Nasr dominates Snetterton qualifying

The Brazilian admitted to "not getting my lap together" on his first set of tyres, but put that right on his second set to knock Carlin team-mate Kevin Magnussen off the top spot by over half a second.

The Dane, who dominated the first half of the session and set four times quick enough for pole on his first set of tyres, responded to Nasr's charge, but fell short in taking pole for tomorrow's 40-minute feature race by 0.339 seconds.

Magnussen's second best time (set on his final lap of the session) looked good for the consolation prize of race one pole, but Nasr eclipsed him by just 0.024s at the death to steal that away from his rival as well.

Rupert-Svendsen Cook (second fastest to Nasr in practice yesterday) carried that strong form into qualifying and set his best lap of the weekend on his last lap of the session to go third fastest. His second best time was only good enough to start fifth in today's first race though.

Hitech's Riki Christodoulou produced his best qualifying performance of the season so far to go fourth overall. He will start third for today's first race after setting a second best time within half a tenth of his quickest effort.

Carlin team-mates Carlos Huertas and Jazeman Jaafar (recovering from gearbox problems in practice) rounded out the top six, while Hitech's Pietro Fantin was the last man to lap below 1m40s in going seventh fastest overall.

Double R's Pipo Derani, Fortec rookie Harry Tincknell, and Sino Vision's Hywel Lloyd rounded out the top 10.

Pos  Driver                Team/Car                  Time       Gap
 1.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.147s  
 2.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.486s  + 0.339s
 3.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.650s  + 0.503s
 4.  Riki Christodoulou    Hitech Dallara-VW         1m39.810s  + 0.663s
 5.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.817s  + 0.670s
 6.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.883s  + 0.736s
 7.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech Dallara-VW         1m39.990s  + 0.843s
 8.  Pipo Derani           Double R Dallara-Merc     1m40.088s  + 0.941s
 9.  Harry Tincknell       Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m40.142s  + 0.995s
10.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision Dallara-Merc  1m40.201s  + 1.054s
11.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport Dallara-VW        1m40.305s  + 1.158s
12.  William Buller        Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m40.339s  + 1.192s
13.  Scott Pye             Double R Dallara-Merc     1m40.400s  + 1.253s
14.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m40.657s  + 1.500s
15.  Yann Cunha            T-Sport Dallara-VW        1m40.796s  + 1.649s
16.  Jack Harvey           Carlin Dallara-VW         1m40.978s  + 1.831s
17.  Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m41.190s  + 2.043s
18.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision Dallara-Merc  1m41.510s  + 2.363s
19.  Bart Hylkema          T-Sport Dallara-Mugen     1m42.400s  + 3.253s
20.  Kotaru Sakurai        Hitech Dallara-Mugen      1m43.620s  + 4.473s

* Buller will start 17th due to a 10-place penalty from Monza

Race three grid:

Pos  Driver                Team/Car                  Time       Gap
 1.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.549s
 2.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.573s  + 0.024s
 3.  Riki Christodoulou    Hitech Dallara-VW         1m39.842s  + 0.293s
 4.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.845s  + 0.296s
 5.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin Dallara-VW         1m39.919s  + 0.370s
 6.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech Dallara-VW         1m40.065s  + 0.516s
 7.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin Dallara-VW         1m40.111s  + 0.562s
 8.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision Dallara-Merc  1m40.218s  + 0.669s
 9.  Pipo Derani           Double R Dallara-Merc     1m40.411s  + 0.862s
10.  William Buller        Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m40.415s  + 0.866s
11.  Harry Tincknell       Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m40.515s  + 0.966s
12.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport Dallara-VW        1m40.571s  + 1.022s
13.  Scott Pye             Double R Dallara-Merc     1m40.603s  + 1.054s    
14.  Yann Cunha            T-Sport Dallara-VW        1m40.852s  + 1.303s
15.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m41.117s  + 1.568s
16.  Jack Harvey           Carlin Dallara-VW         1m41.229s  + 1.680s
17.  Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec Dallara-Merc       1m41.622s  + 2.073s
18.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision Dallara-Merc  1m41.631s  + 2.082s
19.  Bart Hylkema          T-Sport Dallara-Mugen     1m42.531s  + 2.982s
20.  Kotaru Sakurai        Hitech Dallara-Mugen      1m43.836s  + 4.287s