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Ireland and Switzerland split poles

Ireland and Switzerland took one pole position each for tomorrow's two races at Sepang, the third round of the season. Switzerland took the sprint race pole and Ireland the feature race pole.

Jani took his fifth consecutive pole at Sepang, but was denied a sixth by Ireland's Adam Carroll. Qualifying resulted in some of the most mixed up grids seen in the series, with Switzerland down to sixteenth for the start of the feature race.

The big surprise in qualifying was Lebanon's best ever grid position with third for the feature race.

The first part of qualifying was interrupted by a red flag after Korea stopped on track.

Switzerland's Neel Jani said: "We had some troubles in Q1 with traffic, but we did a better lap in Q2 which was enough for my sixth pole here so I'm pretty happy about that. Unfortunately, with this new rule allowing PowerBoost on one of the qualifying segments, I used it in Q2 and some used it in Q4. The ones using it in Q4 would be ahead so it was pretty clear that I wouldn't get pole for that one. It was good for the Sprint race but not as good for the Feature race, I think I'm as far back as I've ever been in my A1GP career."

Feature race pole-sitter Adam Carroll said: "That was my first pole for the Feature race and I wanted that one badly. It was quite a good lap but obviously there is the PowerBoost and that's when I chose to use it. It's going to be hot tomorrow, so we will be even redder and sweatier. There is not much you can do in England to prepare for temperatures like this, not only is it hot but it's really humid and that what makes it quite difficult."

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