Jani takes sprint and feature pole

Jani's superiority around Sepang became even more evident in qualifying. He had an answer for everyone in the sprint race sessions, taking the pole by a couple of tenths. But it was his feature race qualifying lap that will have really demoralized his rivals.

His lap from the first part of feature qualifying was enough for pole, but Jani put in a killer late lap in the second session - effectively just for fun. It was about a second faster than Oliver Jarvis in the Team Great Britain car.

"The car was perfect," said Jani. "We kept improving it, but even for me the last lap was a surprise! I was trying to take it easy, so maybe that's the secret to going faster!"

Team France's Loic Duval was best of the rest in qualifying for the sprint race, with Jarvis third despite a mistake in the first part of the session causing him to take a conservative approach in the second. Both admitted that they could never have come close to matching Jani's final lap time in feature qualifying.

Team Germany rookie Michael Ammermuller continued his good work this weekend by taking fourth for the sprint and third for the feature. And Canadian rookie Robert Wickens also impressed, qualifying fifth for the sprint.

Home team Malaysia's struggle went on, with Alex Yoong pronouncing himself clueless as to where the lack of pace was coming from.

Sprint qualifying:

Pos  Driver              Team            Time
 1.  Neel Jani           Switzerland     1:49.003
 2.  Loic Duval          France          1:49.072  + 0.069
 3.  Oliver Jarvis       Great Britain   1:50.677  + 1.674
 4.  M. Ammermuller      Germany         1:49.976  + 0.973
 5.  Robert Wickens      Canada          1:50.560  + 1.557
 6.  Jonny Reid          New Zealand     1:50.677  + 1.674
 7.  Sergio Jimenez      Brazil          1:50.326  + 1.323
 8.  Adrian Zaugg        South Africa    1:50.362  + 1.359
 9.  Cheng Cong Fu       China           1:50.601  + 1.598
10.  J. Bleekemolen      Netherlands     1:49.874  + 0.871
11.  J. Summerton        USA             1:52.872  + 3.869
12.  Ian Dyk             Australia       1:51.732  + 2.729
13.  Adam Carroll        Ireland         2:06.063  +17.060
14.  N. Karthikeyan      India           1:50.700  + 1.697
15.  Joao Urbano         Portugal        1:51.452  + 2.449
16.  M. Jourdain         Mexico          1:52.834  + 3.831
17.  Erik Janis          Czech Republic  1:52.597  + 3.594
18.  Enrico Toccacelo    Italy           1:51.239  + 2.236
19.  Alex Yoong          Malaysia        1:52.415  + 3.412
20.  Chris Alajajian     Lebanon         1:50.871  + 1.868
21.  Satrio Hermanto     Indonesia       1:52.614  + 3.611
22.  Adam Khan           Pakistan        2:28.584  +39.581

Feature qualifying:

Pos  Driver              Team            Time
 1.  Neel Jani           Switzerland     1:48.425
 2.  Oliver Jarvis       Great Britain   1:49.324  + 0.899
 3.  M. Ammermuller      Germany         1:49.293  + 0.868
 4.  Loic Duval          France          1:48.807  + 0.382
 5.  J. Bleekemolen      Netherlands     1:49.694  + 1.269
 6.  Sergio Jimenez      Brazil          1:50.000  + 1.575
 7.  Adam Carroll        Ireland         1:49.248  + 0.823
 8.  Cheng Cong Fu       China           1:49.644  + 1.219
 9.  Adrian Zaugg        South Africa    1:49.637  + 1.212
10.  Jonny Reid          New Zealand     1:49.600  + 1.175
11.  N. Karthikeyan      India           1:49.797  + 1.372
12.  Robert Wickens      Canada          1:49.642  + 1.217
13.  J. Summerton        USA             1:49.818  + 1.393
14.  Ian Dyk             Australia       1:50.912  + 2.487
15.  Alex Yoong          Malaysia        1:50.102  + 1.677
16.  Erik Janis          Czech Republic  1:50.020  + 1.595
17.  João Urbano         Portugal        1:50.163  + 1.738
18.  Chris Alajajian     Lebanon         1:50.178  + 1.753
19.  Enrico Toccacelo    Italy           1:50.408  + 1.983
20.  Satrio Hermanto     Indonesia       1:51.335  + 2.910
21.  M. Jourdain         Mexico          1:50.869  + 2.444
22.  Adam Khan           Pakistan        1:51.670  + 3.245