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Kubica on Pole for Race 2

Championship leader Robert Kubica secured his first pole position of the season in the second World Series by Renault race at Le Mans

The Team Epsilon driver lapped the dry Le Mans track in 1:23.665 to take the top spot.

Kubica said: "The Championship point I get is what is important, it is not really that important to be on pole. Anything can happen in this series, as I showed at Valencia when I retired from the lead on the last lap."

Kubica will line up alongside Carlin Motorsport's Will Power. The Australian secured the front row spot after topping the first session, despite recorded the third fastest time overall.

The average of the five fastest times of each session was outside the new 0.3 per cent window for determining the grid on times alone, required by revised sporting regulations. Therefore all those in Kubica's session will line up as in the previous system on the left-hand side of the grid, and those in Power's slower session will line up on the right.

Felix Porteiro will start third after finishing less than a tenth of a second off teammate Kubica. German Marcus Winkelhock continued to show strongly after his race one pole position and will start fourth.

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