Round Five of the 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport season got underway in South Africa this afternoon with the Netherlands’ Jeroen Bleekemolen and Monaco’s Clivio Piccione on pole position for tomorrow’s Go-GP.Org A1GP Gauteng, South Africa races.
Bleekemolen made use of his PowerBoost in the second segment of Sprint qualifying to record a 1m 27.717 lap, 0.355s ahead of Portugal’s Filipe Albuquerque. Reigning champions Switzerland will start third with Neel Jani behind the wheel.
Qualifying for the Feature race came to an early end after Brazil‘s Felipe Guimarães lost the back end of his car and ended in the tyre wall bringing out the red flag. Monaco took its first ever pole position in its debut season with Malaysia’ Fairuz Fauzy alongside him on the front row. New Zealand’s Earl Bamber will start third.
Local South African driver Adrian Zaugg will start eighth and sixteenth.
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