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George Russell scores dominant BRDC F4 pole at Oulton Park

by Peter Allen
George Russell

Photo: Paul Davies Photography

BRDC F4 Championship leader George Russell was dominant in qualifying for round four of the season at Oulton Park, claiming pole position by 0.411 seconds.

Russell set a best time of 1m38.117s, but managed four laps in total that were quicker than his nearest rival and second quickest Raoul Hyman.

Hyman edged out HHC Motorsport team-mate and double Snetterton winner Will Palmer by 33 thousandths of a second.

MGR Motorsport’s Chris Middlehurst was fourth, followed by the final HHC driver Sennan Fielding and Russell’s Lanan Racing team-mates Struan Moore and Arjun Maini.

Charlie Eastwood took eighth for Douglas Motorsport, with the top ten completed by Tom Jackson and Gustavo Lima.

Jackson’s new Chris Dittmann Racing team-mate Tom Bale was 19th of the 20 runners on his series debut.

Qualifying results
Pos Driver? Team Time? Gap Laps?
1 George Russell Lanan Racing 1:38.117 4
2 Raoul Hyman HHC Motorsport 1:38.528 0.411 5
3 Will Palmer HHC Motorsport 1:38.561 0.444 10
4 Chris Middlehurst Mark Godwin Racing 1:38.670 0.553 9
5 Sennan Fielding HHC Motorsport 1:38.709 0.592 5
6 Struan Moore Lanan Racing 1:38.745 0.628 5
7 Arjun Maini Lanan Racing 1:38.804 0.687 10
8 Charlie Eastwood Douglas Motorsport 1:38.836 0.719 9
9 Tom Jackson Chris Dittmann Racing 1:38.997 0.880 9
10 Gustavo Lima Hillspeed 1:39.093 0.976 6
11 Rodrigo Fonseca Douglas Motorsport 1:39.103 0.986 9
12 Diego Menchaca Douglas Motorsport 1:39.236 1.119 5
13 Nicolas Beer Sean Walkinshaw Racing 1:39.324 1.207 6
14 Gaetano Di Mauro Petroball Racing 1:39.407 1.290 12
15 Rahul Raj Mayer Hillspeed 1:39.463 1.346 12
16 Jordan Albert Sean Walkinshaw Racing 1:39.654 1.537 8
17 Alfredo Zabalza Hillspeed 1:40.009 1.892 6
18 Michael Claessens Mark Godwin Racing 1:40.535 2.418 4
19 Tom Bale Chris Dittmann Racing 1:41.128 3.011 8
20 Diego Borrelli Sean Walkinshaw Racing 1:43.583 5.466 8