Asmer Claims Third Straight Pole

Marko Asmer (#7 Hitech Racing) claimed his third straight pole position of the 2007 season in Bucharest in a red flag hit 30 minute session for tomorrows fifth race of the year. The Estonian finished 0.160 seconds ahead of Alberto Valerio (#22 Carlin Motorsport), the 2005 SudAm Formula 3 Champion revelling in the challenge of the street circuit in the Romanian Capital.

Marko Asmer: "It's not very easy but no I've been starting well now; we've been quickest in every session so far. The good thing is that no one can say I've done this so many times because I'm here for the first time like everybody. So it's a good start. In qualifying the track is getting better and we find small bits and getting quicker ourselves. We should go quicker tomorrow again. My lap time was good but it was nothing special to our own standards. I think we had a very, very good lap coming but in the second last corner I hit some traffic and I know we could be much quicker than we are now."

Round 5 of the 2007 Lloyds TSB Insurance British F3 International Series is due to start at 11:55 tomorrow and will be preceded at 08:15 with the 30 minute qualifying session for Round 6 on Sunday.

Qualifying for Round 5 Provisional Results

1 7 C Marko ASMER EST 1:11.681 156.24kph
2 22 C Alberto VALERIO BRA +0.160s
3 5 C Sebastian HOHENTHAL SWE +0.677s
4 3 C Sam BIRD GBR +0.692s
5 21 C Niall BREEN IRL +0.820s
6 23 C Maro ENGEL GER +1.090s
7 26 C Atte MUSTONEN FIN +1.165s
8 50 C Greg MANSELL GBR +1.318s
9 1 C Stephen JELLEY GBR +1.413s
10 15 C Michael DEVANEY IRL +1.768s
11 35 N Alistair JACKSON GBR +2.096s
12 2 C Jonathan KENNARD GBR +2.129s
13 55 N Michael MEADOWS GBR +2.195s
14 14 C Esteban GUERRIERI ARG +2.217s
15 31 N Sergio PEREZ MEX +2.381s
16 9 C Rodolfo GONZALEZ VEN +2.532s
17 24 C John MARTIN AUS +2.533s
18 4 C Mario MORAES BRA +2.614s
19 38 N Hamad AL FARDAN BHR +2.689s
20 36 N Albert COSTA ESP +2.761s
21 61 I Max CHILTON GBR +3.448s
22 37 N Viktor JENSEN ISL +3.480s
23 33 N Juan Pablo GARCIA SAMANO MEX +3.733s
24 34 N Alex WATERS GBR +3.841s
25 12 C Sean PETTERSON RSA +4.244s
26 44 C Leo MANSELL GBR +4.832s
27 8 C Francesco CASTELLACCI ITA +4.910s
28 10 C Ricardo TEIXEIRA ANG +5.325s
29 39 N CHENG Cong Fu CHN +5.620s
30 77 N Salman AL KHALIFA BHR +5.787s