Michelisz claims a second pole in two days

Norbert Michelisz proved to be the fastest driver in front of his home crowd, claiming a second pole position in two days. The BRC Racing Team’s driver emerged as the fastest in both Q2 and Q3, inflicting a gap of half-a-second to his teammate Gabriele Tarquini. Their Hyundai cars will therefore fill the front row in today’s Race 3.
Esteban Guerrieri and Yan Ehrlacher will start third and fourth in the Münnich Motorsport Honda Civic cars, while Benjamin Lessens qualified a brilliant fifth in his Boutsen Ginion Racing Honda ahead of Yvan Muller.
Race 2 will start at 15:30pm over the distance of 12 laps, with guest local drivers Dániel Nagy (M1RA Hyundai) and Attila Tassi (Hell Racing Honda) on the front row of the top ten reverse grid.

Q1 – Yvan Muller is fastest
Muller set the fastest lap of 1:52.780 just before the end of the Q1, beating Guerrieri’s 1:52.967. BRC Racing teammates Tarquini (1:53.014) and Michelisz (1:53.017) ranked third and fourth, followed by Lessenes (1:53.087) in fifth.
The 12 positions for Q2 were mostly taken by Hyundai (4) and Honda (5) cars, including the guest drivers Dániel Nagy (9^th) and Tassi (12^th). Mehdi Bennani and Rob Huff qualified their Volkswagen Golf cars in seventh and tenth, while Norbert Nagy was the only Cupra drivers to make the cut in 11^th position.
Amongst those who were not qualified for Q2 were Jean-Karl Vernay (15^th) and Thed Björk (20^th).

Q2 – Lessenes kicks Muller off
It took only one lap to Michelisz for topping the timesheet; the local hero clocked a time of 1:52.176, while Tarquini (1:52.382) and Guerrieri (1:52.792) ranked in second and third. Ehrlacher (1:52.917) was fourth while Lessenes (1:52.964) created a surprise taking fifth. In fact Muller was not able to go faster than 1:53.225 and missed the trip to Q2.
Dániel Nagy qualified tenth and won pole position on the reverse grid for Race 2.

Q3 – Michelisz is umbeatable
Michelisz annihilated his competitors claiming pole position with a lap of 1:52.365, inflicting a half-a-second gap to Tarquini (1:52.807). Guerrieri (1:53.023) and Ehrlacher (1:53.366) were not able to repeat the times set in Q2 and settled in third and fourth.
As for Lessenes, he was black-flagged on his launching lap after exiting the pitlane when the light had turned to red.

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