Farfus on pole as rain hits qualifying

Augusto Farfus has qualified on pole position ahead of Rob Huff, in a red flag shortened qualifying session as Menu & Tarquini crash out.

In qualifying one, a red flag was thrown to recover the stricken SEAT León of Tiago Monteiro, but as the session resumed for a final lap show down, Monteiro was still able to progress into Q2 as his time was good enough for tenth place, as a fast lap from Norbert Michelisz was enough to dislodge Michael Nykjaer from the top 10.

The rain then descended on the circuit, and the top nine cars (Monteiro’s car had not been recovered), took to the track to set their times.

The Chevrolet’s looked quick in the first two sectors, but in the final sector the BMW’s broke through and took the first two places on the grid initially.

On his second lap, despite the circuit continuing to get more wet, Rob Huff was able to put his Chevrolet Cruze into second place, but on the next lap cars were now falling off the circuit.

Rob Huff slid wide following Yvan Muller off the track as the circuit lost grip, although he drove straight back on, he went straight into the side of team mate Alain Menu.

Elsewhere, Gabriele Tarquini’s SEAT also left the circuit and hit the tyre wall hard, and the red flag was waived with Tarquini and Menu’s cars scattered around the circuit, confirming Augusto Farfus’s first pole since Monza.