Yoong takes crushing Mexico pole
Team Malaysia destroyed the pretenders with an utterly crushing display in qualifying for tomorrow's A1GP event in Mexico City
Their driver Alex Yoong did a good job of hiding his potential during practice, with New Zealand and Great Britain dominating the headlines. But as soon as qualifying started, he registered the weekend's first lap beneath the 1:27 barrier (by over half a second).
Yoong was then never threatened throughout the four-part session. Only Team Germany newcomer Christian Vietoris was also able to post a lap under 1:27, and that still didn't help to get him anywhere close to Yoong on aggregate time.
When the times were totalled up, Vietoris was 0.845 seconds back, the only driver within a second of pole.
Oliver Jarvis (Team GB) battled hard with Vietoris but had to settle for third place on the grid. He will line up alongside home driver Salvador Duran, whose late effort might help bring in a few thousand extra fans on race day.
Aggregrated qualifying times:
Pos Driver Team Agg. time 1. Alex Yoong Malaysia 2:53.138 2. Christian Vietoris Germany 2:53.983 + 0.845 3. Oliver Jarvis Great Britain 2:54.271 + 1.133 4. Salvador Duran Mexico 2:54.705 + 1.567 5. Jean-Karl Vernay France 2:54.820 + 1.682 6. Alvaro Parente Portugal 2:54.865 + 1.727 7. Bruno Junqueira Brazil 2:54.904 + 1.766 8. Jonathan Summerton USA 2:54.918 + 1.780 9. Ian Dyk Australia 2:54.935 + 1.797 10. Enrico Toccacelo Italy 2:55.056 + 1.918 11. Adrian Zaugg South Africa 2:55.071 + 1.933 12. Ho-Pin Tung China 2:55.170 + 2.032 13. Ananda Mikola Indonesia 2:55.223 + 2.085 14. Jonny Reid New Zealand 2:55.358 + 2.220 15. Jarek Janis Czech Republic 2:55.538 + 2.400 16. Renger van der Zande Netherlands 2:55.710 + 2.572 17. Narain Karthikeyan India 2:55.949 + 2.811 18. Marcel Fassler Switzerland 2:56.002 + 2.864 19. James Hinchcliffe Canada 2:56.120 + 2.982 20. Richard Lyons Ireland 2:57.300 + 4.162 21. Allam Khodair Lebanon 2:58.575 + 5.437 22. Nur Ali Pakistan 3:00.239 + 7.101
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