Parente Takes Pole 1 at Silverstone
Alvaro Parente continued his domination of the British Formula Three International Series, by taking pole for the first of Sunday's races at Silverstone
The Portuguese driver currently leads the Championship by a massive 56 points and lapped the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in one minute and 42.722 sseconds, just edging out Hitech Racing's Marko Asmer.
Parente's teammate and title-rival Charlie Kimball will line up third on the grid alongside Fortec Motorsport's Mike Conway. The Lola pairing of Danilo Dirani and Stephen Kane make up the third row, in a qualifying session where the top nine cars were covered by 0.9 seconds.
Kane goes into the weekend knowing he will start tomorrow's race on pole position, because Saturday's race will use the grid from the second cancelled round at Spa. Drivers who did not qualify in that session in April are not eligible to start the race.
Salvador Duran took the National Class pole position for Sunday's first race.
Pos Driver Make-Engine Time Laps 1. Alvaro Parente Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:42.722 9 2. Marko Asmer Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:42.781 + 0.059 12 3. Charlie Kimball Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:42.860 + 0.138 8 4. Mike Conway Dallara Opel Spiess 1:43.257 + 0.535 5 5. Danilo Dirani Lola B05/30 Mugen Honda 1:43.304 + 0.582 8 6. Steven Kane Lola B05/30 Mugen-Honda 1:43.441 + 0.719 10 7. Dan Clarke Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:43.455 + 0.733 9 8. Bruno Senna Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:43.524 + 0.802 9 9. James Walker Dallara F305 Opel Spiess 1:43.703 + 0.981 10 10. Christian Bakkerud Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:43.832 + 1.110 10 11. Ryan Lewis Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:43.835 + 1.113 9 12. Tim Bridgman Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:43.872 + 1.150 11 13. Salvador Duran Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:44.374 + 1.652 5 14. Michael Herck Dallara F305 Opel Spiess 1:44.628 + 1.906 12 15. Jonathan Kennard Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:44.659 + 1.937 12 16. Karl Reindler Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:44.662 + 1.940 13 17. Ronayne O'mahony Dallara F305 Opel Spiess 1:44.774 + 2.052 13 18. Alejandro Nunez Dallara F305 Opel Spiess 1:44.964 + 2.242 14 19. Stephen Jelley Dallara F305 Opel Spiess 1:45.244 + 2.522 9 20. Ben Clucas Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen-Honda 1:45.282 + 2.560 11 21. Charlie Hollings Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen Honda 1:45.332 + 2.610 9 22. Barton Mawer Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:45.667 + 2.945 10 23. Juho Annala Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:45.792 + 3.070 12 24. Keiko Ihara Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda 1:45.987 + 3.265 13 25. Josh Fisher Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:46.813 + 4.091 11 26. Ricardo Teixeira Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:48.443 + 5.721 13 27. Cheong Lou Meng Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:48.459 + 5.737 15 28. Nick Jones Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda 1:51.975 + 9.253 5
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