Carroll scores maiden feature pole
Adam Carroll secured his second pole position in as many rounds by topping the final qualifying segment for Sunday's A1GP feature race at Sepang
The Team Ireland driver, who won the sprint race from pole position at Chengdu two weeks ago, used his one lap with the power boost in qualifying to seal his first feature race pole.
"I wanted that one quite badly," said Carroll. "That's when I chose to use the boost and it was a good lap."
Danny Watts was second fastest for Team Great Britain, two tenths behind Carroll, with Daniel Morad scoring by far the best ever qualifying performance for Team Lebanon in third place.
Fairuz Fauzy took fourth for Team Malaysia on home soil with Filipe Albuquerque (Portugal) and Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands) completing the top six.
Marco Andretti scored his best result yet for Team USA, qualifying eighth for the feature race.
Sprint race pole sitter Neel Jani's string of pole positions at Sepang came to an end when he qualified only 16th. The Swiss driver used his power boost in the earlier session for the sprint race and is left well down the grid for the feature.
"With the new rule you can use the push to pass only on one lap," said Jani. "I used mine in Q2 and some of the others used theirs in Q4 to be ahead, so it was pretty much clear that I wouldn't get that one."
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Adam Carroll Ireland 1:47.124 2. Danny Watts Great Britain 1:47.340 +0.216 3. Daniel Morad Lebanon 1:47.645 +0.521 4. Fairuz Fauzy Malaysia 1:47.648 +0.524 5. Filipe Albuquerque Portugal 1:47.680 +0.556 6. Jeroen Bleekemolen Netherlands 1:47.825 +0.701 7. Narain Karthikeyan India 1:47.848 +0.724 8. Marco Andretti USA 1:47.866 +0.742 9. Loic Duval France 1:47.993 +0.869 10. Ho-Pin Tung China 1:48.126 +1.002 11. Clivio Piccione Monaco 1:48.242 +1.118 12. Felipe Guimaraes Brazil 1:48.323 +1.199 13. John Martin Australia 1:48.586 +1.462 14. Satrio Hermanto Indonesia 1:48.839 +1.715 15. Earl Bamber New Zealand 1:48.866 +1.742 16. Neel Jani Switzerland 1:48.980 +1.856 17. Adrian Zaugg South Africa 1:49.061 +1.937 18. David Garza Mexico 1:49.537 +2.413 19. Edoardo Piscopo Italy 1:49.885 +2.761 20. Jin-Woo Hwang Korea no time
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