Gabriele Tarquini is the man who will line up on pole for Race 1 at Brno.

He set the best lap of 2:12.286 twenty minutes into the session at the wheel of his SEAT León.

This was the Italian's second pole of the season, after the one he claimed in Magny-Cours.

Two BMW men qualified 2nd and 3rd: Jörg Müller and Alessandro Zanardi. They both provisionally occupied the top spot during the session, but their times were eventually just 0.045 and 0.067 seconds behind Tarquini's.

The top 16 times were within one second of each other.

The best Alfa Romeo result was courtesy of Augusto Farfus who completed a lap in 2:13.061 which equated to 12th on the timesheet.

Robert Huff set the 4th best time of the session for Chevrolet but due to an earlier engine change he will be dropped by 10 position on the starting grid. The same will happen to Nicola Larini, who posted the 11th fastest lap.

Tom Coronel qualified ahead of the rest of the independents, his time of 2:12.755 placing him 9th overall.

His team-mate, Maurizio Ceresoli did not take part in qualifying due to GR Asia engineers working on replacing his engine.

As a result, he will start at the back of the grid. Exactly like Vincent Radermecker of Maurer Motorsport.

An engine change was also required in Pierre-Yves Corthals' Honda Accord Euro R and therefore he too was penalised by 10 grid positions for Race 1.

After the end of the session, the Stewards disallowed the fastest times of Huff, Larini and D'Aste, because they were all posted under yellow flags.