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Engel scores pole at Monza

Maro Engel continued from the good start to the weekend in this morning's Free Practice session to secure his second Pole Position of the season. The German finished the 30-miniute qualifying period 0.052 seconds ahead of Stephen Jelley and a further 0.072 seconds ahead Atte Mustonen.

The National Class pole was secured by Sergio Perez. 0.251 seconds ahead of his championship rival 'Frankie' Cheng, with Hamad Al Fardan in third.

The early pace was set by Sam Bird who was the first driver of the weekend to post a sub 1minute 47 second lap with a 1m46.546 on lap 4 and then went even faster a lap later, posting a 1m46.392. After 10 minutes Bird was in provisional pole position from Engel and Mustonen.

After seven laps Bird returned to the pits, thinking he'd done enough but a lap later Jelley put in a 1m46.293 lap, 0.099 seconds faster than the Carlin driver. Atte Mustonen then followed his Double R teammate and demoted Bird to 3rd with a 46.365. However at the same time Maro Engel had set the fastest time of the session for sector 2 and as he exited the Parabolica he was right behind the Hitech Dallara of Walter Grubmuller. The German used the Austrian's tow and crossed the line in 1m46.241, which wasn't beaten for the rest of the session.

Championship leader Marko Asmer improved his best time towards the end of the session and will start Round 9 in 5th place, just ahead of Sebastian Hohenthal. Greg Mansell will head the 4th row, just ahead of Jonathan Kennard. Carlin teammates Niall Breen and Alberto Valerio rounded out the top 10.

Francesco Castellaci suffered his second engine failure of the weekend on his first lap of the qualifying session and failed to set a time. The ADR mechanics are now working hard to get the car ready for the second qualifying session at 17:30 (local time)

The top 18 set times inside the British F3 lap record set by 2005 Champion Alvaro Parente (1m48.149) but this record will stand until some beats it in one of the two races tomorrow.

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