Michele Rugolo qualified second fastest among the LMGTE Am runners for the Six Hours of Fuji FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) race.
The pair of Audi R18 e-tron quattro will start the Six Hours of Fuji from second and third, Benoit Treluyer and Tom Kristensen qualifying the two hybrid machines.
Marc Lieb set the fastest time in LMGTE Pro for Team Felbermayr-Proton to claim the class pole position for Porsche , the second time the team has taken pole position in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) this year.
HRT were unable to make any more gains into rivals Marussia and Caterham in Korea today. Pedro de la Rosa will start twenty third on the grid, whilst Narain Karthikeyan, who suffered a brake failure and was unable to set a time, will start twenty fourth.
Qualifying was a tale of differing fortunes for the Sahara Force India team in Korea today. Nico Hulkenberg once again made it into the top ten and will start eighth, however Paul di Resta will start fourteenth.
Mercedes were happy to see both cars inside the top ten for the first time since Singapore today. Nico Rosberg managed to out qualify the retiring Michael Schumacher and line up ninth and tenth places respectively.
Williams endured a difficult qualifying hour in Korea today. Bruno Senna will start from a disappointing eighteenth place, with Pastor Maldonado only as few places ahead in fifteenth.
After both cars made it into Q3 in Japan one week ago, Sauber were unable to repeat this form today at Korea. Neither car made it into the top ten shoot-out, with Sergio Perez due to start twelfth, and Kamui Kobayashi – the hero from Suzuka – starting thirteenth.
Caterham re-established themselves as the quickest of the “new” teams in F1 today as Vitaly Petrov and Heikki Kovalainen qualified eighteenth and nineteenth on the grid for tomorrow’s Korean Grand Prix
Red Bull Racing secured their second front row lock out in two races today at Korea. Mark Webber just beat teammate Sebastian Vettel to pole position after both cars had shown strongly in all three practice sessions.
Toro Rosso were left disappointed after qualifying in Korea today. After earlier showing good pace throughout the weekend, both Ricciardo and Vergne failed to progress beyond Q2.
Toyota Hybrid Racing team president Yoshiaki Kinoshita heralded Kazuki Nakajima’s pole position for the Six Hours of Fuji as a “fantastic result”. The Japanese driver beat Audi’s Benoit Treluyer and Tom Kristensen to claim the second pole of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season for Toyota.
Having set a blinding pace in the final free practice session Kazuki Nakajima was man nominated for qualifying duties in the Toyota TS030 Hybrid and the Japanese responded by giving the brand pole position for their home race in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
Alex Lowes maintained his 100& pole position record in the British Superbike Championship showdown by upsetting Shane Byrne at his home circuit
Mark Webber of Red Bull took pole posiiton in qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix
Mark Webber took pole position in Korea as Red Bull secured another front-row lock-out
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