Filippi: advantage should be bigger

Filippi took pole by over two tenths of a second from championship leader Timo Glock of iSport, but the Italian is adamant he could have doubled the advantage had he not been hampered by DPR's Andy Soucek on what he felt was his best lap.

"That lap was fantastic until the final corners," said Filippi. "I was really pushing and was fastest in the first two sectors, and then I saw the traffic.

"I didn't want to lose the lap, so I kept attacking and it was good enough for pole anyway, even though he slowed me.

"After that, it was difficult to match those first two sector times again. So, on my final pole lap, I did okay first and second sectors and a very fast third sector. If you'd put all my best sectors together, I'd be on pole by maybe four-tenths."

Filippi, who crashed out in the last round at Hungary at over 100mph following a suspension failure, thinks he can take his qualifying speed into a race situation tomorrow.

"My feeling is that the car will be consistent," he said. "We've always seemed to have silly little problems in qualifying before, but the potential has always been there to be quickest.

"I feel very relaxed about the races."