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Switzerland steals feature pole

Switzerland's Neel Jani, who just pipped GBR to take provisional pole in the third qualifying segment, bettered his time in the final qualifying segment to secure pole position for tomorrow's Feature race. Sprint race pole-sitter Canada's Robert Wickens, who is having a superb weekend, will start the race from second place alongside the Swiss car on the front row.

Feature race pole-sitter Neel Jani has now notched up four pole positions for the Swiss team this season.

'It was a tough qualifying session, especially missing the first segment because of the red flags,' he said. 'I really had to push in the second one for the Sprint grid. Adrian spun in front of me, I didn't know where to go so I had to break to avoid him which cost me a lot of time but I'm still fifth so I'm happy with that.

'Then in segments three and fourth I was quickest and we improved the car a little bit but I had to really push a lot and it was still very close at the end.'
New Zealand's Jonny Reid, who has never raced on a street circuit before, qualified in third while Great Britain's Oliver Jarvis, the first driver to break the lap record around the streets of Durban this weekend, will line up in fourth place on the second row.

Brazil's Bruno Junqueira took the fifth spot ahead of the Netherlands' Jeroen Bleekemolen, who will start from sixth place. Germany's Michael Ammermuller and France's Loic Duval qualified seventh and eighth while Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque and Australia's John Martin will line up on the fifth row in ninth and tenth position respectively.

A1 Team South Africa's Adrian Zaugg will start the Feature race from a disappointing 15th position, after taking to the track early on in the session and getting stuck in traffic.

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