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Turvey pinches pole from Hartley

Oliver Turvey clinched pole position for this weekend's second British Formula 3 race on the streets of Bucharest

Turvey, who finished second to Brendon Hartley in yesterday's race, pinched pole from the New Zealander by 0.003s today with his last lap of the session.

The session was broken up into three parts thanks to a couple of errors at the fast right kink at the back of the circuit.

Atte Mustonen was first up, hitting the wall hard as he slid sideways through the corner just five minutes into the session.

After the restart, Hartley and Turvey swapped the top spot back and forth as the times dropped from high to low 1:12s

Sam Abay was next into the wall at the right kink, altough he did at least manage to drag his mangled car off the track and out of harm's way.

But it was only three more minutes until Steven Guerrero clouted the wall in the same place - for the second time this weekend - and the session had to be stopped again with his car broadside in the middle of the road.

That left just four minutes of qualifying at the end, and Turvey was the only one of the front runners to improve his time - lapping just three thousandths of a second quicker than Hartley.

"We found a little more time this morning, and I thought before the session we had the pace to get pole," said Turvey. "I knew I had to really push in the final few laps when the session restarted.

He added that he will try to put the championship out of his mind for now - he leads by 17 points with just three races left: "I'm just aiming to get a good start and win the race this afternoon, I'm not thinking any further ahead than that at the moment."

Jaime Alguersuari completed another Carlin Motorsport clean sweep of the top three, with John Martin fourth for Double R.

Hitech Racing filled row three with Max Chilton and Walter Grubmuller producing their best efforts of the weekend.

Esteban Guerrieri was top Mygale in seventh, ahead of Marcus Ericsson, while Abay's best lap before his crash put him ninth. Sergio Perez completed the top ten for T-Sport.

Newly-crowned National Class champion Jay Bridger took the class pole, ahead of Hywel Lloyd. Guerrero was third despite his accident and Stefan Wilson completed a quartet of National cars from 14th to 17th places.

Pos Driver             Team        Car   Time         Gap
 1. Oliver Turvey      Carlin      D/M   1:12.036
 2. Brendon Hartley    Carlin      D/M   1:12.039  +0.003
 3. Jaime Alguersuari  Carlin      D/M   1:12.535  +0.499
 4. John Martin        Double R    D/M   1:12.959  +0.923
 5. Max Chilton        Hitech      D/M   1:12.995  +0.959
 6. Walter Grubmuller  Hitech      D/M   1:13.016  +0.980
 7. Esteban Guerrieri  Ultimate    M/M   1:13.054  +1.018
 8. Marcus Ericsson    Fortec      D/M   1:13.254  +1.218
 9. Sam Abay           Carlin      D/M   1:13.435  +1.399
10. Sergio Perez       T-Sport     D/H   1:13.439  +1.403
11. Michael Devaney    Ultimate    M/M   1:13.506  +1.470
12. Oliver Oakes       Eurotek     D/M   1:13.781  +1.745
13. Ricardo Teixeira   Ultimate    M/M   1:13.801  +1.765
14. Jay Bridger        Fluid (N)   D/H   1:13.879  +1.843
15. Hywel Lloyd        CF (N)      D/H   1:14.143  +2.107
16. Steven Guerrero    T-Sport (N) D/H   1:14.377  +2.341
17. Stefan Wilson      Fluid (N)   D/H   1:14.589  +2.553
18. Henry Arundel      Double R    D/M   1:14.660  +2.624
19. Philip Major       Fortec      D/M   1:15.133  +3.097
20. Salman Al-Khalifa  T-Sport (N) D/H   1:15.135  +3.099
21. Atte Mustonen      Double R    D/M   1:16.589  +4.553

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