Glock takes pole for home race
GP2 Series leader Timo Glock did his best to get his title campaign back on track at the Nurburgring on Friday afternoon by taking pole position for round ten of the season
Glock, who has failed to score in the last four races with iSport, was embroiled in a tight scrap with title rival Lucas di Grassi of ART Grand Prix for much of the 30-minute session.
But on his final run, Glock managed to find a 0.560-second advantage, having only been fractionally quicker for the previous 25 minutes.
Di Grassi, who is second in the championship despite not being one of the nine drivers to score a victory this year, will start second, over a tenth clear of Giorgio Pantano (Campos).
Adrian Zaugg enjoyed his best ever GP2 qualifying session to start fourth for Arden - although teammate Bruno Senna struggled down in 16th.
Silverstone feature race winner Andreas Zuber will start fifth for iSport, but he will be rueing an off at the Bit-Kehre that appeared to take the edge off his fresh tyres.
Zuber will start alongside Kazuki Nakajima (DAMS), who deposed Silverstone hero Adam Carroll (FMS) from row three late on.
Carroll will start seventh, ahead of Pastor Maldonado (Trident), Super Nova teammates Mike Conway and Luca Filippi, and series returnee Sebastien Buemi (ART Grand Prix).
Of the other comeback drivers, Ernesto Viso (Racing Engineering) will start 19th and Nicolas Lapierre (DAMS) 21st.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Glock iSport International 1:40.977 13 2. di Grassi ART Grand Prix 1:41.537 + 0.560 13 3. Pantano Campos Grand Prix 1:41.673 + 0.696 13 4. Zaugg Arden International 1:41.721 + 0.744 13 5. Zuber iSport International 1:41.757 + 0.780 13 6. Nakajima DAMS 1:41.830 + 0.853 16 7. Carroll FMS International 1:41.866 + 0.889 11 8. Maldonado Trident Racing 1:41.963 + 0.986 15 9. Conway Super Nova International 1:41.964 + 0.987 11 10. Filippi Super Nova International 1:42.075 + 1.098 6 11. Buemi ART Grand Prix 1:42.155 + 1.178 13 12. Soucek DPR 1:42.348 + 1.371 14 13. Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 1:42.356 + 1.379 15 14. Hirate Trident Racing 1:42.368 + 1.391 13 15. Villa Racing Engineering 1:42.395 + 1.418 14 16. Senna Arden International 1:42.497 + 1.520 14 17. Negrao Minardi Piquet Sports 1:42.529 + 1.552 12 18. Petrov Campos Grand Prix 1:42.775 + 1.798 13 19. Viso Racing Engineering 1:42.860 + 1.883 13 20. Yamamoto BCN Competicion 1:42.860 + 1.883 13 21. Lapierre DAMS 1:42.898 + 1.921 13 22. Tung BCN Competicion 1:42.976 + 1.999 15 23. Garcia Durango 1:42.983 + 2.006 14 24. Tahinci FMS International 1:43.563 + 2.586 12 25. Chandhok Durango 1:43.862 + 2.885 12 26. Bakkerud DPR 1:44.099 + 3.122 11
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