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Hegewald on pole for Donington Race 1

Germany's Tobias Hegewald will start Race 1 from pole position at Donington Park on Sunday. The 20-year-old, who dominated the Spa weekend earlier in the season, narrowly avoided an accident on Saturday to line up alongside Mikhail Aleshin for Russia with the championship leader, Spain's Andy Soucek, in third.

Miloš Pavlovic, Edoardo Piscopo and Kazim Vasiliauskas all briefly held top stop in the early stages, but it wasn't until a mid-session change of tyres that saw any further impact to the top of the timesheets.

Aleshin went quickest after a solid double flying lap run, whilst Julien Jousse slotted into second. The top three were separated by less than a tenth of a second until Hegewald blew the opposition away with just over ten minutes of the session remaining. The 20-year-old's lap of 1:23.486 would not be beaten for the remainder of the session.

"I'm really happy to be back in the top three for qualifying," said Hegewald. "I had a lot of problems in the test and free practice, but we worked on the car and I worked on myself - that's why we have ended up where we are.

"Of course when you are on pole you always want to win - you never know what is going to happen in the race, but of course victory is the target for me tomorrow."

Spaniard Andy Soucek moved into third during the final five minutes, whilst Hegewald spun again. The double Spa-Francorchamps race winner lost control at Goddards, but he wasn't alone in being caught out at the slow final turn. Pietro Gandolfi, Jolyon Palmer and Jens Höing also spun there, but it was an off for Jack Clark at Coppice that eventually brought out the red flags with less than two minutes to go.

Jousse hung on to fourth in the end, ahead of Pavlović and Piscopo.
Kazim Vasiliauskas, who set the seventh fastest time, will be demoted two places on the grid following an infringement in free practice this morning.

Sebastian Hohenthal and Robert Wickens had to settle for eighth and ninth respectively - the pair were unable to improve upon times set earlier in the session after suffering problems. Brands Hatch race winner Philipp Eng rounded out the top ten.

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