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LONGFIELD, England (AP) - Brazil's Nelson Piquet Jr. won the pole position for Sunday's inaugural A1 Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, finishing fastest in two of four qualifying sessions.
Piquet Jr., son of three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet, was almost half a second ahead of his nearest rival in a format in which times are calculated as a total of drivers' two best laps. He was so dominant Saturday he sat out the final 15-minute session.
New Zealand's Matt Halliday was second fastest of the 25 drivers, who are in identical Lola-Zytek single-seat cars. Third was France's Alexandre Premat, one-tenth of a second further back.
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