Sainz takes the pole in extremis

On Saturday at the Motorland Aragon circuit within the Spanish stage of the World Series by Renault in Formula qualifying Renault 3.5. Heats accompanied sunny weather, the morning temperature was about 15 degrees, asphalt warmed up to 20 degrees.

At the beginning of the qualification drivers did not seek to attack immediately, but gradually grew results lap, and after about 15 minutes of the first half-hour session of the line took Oliver Rowland, partner Sergey Sirotkin of team Fortec, with the result of 1 min. 41.808 seconds.

However, soon Carlos Sainz Jr. improved this time: 1 min. 41.715 seconds. Sirotkin consistently been in the top ten, but much closer to the leaders appeared another Russian driver, Nicholay Martsenko, who drive for Comtec Racing, a long time occupied the 5th position in the table is constantly updated results. Moreover, closer to the last five-minute he showed the best time, ahead of nearest rival by more than half a second. Moreover, this opponent at some point was Sirotkin, although the gap Sergey could not resist.

In the final phase of qualifying the situation has changed: the best time showed Carlos Sainz, driving range for 1 min. 40.418 seconds, Rowland will start the second, Martsenko resist on third position, behind pole position time only 0.056 seconds. Sirotkin rolled on the 9th line of the protocol session. It is interesting that Will Stevens, one of the leaders of the championship, was only 15th.

Roman Mavlanov, in Saturday’s race will start from the 19th position. His team-mate Spaniard Roberto Mehri showed 4th time.

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