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Formula European Masters Norisring
Max Verstappen twice on pole position
Max Verstappen claimed the pole positions for the two races on Sunday.
Edited: Jun 28, 2014, 5:05 PM
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Max Verstappen (Van Amersfoort Racing) currently is in great shape: first of all, he won the 16th season round of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship at the 2.3 kilometres long Norisring. Then, in qualifying a few hours later, he claimed the pole positions for the two races on Sunday. For the 17th race of the season, Esteban Ocon (Prema Powerteam), Tom Blomqvist (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin) and Felix Rosenqvist (kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport) will line up behind Verstappen. For the 18th race, Blomqvist, Rosenqvist and Ocon will be on the first two rows of the grid behind Verstappen. 16-year-old American Santino Ferrucci (Euro-international), who only has his second race weekend in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in Nuremberg, shone with fifth and sixth place.
Starting grid race 2
Max Verstappen
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Dutch driver Max Verstappen (0:48.118 minutes), who had won the first race of the weekend in the morning, again showed a convincing performance in second qualifying. As a slight drizzle came down at the start of the session, all drivers went out onto the track immediately. Seven minutes into the session, Verstappen moved up to the top of the time sheet and stayed there. The fact that the rain got stronger also helped the 16-year-old: from the halfway point, the rain got so heavy that all drivers came into the pits. Only a few minutes before the end of the session, some drivers went out again with rain tyres. On a wet track, no fastest lap times were achieved.
Esteban Ocon (0:48.206 minutes) followed behind Verstappen while Tom Blomqvist (0:48.240 minutes), Felix Rosenqvist (0:48.310 minutes), Santino Ferrucci (0:48.444 minutes), Jordan King (Carlin, 0:48.447 minutes), Lucas Auer (kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport, 0:48.461 minutes) and Antonio Giovinazzi (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin, 0:48.586 minutes) rounded out the top eight. In total, the fastest lap times of the first 18 drivers were within one second.
Starting grid race 3
Max Verstappen (0:48.255 minutes) also claimed first place in the ranking of the second-fastest lap times and will thus start the third race from pole position as well. Behind the triple winner from Spa-Francorchamps, Tom Blomqvist (0:48.299 minutes) followed in second place. Felix Rosenqvist (0:48.383 minutes), Esteban Ocon (0:48.384 minutes), Jordan King (0:48.520 minutes), Santino Ferrucci (0:48.553 minutes), Antonio Giovinazzi (0:48.594 minutes) and Jake Dennis (Carlin, 0:48.647 minutes) were classified third to eighth. Here, again, the first 19 young drivers were separated by less than one second.
Max Verstappen (Van Amersfoort Racing): “Because of the weather, qualifying wasn’t easy. It was clear to me that we had to set a fast lap time at the very beginning as rain threatened to increase, and that was exactly what happened. At the end, I did a few laps with rain tyres to get to know the track in the wet, too, because rain has been forecast for both races tomorrow.”
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