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Jan Magnussen claims superior Aarhus pole position

Jan Magnussen headed a LM Racing 1-2 in his TCR Denmark return during qualifying at the Aarhus street circuit.

The Cupra driver claimed pole with 1:14.513, beating team-mate Nicolai Sylvest by a massive seven tenths of a second.

Points leader Kasper Jensen was third fastest, almost half a second behind Sylvest.

Casper Elgaard was fastest of the Peugeot 308TCR drivers in fourth position ahead of manufacturer colleague Michael Markussen.

Jacob Mathiassen rounded off the top six for Insight Racing with a time of 1:16.208.

The first race of the Aarhus weekend starts at 17:05 CEST today.