Vettel takes first pole of the season
Sebastian Vettel showed no ill effects from his Spa-Francorchamps Renault World Series shunt on his return to the F3 Euroseries, setting pole position for Saturday's opening race at the Nurburgring
Vettel (ASM), who almost lost his right index finger in the shunt last month, outpaced fellow Red Bull-backed driver Sebastien Buemi (Mucke Motorsport) by 0.048 seconds to take his first F3 pole of 2006.
"With the first set of tyres, it wasn't great," said Vettel. "After that, we changed the balance of my car a little and all of a sudden I was fast enough to take pole."
Buemi said: "Unfortunately, my car wasn't perfect with the second set of tyres. Otherwise, I could have been on pole. Five hundredths of a second is very little."
Championship dominator Paul di Resta was third fastest in his ASM car, ahead of top rookie Jonathan Summerton (Mucke).
Giedo van der Garde (ASM) was fifth fastest, with Kohei Hirate and Esteban Guerrieri leading the Manor Motorsport charge in sixth and seventh.
Pos Driver Make Time 1. Sebastian Vettel Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.104 2. Sebastien Buemi Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.152 + 0.048 3. Paul Di Resta Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.326 + 0.222 4. J.Summerton Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.389 + 0.285 5. G.van der Garde Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.408 + 0.304 6. Kohei Hirate Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.443 + 0.339 7. E.Guerrieri Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.518 + 0.414 8. R.Antinucci Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.571 + 0.467 9. Michael Herck Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.575 + 0.471 10. Kamui Kobayashi Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.749 + 0.645 11. Kazuki Nakajima Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.770 + 0.666 12. Alejandro Nunez Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.979 + 0.875 13. Romain Grosjean Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.993 + 0.889 14. Paolo Nocera Dallara/Mercedes 1:23.995 + 0.891 15. Peter Elkmann Dallara/Opel 1:24.162 + 1.058 16. Guillaume Moreau Dallara/Mercedes 1:24.197 + 1.093 17. Charlie Kimball Dallara/Mercedes 1:24.243 + 1.139 18. Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara/Mercedes 1:24.386 + 1.282 19. Filip Salaquarda Dallara/Opel 1:24.481 + 1.377 20. Tim Sandtler Dallara/Mercedes 1:24.533 + 1.429 21. Natacha Gachnang Dallara/Opel 1:25.255 + 2.151 22. Julian Theobald Dallara/Mercedes 1:26.481 + 3.377 23. Anthony Janiec Dallara/Renault 1:26.949 + 3.845 24. Bruno Fechner Dallara/Mercedes 1:27.250 + 4.146 25. Cemil Cipa Dallara/Opel 1:27.318 + 4.214 26. Julia Kuhn Dallara/Opel 1:27.349 + 4.245
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