Bruno Senna Takes Pole In Silverstone
Jul 04, 2008
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Bruno Senna has claimed his second pole in a row this afternoon in Silverstone, taking the topspot in qualifying ahead of Romain Grosjean and Andreas Zuber.
The Brazilian topped the timesheets with a lap of 1:26.912, one tenth ahead of the Frenchmanwho set up a repeat front row from the last event in Magny-Cours, although this time Senna tookpole without incident as he hoped after his dramatic crash at the French circuit.
All of the drivers were immediately on track when the green light showed at the end of the pitlaneafter this morning’s free practice session, which saw almost all of the fastest lap set on their firstset of tyres: this was repeated in qualifying, when a fierce early fight set most of the best times ofthe day. Roldan Rodriguez, Adrian Valles and Mike Conway all took a turn at the top of thetimesheets before Grosjean headed teammate Luca Filippi at the top before they made their wayback to the pits for their stops.
Senna had other plans however, and stayed out to take advantage of the clear track: the movepaid off in spades as he claimed tomorrow’s pole before returning to the pits, along withcountryman Lucas di Grassi. Despite a strong push in the second half of the session only Zuberand Giorgio Pantano could improve their times at the top of the timesheet.
Behind the top three tomorrow will be di Grassi, Pantano, Filippi, Andy Soucek and Mike Conway,although there was little to separate them: the top twelve drivers were covered by just onesecond, with a further second covering the first 22 drivers. With change predicted in the weatherpatterns tomorrow we are likely to have a hugely entertaining first race at the British circuit.
