Wickens earns Canada's maiden pole
Robert Wickens earned Team Canada their first ever A1GP pole position with a cracking late effort in the second of the sprint race qualifying sessions
South African Adrian Zaugg caused chaos in the middle of the session when he spun, bringing out a local yellow. This severely compromised a number of runners, especially as the first session had been red flagged after New Zealand's Jonny Reid spun with just three minutes left on the clock.
Bruno Junqueira narrowly missed out on snatching the pole just seconds after Wickens set his time, but second place was Brazil's best qualifying since Nelson Piquet Jr raced for the team in season one of the series.
Reid atoned for his first-session error by taking third, while Oliver Jarvis held pole for a while before being bumped to fourth for Team GBR. Neel Jani will line up fifth for Switzerland, with session one pacesetter Michael Ammermuller sixth for Germany.
Zaugg had a nightmare, failing to set a time, and will line up on the final row with Adam Carroll, who also failed to complete a fast lap after a technical problem with the Team Ireland car.
Sprint Race Qualifying
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Robert Wickens Canada 1:18.150 2. Bruno Junqueira Brazil 1:18.168 0.018 3. Jonny Reid New Zealand 1:18.229 0.079 4. Oliver Jarvis Great Britain 1:18.410 0.260 5. Neel Jani Switzerland 1:18.470 0.320 6. Michael Ammermuller Germany 1:18.650 0.500 7. Jeroen Bleekemolen Netherlands 1:18.717 0.567 8. Fairuz Fauzy Malaysia 1:19.091 0.941 9. Narain Karthikeyan India 1:19.213 1.063 10. Filipe Albuquerque Portugal 1:19.224 1.074 11. Cheng Cong Fu China 1:19.261 1.111 12. John Martin Australia 1:19.423 1.273 13. David Garza Mexico 1:19.812 1.662 14. Jonathan Summerton USA 1:19.815 1.665 15. Adam Khan Pakistan 1:20.204 2.054 16. Edoardo Piscopo Italy 1:20.294 2.144 17. Loic Duval France 1:21.310 3.160 18. Josef Kral Czech Republic 1:21.919 3.769 19. Khalil Beschir Lebanon 1:22.050 3.900 20. Satrio Hermanto Indonesia 1:23.808 5.658 21. Adam Carroll Ireland 22. Adrian Zaugg South Africa
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