Heidorn on pole - three ex-F1 drivers among the top ten

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Two Junior Cup drivers have good reason to frame and showcase this qualifying list:

in competing for the grid positions for round six of the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup at Brands Hatch Kris Heidorn (Germany) set the fastest time of 52.009 seconds and thus secured the pole position ahead of Jan-Hendrik Ubben from Germany (52.060 seconds). This puts the two youngsters on the starting grid in front of four former British Formula 1 racers and Legends drivers, Mark Blundell (3rd), Johnny Herbert (6th), Martin Brundle (10th) and Derek Bell (23rd), who have a combined track record of 389 Grand Prix starts and seven victories at the Le Mans 24-hour classic.

Mark Blundell in third place left a strong impression among the Legends in the near-275 hp Scirocco Cup car with eco-friendly bio natural gas power. "I’m surprised that I’m in front of the other Legends because I drove the car for the first time yesterday,” said Blundell. "I’m looking forward to the race.”

In the overall classification there are four racers ranking shoulder to shoulder: Maciek Steinhof (Poland, 156 points), Aditya Patel (India, 148), Heidorn (148) and Arne Larisch (146). Four drivers – Derek Bell, Adam Hay-Nicholls, Daniel Bohr, Adam Gladysz – will be moved five places to the rear of the grid for the race because they set fastest sector times under yellow flags in Friday’s free practice. The TV channel Sport1 will start broadcasting the race from 19:15 hrs. Girlracer magazine

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