Indonesia - A1GP - Qualifying
A1 Team Great Britain has taken its first-ever pole position for tomorrow`s Sprint race at the Sentul Circuit. Robbie Kerr joins the list of four other drivers over three teams who have secured the front place on the grid for the Sprint race, putting them in prime position to battle for the all important Feature race pole.
"I started on old tyres to learn a bit more about the circuit, and then we had two new sets of tyres for the rest of qualifying which was fantastic," said Kerr. "We made a slight change for the third session which was fantastic and again for the forth session, even though it was damp. I`m looking forward to tomorrow, I have a great opportunity. It`s not easy though, it is a fast circuit and we will have to see what happens."

Nicolas Lapierre made a rare mistake in his first qualifying session spinning off into the gravel. Despite this the five-times winner finished second overall.

"It wasn`t my best lap ever, I made a mistake and went off into the gravel," the Frenchman admitted. "I could have easily have hit the wall but some days are good and today I managed to miss it. So from then I needed to put in a few safe laps. We were going to go out on wet tyres in the final session, but we saw Robbie out on dry tyres, and there is good data to be learnt from experimenting with the tyres."

Salvador Duran, who finished the day third fastest, is hoping to race for A1 Team Mexico in his home country in two weeks time. "You never know, it is a political as well as a racing decision. The team will make the decision and David Martinez may be driving. Even if David does drive I would want to be there to support the team at my home race and I would support David too. It is very difficult though, you don`t even know if you are coming back."

Newcomers to the Series Christian Fittipaldi for A1 Team Brazil and Marcus Marshall for A1 Team Australia placed towards the back of the grid as they familiarised themselves with the A1 race car. Fittipaldi, nephew of A1 Team Brazil`s joint seat holder, Emerson has an especially tough challenge ahead of him as he has not driven a single-seater since he drove in Champ Car in 2002.

Sentul - Sprint race qualification

A1 Team Driver Aggregate

1 Great Robbie Kerr 2.34.257
Britain
2 France Nicolas Lapierre 2.34.477
3 Mexico Salvador Duran 2.34.554
4 Switzerland Neel Jani 2.35.055
5 Japan Hayanari Shimoda 2.35.190
6 Malaysia Alex Yoong 2.35.447
7 Ireland Ralph Firman 2.35.670
8 Canada Sean McIntosh 2.35.685
9 South Africa Stephen Simpson 2.35.750
10 New Zealand Matt Halliday 2.35.797
11 Portugal Alvaro Parente 2.35.808
12 Czech Tomas Enge 2.35.950
Republic
13 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 2.36.000
14 USA Philip Geibler 2.36.113
15 Germany Timo Scheider 2.36.319
16 Italy Max Busnelli 2.36.631
17 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 2.36.805
18 China Tengyi Jiang 2.37.313
19 Australia Marcus Marshall 2.37.950
20 Lebanon Basil Shaaban 2.38.275
21 Brazil Christian 2.38.290
Fittipaldi
22 India Armaan Ebrahim 2.38.603
23 Austria Mathias Lauda 2.39.229

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