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Farfus grabs another pole at Brno

Augusto Farfus followed up his first win of the year last time out at Valencia by claiming his third pole position of the season for tomorrow's first race at Brno

The Brazilian pipped fellow BMW driver Andy Priaulx to the top spot by just 0.040s in the final qualifying showdown, as the pair enjoyed an advantage of a couple of tenths over their nearest rival.

"Me and Andy are quite close, we have a similar package so it's always very special to achieve a good lap with no mistakes," said Farfus.

"BMW has done a good job to put three cars in the first three places and hopefully we can have a dry race to do another good job tomorrow."

That was Alex Zanardi, who made it a BMW 1-2-3 and was himself half a second quicker than anyone else. Nicola Larini was the top non-BMW, taking fourth on the grid in his Chevrolet Cruze, while Rickard Rydell was the best of the SEATs in fifth.

Gabriele Tarquini was the only other SEAT to make it through to the 10-car Q2 shootout and will start sixth. Jorg Muller, Alain Menu, Sergio Hernandez and Felix Porteiro completed the top 10.

The remaining three works SEATs missed Q2 and will line up from 11th to 13th, with Tiago Monteiro ahead of Jordi Gene and Yvan Muller, with Rob Huff 14th in the third Chevrolet.

Stefano D'Aste is Porteiro's nearest independent class rival in 15th, and will share the eighth row of the grid with Tom Coronel's SEAT Leon.

Pos Driver               Car            Q1             Q2
 1. Augusto Farfus       BMW            2m09.644s      2m09.590s
 2. Andy Priaulx         BMW            2m10.424s      2m09.630s
 3. Alex Zanardi         BMW            2m10.601s      2m09.862s
 4. Nicola Larini        Chevrolet      2m10.604s      2m10.327s
 5. Rickard Rydell       SEAT           2m10.628s      2m10.371s
 6. Gabriele Tarquini    SEAT           2m10.663s      2m10.617s
 7. Jorg Muller          BMW            2m10.730s      2m10.661s
 8. Alain Menu           Chevrolet      2m10.822s      2m10.714s
 9. Sergio Hernandez     BMW            2m10.826s      2m10.996s
10. Felix Porteiro       BMW            2m10.981s      2m11.011s
11. Tiago Monteiro       SEAT           2m11.020s  
12. Jordi Gene           SEAT           2m11.317s  
13. Yvan Muller          SEAT           2m11.320s  
14. Robert Huff          Chevrolet      2m11.391s  
15. Stefano D'Aste       BMW            2m11.504s  
16. Tom Coronel          SEAT           2m11.851s  
17. Franz Engstler       BMW            2m11.895s  
18. Vito Postiglione     BMW            2m12.141s  
19. Marin Colak          SEAT           2m12.469s  
20. Tim Coronel          SEAT           2m12.490s  
21. Tom Boardman         SEAT           2m13.048s  
22. Jaap van Lagen       Lada           2m13.371s  
23. Kristian Poulsen     BMW            2m13.808s  
24. Kirill Ladygin       Lada           2m14.033s 
25. Viktor Shapovalov    Lada           2m14.257s 

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