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Grid positions one and two for Audi in Bahrain
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Grid positions one and two for Audi in Bahrain

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September 30,2012
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The Scotsman shaped the qualifying session in Bahrain right from the first minute: On his second lap, Allan McNish topped his own best time from the first attempt by improving it by another 27 hundredths of a second. Further into the session, nobody was able to improve the time of the works driver in the number “2” e-tron quattro. Nicolas Lapierre in the Toyota had to admit defeat by 0.440 seconds and was initially placed in second position.

For the number “1” Audi R18 e-tron quattro, qualifying turned into an unexpected thriller. The team of the Le Mans winners waited for a long while before going out for the first time. When Marcel Fässler, on his first lap hit a bollard that came to rest behind him on the middle of the track, race control interrupted the qualifying session. With cooled down tires, the Swiss went out on his next lap and initially qualified in third place, trailing his team-mate by 1.159 seconds. On his last lap, he managed to make a strong recovery.  With 1m 45.888s, he reduced his deficit to McNish to only 74 thousandths of a second. That completed the front row for Audi. For the brand with the four rings, this marked the fifth event after Sebring, Spa, Le Mans and Silverstone in which Audi set the fastest time this season. The last time that two Audi sportscars were on the front row was at Silverstone on August 26.

 With air temperatures of 34 degrees and track temperatures of 41 degrees centigrade, the conditions were extreme even in qualifying.  On the desert track in Bahrain, which takes a tremendous toll on the brakes, the drivers and cars will endure extreme conditions in the six-hour race on Saturday. The sixth WEC round starts on Saturday at 16:00, local time and can be watched live on the internet:  www.audi-liveracing.com will broadcast the entire race.

 Allan McNish (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): “An advantage of seven hundredths of a second, compared with Silverstone were where we were trailing by just one hundredth, feels like a one-kilometer gap. I’m very happy with the result. A big ‘well done’ to the whole team. They prepared our car here in Bahrain completely from scratch – which is a very large task. That’s why the pole position is a way of saying ‘thank you’ for the great work.”

 Qualifying results

 1 Kristensen/McNish (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 1m 45.814s

2 Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 1m 45.888s

3 Wurz/Lapierre (Toyota) 1m 46.254s

4 Prost/Jani (Lola-Toyota) 1m 47.638s

5 Leventis/Watts/Kane (HPD-Honda) 1m 48.446s

6 Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck (HPD-Honda) 1m 48.784s

7 Potolicchio/Kimber-Smith/Sarrazin (HPD-Honda) 1m 51.798s

8 Martin/Graves (Oreca-Nissan) 1m 52.285s

9 Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla (Morgan-Nissan) 1m 52.368s

10 Baguette/Kraihamer/Brundle (Morgan-Nissan) 1m 52.609s

 

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