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Germany confident after taking sprint pole

A1 Team Germany scored its fourth pole position in total in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport when Michael Ammermüller recorded the team's best qualifying result of the 2007/2008 season in the fourth round in China. The 21-year old racing driver from Pocking will start the sprint race at Zhuhai from pole position. Claiming fifth position in the second half of the qualifying session, he will start the feature race from thrid row.

After sixth and second positions at Zandvoort, seventh and ninth at Brno and fourth and third at Sepang, the result obtained in China marks the best average qualifying performance for A1 Team Germany in the current season. In the past season, the team has achieved three pole positions in qualifying.

"It's good to start the sprint race from pole position," said Ammermuller. "Already the first outing went well. When I came back into the pits, we slightly changed something on the car. The DS Motorsport mechanics did a great job so we improved our lap time considerably in the second session and claimed first place. For both segments, we used new tyres. On old tyres, I finished first again in the third session. For the last attempt, the team bolted on a set of fresh rubber. I pushed too hard, however, so my corner exits were too slow that's why we ended up fifth on the grid for the feature race. But I believe that the most important thing is to start the sprint race from pole position during the rolling start. By contrast, the standing start in the feature race as well as the pit stops might open good opportunities to overtake."

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