Second pole for Stoneman

Date published : 01 Aug 2010 - 08:36:00

GPUpdateSecond pole for Stoneman01 August 2010Dean Stoneman has scored his second pole position for Sunday's race at Brno. The Briton, who took the lead in the championship on Saturday, completed his best lap in 1.45.683 and will be joined by Jolyon Palmer at the front row. Stoneman, who wrested the championship lead from Palmer after yesterday's opening race, took his second pole of the weekend with an imperious display in second qualifying - the Briton going out early on fresh rubber and setting an imperious 1m45.683s with ten minutes of the boost-enabled session still remaining. Having used his boosts, Stoneman returned to the pits and the rest of the field took up the challenge of responding to his benchmark. Philipp Eng initially looked to have come closest, the Austrian moving to within half a second of Stoneman's benchmark, before Jolyon Palmer pipped the Austrian with five minutes to go to take second. Philipp Eng was third, and Kazim Vasiliauskas fourth, but the main talking point will be the potential thrilling run down to the first corner between the two title protagonists.- Full Qualifying 2 resultsRace 2 begins at 3:50pm local time (BST +1)