"THE QUALIFYING SESSION HAS COME TO AN END, AND IT WASN'T A PLEASANT ONE FOR EITHER OF THE TITLE CONTENDERS. FATIH HAD HIS SECOND PUSH LAP INTERRUPTED, BUT THE ONLY CONSOLATION WAS THAT HE HAD SECURED POLE POSITION FOR THE RACE THIS EVENING.
FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS ALMOST GUARANTEED TO TAKE POLE IN BOTH ROUNDS IF NOTHING INTERVENED, THIS IS A BLOW. THE ONLY CONSOLING THING, HOWEVER, IS THAT WHILE HE HAS A POLE POSITION, JEWISS, ON THE OTHER HAND, STARTS IN P9 IN RACE ONE, GIVING FATIH AS MUCH BREATHING ROOM AS POSSIBLE. BUT EVEN THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH CONSOLATION, AS THE SITUATION IS FLIPPED FOR THE THIRD RACE.
JEWISS'S SECOND-FASTEST LAP IS GOOD ENOUGH TO PLACE HIM IN P5, WHILE FATIH WILL BE STARTING FROM THE BACK OF THE GRID FOR THE FINAL RACE, AS HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY COMPETITIVE LAP TIME ON THE SHEET AFTER HIS FINAL ATTEMPT WAS ENDED BY JEWISS BEING STRANDED OFF THE TRACK.
