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Jack Harvey fires back to form with double pole at Rockingham

Jack Harvey bounced back onto form to take a double pole position for this weekend's British Formula 3 International Series races at Rockingham

The Racing Steps-backed driver was a clear half-second quicker than his opposition during the first half of the session. As others found chunks of time on their second sets of Cooper tyres, Harvey trimmed another two tenths to end the session with three laps faster than anyone else managed.

"The first set felt really good," said Harvey. "I felt happy and comfortable. On the second set I had a small issue with understeer but it obviously wasn't disastrous, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go quicker."

Alongside Harvey's Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen on the grid for today's race and tomorrow afternoon's finale will sit the Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes of Alex Lynn. After topping the recent test, and going fastest in yesterday's wet sessions, the reigning Formula Renault UK champion was disappointed not to grab his maiden F3 pole, but happy to recover from a scrappy start to the session.

Similarly, Jazeman Jaafar had a difficult start to qualifying, including a spin at the Pif-Paf chicane, but moved up the order and will share the second row for races one and three with championship-leading Carlin team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr, who suffered a perplexing oversteer problem.

Harry Tincknell (Carlin) starts fifth for both races, with 2011 Rockingham winner Pietro Fantin (Carlin) and Hannes van Asseldonk (Fortec) swapping sixth and seventh for the two races.

T-Sport's Spike Goddard topped the National Class, setting identical laps for his two fastest laps.

The times remain provisional while a group of drivers, including Fantin, Tincknell and Pipo Derani, are investigated for alleged track-limits offences.

Grid for Race 1:

Pos Driver                  Team/Car                 Time       Gap
 1. Jack Harvey             Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.645s
 2. Alex Lynn               Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m17.841s  + 0.196s
 3. Jazeman Jaafar          Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.936s  + 0.291s
 4. Pietro Fantin           Carlin Dallara-VW        1m18.076s  + 0.431s
 5. Felix Serralles         Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m18.344s  + 0.699s
 6. Hannes van Asseldonk    Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m18.375s  + 0.730s
 7. Fahmi Ilyas             Double R Dallara-Merc    1m18.884s  + 1.239s
 8. Nick McBride            T-Sport Dallara-Nissan   1m19.059s  + 1.414s
 9. Geoff Uhrhane           Double R Dallara-Merc    1m19.257s  + 1.612s
10. Spike Goddard           T-Sport Dallara-Mugen*   1m20.129s  + 2.484s
11. Duvashen Padayachee     Double R Dallara-Mugen*  1m21.524s  + 3.879s
12. Carlos Sainz Jr         Carlin Dallara-VW**      1m17.906s  + 0.261s
13. Harry Tincknell         Carlin Dallara-VW**      1m18.038s  + 0.393s
14. Pipo Derani             Fortec Dallara-Merc**    1m18.916s  + 1.271s

Grid for Race 3:

Pos Driver                  Team/Car                 Time       Gap
 1. Jack Harvey             Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.444s
 2. Alex Lynn               Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m17.650s  + 0.206s
 3. Jazeman Jaafar          Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.802s  + 0.358s
 4. Carlos Sainz Jr         Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.813s  + 0.369s
 5. Harry Tincknell         Carlin Dallara-VW        1m17.921s  + 0.477s
 6. Hannes van Asseldonk    Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m18.011s  + 0.567s
 7. Pietro Fantin           Carlin Dallara-VW        1m18.072s  + 0.628s
 8. Felix Serralles         Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m18.283s  + 0.839s
 9. Pipo Derani             Fortec Dallara-Merc      1m18.737s  + 1.293s
10. Fahmi Ilyas             Double R Dallara-Merc    1m18.798s  + 1.354s
11. Nick McBride            T-Sport Dallara-Nissan   1m18.989s  + 1.545s
12. Geoff Uhrhane           Double R Dallara-Merc    1m19.112s  + 1.668s
13. Spike Goddard           T-Sport Dallara-Mugen*   1m20.129s  + 2.685s
14. Duvashen Padayachee     Double R Dallara-Mugen*  1m21.356s  + 3.912s

* National class
** Time disallowed for disrespecting track limits

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