Takuma Sato and Robbie Kerr, the respective leaders of the British Formula 3 Championship Class and Scholarship Class, dominated the second qualifying
session at Donington Park.
In the Championship Class, BAR F1 test driver, Sato headed German, Andre Lotterer with Anthony Davidson and Matt Davies on the second row.
Mark Taylor, who was 13th in this morning’s first session, made a dramatic improvement - he is on the third row alongside Northern Ireland’s, Derek Hayes of Manor Motorsport.
In the Scholarship Class, Kerr took pole after six minutes and was never seriously threatened for the remainder of the 20-minute session.
Earlier, Ernani Judice and Mark Mayall were the pacesetters.
After Kerr set the fastest lap, Michael Keohane and
Judice gave chase with Mathew Gilmore down in eight
place. Justin Sherwood displaced Keohane for second
with eleven minutes remaining. Gilmore slotted into
third with five minutes left, Keohane saw fourth place
slip from his grasp as both Ernani Judice and Mark
Mayall improved on their times. The Cork driver
opined his car was handling very erratically on the
Donington Park circuit.
In the Slick 50 Formula Ford Zetec qualifier, Adam
Carroll is the highest placed Irish driver. He will
occupy the second row along with Alex Danielsson. The
early championship leader, Richard Goransson has pole
from Patrick Long.
Elsewhere, Gary Turkington (Northern Ireland) is on
the third row, Tony Rogers lines up on row twelve,
James Murphy, who crashed in free practice this
morning, is on the 14th. row ahead of fellow Irish
driver, Emmet O’Brien.