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Ricciardo on pole-position at Brands Hatch

New champion Daniel Ricciardo eased to his fifth Cooper Tires British F3 pole position of the season at Brands Hatch this morning, eclipsing the best his Carlin Motorsport team-mate Max Chilton could manage by three-tenths of a second. Ricciardo's pole time was 1m 17.207s, some eight-hundredths inside the 2008 pole mark set by his Red Bull/Carlin predecessor and last year's champion, Jaime Alguersuari.

"Not a bad session," said Volkswagen man Ricciardo. "I can't be too disappointed with the pole, but I was hoping to break into the 1m 16s... Maybe in the next session!"

Riki Christodoulou emerged the leading Mercedes-powered runner, the Midlander bagging third on the grid for Fortec Motorsport, just ahead of Raikkonen Robertson trio Marcus Ericsson, Carlos Huertas and Daisuke Nakajima. A spin from the latter at Paddock Hill Bend caused a red flag half-way through the session but the Japanese driver emerged unscathed from the incident.

Gabriel Dias was the quickest of the National Class runners for T-Sport, half a second clear of Carlin's Joe Ghanem and the 2009 National Champion, Daniel McKenzie.

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