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Hulkenberg takes night race pole

Nico Hulkenberg continued his excellent GP2 Asia qualifying form by taking pole position for the series' inaugural night race in Qatar

Having started from pole on his GP2 debut at Sakhir last month, ART driver Hulkenberg grabbed the top spot again in the floodlit Losail session in the closing moments with a lap of 1:35.741.

That gave him first place by a commanding 0.7 seconds over Campos's Sergio Perez, who was victorious in the last race in Bahrain.

Perez's teammate Vitaly Petrov, who had led the way in first practice, ended up third having led the way for most of the session. The Russian was in front when iSport's Hamad Al Fardan spun into the gravel and caused a red flag with three and a half minutes to go, and when qualifying resumed for a final sprint, Petrov was shuffled down the order by Hulkenberg and Perez.

Championship leader Kamui Kobayashi (DAMS) grabbed fourth late in the session, ahead of Piquet's Roldan Rodriguez and Hulkenberg's ART teammate Sakon Yamamoto.

Pos  Driver                Team        Time
 1.  Nico Hulkenberg       ART         1:35.741
 2.  Sergio Perez          Campos      1:36.464  + 0.723
 3.  Vitaly Petrov         Campos      1:36.487  + 0.746
 4.  Kamui Kobayashi       DAMS        1:36.525  + 0.784
 5.  Roldan Rodriguez      Piquet      1:36.583  + 0.842
 6.  Sakon Yamamoto        ART         1:36.667  + 0.926
 7.  Javier Villa          Super Nova  1:36.685  + 0.944
 8.  Davide Valsecchi      Durango     1:36.923  + 1.182
 9.  Edoardo Mortara       Arden       1:36.987  + 1.246
10.  Jerome d'Ambrosio     DAMS        1:37.027  + 1.286
11.  James Jakes           Super Nova  1:37.274  + 1.533
12.  Marco Bonanomi        Meritus     1:37.328  + 1.587
13.  Alvaro Parente        Meritus     1:37.409  + 1.668
14.  Diego Nunes           Piquet      1:37.605  + 1.864
15.  Fabrizio Crestani     Ocean       1:37.752  + 2.011
16.  Giedo van der Garde   iSport      1:37.789  + 2.048
17.  Michael Herck         DPR         1:37.928  + 2.187
18.  Giacomo Ricci         DPR         1:38.069  + 2.328
19.  Luiz Razia            Arden       1:38.264  + 2.523
20.  Davide Rigon          Trident     1:38.320  + 2.579
21.  Hamad Al Fardan       iSport      1:38.383  + 2.642
22.  Rodolfo Gonzalez      Fisichella  1:38.384  + 2.643
23.  Yelmer Buurman        Ocean       1:38.453  + 2.712
24.  Frankie Provenzano    Trident     1:39.314  + 3.573
25.  Michael Dalle Stelle  Durango     1:41.623  + 5.882
26.  Kevin Nai Chia Chen   Fisichella  1:43.139  + 7.398

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