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Evans beats title rival Vainio to pole in dry qualifying session at Silverstone

Mitch Evans will start race seven of the 2012 GP3 Series at Silverstone from pole position in his MW Arden-run car

The Kiwi nailed a stunning lap of 1m51.892s around Silverstone, which was over 0.3 seconds fastest than his opposition, led by his title rival Aaro Vainio of Lotus GP. Evans's second pole in succession earns him four points, which means he doubles his point lead over Vainio from four to eight.

Vainio was just 0.017s quicker than Carlin's Antonio Felix da Costa. Arden's Mathias Laine will join him on the second row, followed by the remaining Lotus-run cars of Connor Daly and Daniel Abt.

Valencia race two winner Patric Niederhauser suffered a torrid session, spinning at Club and only managing 19th on the grid.

Pos  Driver                  Team       Time       Gap
 1.  Mitch Evans             MW Arden   1m51.892s
 2.  Aaro Vainio             Lotus      1m52.216s  + 0.324s
 3.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Carlin     1m52.233s  + 0.341s
 4.  Matias Laine            MW Arden   1m52.332s  + 0.440s
 5.  Conor Daly              Lotus      1m52.519s  + 0.627s
 6.  Daniel Abt              Lotus      1m52.543s  + 0.651s
 7.  Kevin Ceccon            Ocean      1m52.572s  + 0.680s
 8.  Will Buller             Carlin     1m52.648s  + 0.756s
 9.  Kotaro Sakurai          Status     1m52.807s  + 0.915s
10.  David Fumanelli         MW Arden   1m52.921s  + 1.029s
11.  Tamas Pal Kiss          Atech CRS  1m52.930s  + 1.038s
12.  Alex Brundle            Carlin     1m53.133s  + 1.241s
13.  Tio Ellinas             Manor      1m53.536s  + 1.644s
14.  Facu Regalia            Jenzer     1m53.549s  + 1.657s
15.  Giovanni Venturini      Trident    1m53.624s  + 1.732s
16.  Vicky Piria             Trident    1m53.769s  + 1.877s
17.  Alice Powell            Status     1m53.852s  + 1.960s
18.  Robert Visoiu           Jenzer     1m53.861s  + 1.969s
19.  Patric Niederhauser     Jenzer     1m53.893s  + 2.001s
20.  Dmitry Suranovich       Manor      1m54.324s  + 2.432s
21.  Antonio Spavone         Trident    1m54.339s  + 2.447s
22.  Fabiano Machado         Manor      1m54.427s  + 2.535s
23.  Fabio Gamberini         Atech CRS  1m55.175s  + 3.283s
24.  Robert Cregan           Ocean      1m55.363s  + 3.471s
25.  Marlon Stockinger       Status     1m55.711s  + 3.819s
26.  Ethen Ringel            Atech CRS  1m59.371s  + 7.479s
27.  Carmen Jorda            Ocean      1m59.989s  + 8.097s

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