1:07.370 +0.675 14. Philip Major Fortec D/M 1:07.458 +0.763 15. Jay Bridger Fluid (N) D/H 1:07.493 +0.798 16. Walter Grubmuller Hitech D/M 1:07.553 +0.858 17. Steven Guerrero T-Sport (N) D/H 1:07.810 +1.115 18. Ricardo Teixeira Ultimate M/M 1:07.810 +1.115 19. Ali Jackson Ultimate M/M 1:07.852 +1.157 20. Stefan Wilson Fluid (N) D/H 1:07.961 +1.266 21. Salman Al-Khalifa T-Sport (N) D/H 1:08.012 +1.317 22. Viktor Jensen Nexa D/H 1:08.063 +1.368 23. Kristjan Einar Carlin (N) D/H 1:08.266 +1.571 24. Hywel Lloyd CF (N) D/H 1:08.463 +1.768 25. Andy Meyrick Carlin (N) D/H 1:09.558 +2.863 26. Jordan Williams Loctite (N) D/H 1:09.849 +3.154
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