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Brian Deegan takes pole position in Seattle

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Brian Deegan has taken pole position for Red Bull Global Rallycross‘ return to Seattle.

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver lapped the course at Evergreen Speedway in 43.493 seconds, beating reigning champion Scott Speed by 0.073 seconds, ending the Volkswagen Andretti driver’s three-race pole streak.

Speed’s VARX team mate Tanner Foust was third, ahead of Steve Arpin in the other Ganassi-run Ford Fiesta, with Joni Wiman and Patrik Sandell competing the top six.

Subaru duo David Higgins and Chris Atkinson were seventh and eighth respectively, missing out on the second round of qualifying. Austin Dyne, Sebastian Eriksson, and Nelson Piquet Jr. completed the field.

In GRC Lites, DirtFish MotorsportsConner Martell topped the field, beating the returning Tanner Whitten by just over four tenths of a second.

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