Sato on pole at Croft
Takuma Sato is on pole for British F3 race at Croft. The rising Japanese star lapped the North Yorkshire circuit with a time of 1m13.773s. Tomas Scheckter, fresh from his outing in the McLaren Jr F3000 last weekend, starts the race from second - his qualifying lap was just five hundredths of a second slower than than polesittter Sato
Danish driver Niclas Kiesa starts from third, with Ben Collins rounding off the top four.
Championship leader Antonio Pizzonia has had a poor weekend thus far. He was down in 10th place after the first qualifying session, but after an engine change, the Brazilian managed to haul himself up to fifth.
Full qualifying times
T Sato 1m13.773s
T Scheckter 1m13.830s
N Kiesa 1m14.087s
B Collins 1m14.131s
A Pizzonia 1m14.341s
M Ambrose 1m14.362s
G Bruni 1m14.372s
A Priaulx 1m14.406s
M Pavlovic 1m14.455s
A Kirkaldy 1m14.509s
M O'Connell 1m14.523s
M Davies 1m14.532s
N Karthikeyan 1m14.590s
M Brentwood 1m14.627s
G Paffett 1m14.787s
T Sriachavanon 1m15.422s
W Carway 1m15.537s
C Fleming 1m15.576s
R Walker 1m16.034s
A Katsumata 1m16.034s
C Colombo 1m16.365s
M Mayall 1m 17.202s
E Buscaglia 1m17.216s
P Hopkins 1m17.624
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