continued from page 2 really close, which shows how great this championship is. The top four are all within one tenth of a second or so. There will be some really good fights on track which as a driver is what you want. I’m on home turf so let’s see if we can make the home advantage count!” Ragginger, meanwhile, was already looking beyond the qualifying session: “You needed the perfect lap and I didn’t 100% get that today, but P3 and P1 is OK. For Earl, it’s not about P1, 2 or 3, it doesn’t matter. I didn’t lose the championship in this session.” For Hamdan, the hard work he and the team have put in this weekend paid off in qualifying: “We’ve worked hard all weekend to improve the line and such. It was pretty close to being the perfect lap, probably the closest to perfection I’ve got all year. I’m hoping for a great start and will battle from there, and do my best to hold on to first.” With Ragginger on pole for Sunday’s Round 12 and Imperatori lining up alongside, Bamber and Barker will make up the second row of the grid with Team Yongda Dongfang’s Benjamin Rouget and Team Jebsen’s Rodolfo Avila behind. In Class B, Hamdan is on pole for Round 12, with Tan alongside. With the stage set for the penultimate race of 2013, Round 11 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at the Sports Car Champions Festival is set to be nothing short of spectacular and could well decide the new overall champion.
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Team Eagle driver Martin Ragginger’s second fastest time of the session put him on pole for Round 12.
Qualifying Results - Round 11 Pos
No
Driver/Nationality
Entrant/Nationality
Time
1
7
Earl BAMBER (NZL)
Nexus GSH Racing (MAS)
1:49.929
2
99
Alexandre IMPERATORI (HKG)
PICC Team StarChase (HKG)
+0.010
3
86
Martin RAGGINGER (AUT)
Team Eagle (CHN)
+0.109
4
9
*Ben BARKER (GBR)
Team Betterlife (CHN)
+0.191
5
8
Benjamin ROUGET (FRA)
Team Yongda Dongfang (CHN)
+0.729
6
20
Rodolfo AVILA (MAC)
Team Jebsen (HKG)
+0.751
7
78
ZHANG Da Sheng (CHN)
Basetex Racing (CHN)
+0.830
8
58
TUNG Ho-Pin (CHN)
Budweiser Kamlung Racing (MAS)
+0.882
9
3
*Darryl O’YOUNG
Team Carrera Cup Asia (CHN)
+0.939
10
38
Keita SAWA (JPN)
LKM Racing Team (HKG)
+0.992
11
66
Jason ZHANG Zhiqiang (CHN)
Team C&D (CHN)
+1.423
12
72
Alif HAMDAN (MAS)
B
Nexus Racing (MAS)
+1.721
13
5
Yuey TAN (SIN)
B
Dorr McElrea Racing (SIN)
+1.998
14
68
LI Zhi Cong (CHN)
Kamlung Racing (MAS)
+2.021
15
88
Egidio PERFETTI (SIN)
B
Mentos Racing (SIN)
+2.346
16
21
Francis TJIA (HKG)
B
OpenRoad Racing (HKG)
+2.602
17
11
Ringo CHONG (SIN)
Team Kangshun (CHN)
+2.866
18
27
Adrian Henry D’SILVA (MAS)
B
Nexus Racing (MAS)
+4.122
19
18
Marcel TJIA (HKG)
B
OpenRoad Racing (HKG)
+4.259
20
96
LI Chao (CHN)
B
Asia Racing Team (CHN)
+4.669
21
33
Samson CHAN (HKG)
B
Samson CHAN (HKG)
+4.894
22
83
Dr. MA Chi Min (HKG)
B
Dr. Ma Chi Min (HKG)
+5.134
28
John SHEN (HKG)
B
Modena Motorsports (HKG)
+5.887
24
22
SIU Yuk Lung (HKG)
LKM Racing Team (HKG)
+6.009
-
16
Wayne SHEN (HKG)
Modena Motorsports (HKG)
+3:44.703
23
* indicates non-series registered
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