Augusto Farfus will line up on pole tomorrow. His time of 1:44.534 in the dying seconds of the qualifying session to demote Jordi Gené down to second.

Gené was the name at the top of the timesheet for the majority of the session with a lap in 1:44.808 which he even improved to 1:44.662 with eight minutes remaining before Farfus’ last minute break-through.

The second row will comprise of Salvatore Tavano's Alfa and Alain Menu's Chevrolet.

They both posted their best times (1:44.825 and 1:44.863 respectively) towards the end of the session, Menu peaking with two minutes remaining on the clock. Fellow Chevrolet man Nicola Larini set a solid time of 1:44.971 which equated to 6th on the grid.

SEAT team-mates James Thompson and Peter Terting are set to line up alongside each other in 7th and 8th position.


Behind them is a quartet of BMW cars - Jörg Müller followed by Proteam's Luca Rangoni and then the BMW Team Italy-Spain pair Alessandro Zanardi and Duncan Huisman.

Tom Coronel qualified an outstanding 5th overall and ahead of the rest of the independent drivers. His closest rival for the Independent trophy is Stefano D'Aste who qualified 19th.

Vincent Radermecker, who is also competing in the independent category, did not take part in the session because of engine problems to his Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti.

SEAT Sport's newcomer Oscar Nogués qualified 18th – only 8 tenths off the pole.

The session was extremely close, even for WTCC standards, with a grand total of 22 drivers qualifying within 0.990 seconds.