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Third and fourth rows for Germany

A1 Team Germany will start tomorrow's races from the third and fourth rows after a turbulent qualifying session at the seventh round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in South Africa. Michael Ammermüller qualified in sixth position for the sprint and seventh for the main race on Sunday in Durban in his A1GP race car. 

Michael Ammermüller commented, "Qualifying turned out to be disappointing after the extremely promising results we had in every practice session. Already during the first run there was an interruption, from which I still benefited. In the second run the tyres were unusually bad. Unfortunately, our tyre allocation and strategy were devised on having to use this set again in the third outing. Furthermore, I was blocked massively by the Canadian driver Robert Wickens. In the final attempt on new tyres I was on a good lap when the session was aborted due to an accident. While many drivers were still on their warm-up laps and still had new tyres left, I had to start my final attempt afterwards with used tyres. Seventh was about the best I could do under the circumstances. Now we have to try to make up what we lost in qualifying in the race." 

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