Malaysia Qualifies Sixth In Indonesia

Alex in action on Friday in Sentul...(click image to enlarge)

And achieves best qualifying position in the inaugural A1GP championship

Proton sponsored A1 Team Malaysia steered by Alex Yoong qualified on the third row in 6th position from 23 teams at the Sentul circuit which host round 8 of the A1 Grand Prix of Nations in Indonesia.

This result improved on the team's previous best ever qualifying result of seventh achieved in round 5 run in the team's home race in Malaysia last November.

Sessions 1, 2 and 3 of qualifying was run on a drying but slightly damp track with rain threatening to break out. The rain finally fell in small drizzles during the fourth session after most teams have already put in their fastest attempts on new tyres.

A1 Team GB won their maiden pole with Robbie Kerr followed by France with Nicolas Lapiere who had an off in the first session. Mexico was a surprising third followed by Switzerland in fourth and Japan which also achieved their best qualifying position of fifth.

Live telecast by Star Sports and 8TV in Malaysia will commence tomorrow (Sunday) at 2.00pm Malaysian time with the Sprint race starting at 2.30pm and the Feature race at 4.00pm.

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Qualifying Times - A1GP Indonesia, Sentul.

1. Great Britain Robbie Kerr 2min 34.257secs

2. France Nicolas Lapierre 2min 34.477secs

3. Mexico Salvador Duran 2min 34.554secs

4. Switzerland Neel Jani 2min 35.065secs

5. Japan Hayanari Shimoda 2min 35.190secs

6. Malaysia Alex Yoong 2min 35.447secs

7. Ireland Ralph Firman 2min 35.670secs

8. Canada Sean McIntosh 2min 35.685secs

9. South Africa Stephen Simpson 2min 35.750secs

10. New Zealand Matt Halliday 2min 35.797secs

11. Portugal Alvaro Parente 2min 35.808secs

12. Czech Republic Tomas Enge 2min 35.950secs

13. Netherlands Jos Verstappen 2min 36.000secs

14. USA Phil Giebler 2min 36.113secs

15. Germany Timo Scheider 2min 36.319secs

16. Italy Max Busnelli 2min 36.631secs

17. Indonesia Ananda Mikola 2min 36.805secs

18. China Tengyi Jiang 2min 37.313secs

19. Australia Marcus Marshall 2min 37.950secs

20. Lebanon Basil Shaaban 2min 38.275secs

21. Brazil Christian Fittipaldi 2min 38.290secs

22. India Armaan Ebrahim 2min 38.603secs

23. Austria Mathias Lauda 2min 39.229secs