Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography
Jayde Kruger is poised to make up further ground on Formula Ford GB leader Harrison Scott at Rockingham this weekend after claiming a double pole position in qualifying.
The South African sits just six points behind Scott in the standings after a double win last time out at Knockhill, and will start races one and three from the front of the grid.
His fastest time was 0.082 seconds quicker than recent pacesetter Ashley Sutton, and his second best time was 0.050s faster than that of the MBM driver.
Ricky Collard upstaged his Falcon team leader Scott, beating him to the third best time by just 0.006s, with both trailing the front row men by six tenths of a second. Max Marshall was fifth for JTR. Scott will start third for the final race of the weekend, ahead of of Marshall and Collard.
Sutton’s team-mate Michael O’Brien will start both races from sixth, with Louise Richardson a fine seventh. Radical pairing James Abbott and Juan Rosso were confined to a pair of eighths and ninths respectively, with Chris Mealin completing the top ten.
JTR newcomer Clay Mitchell completed the 12-car field behind Greg Holloway.
Qualifying results
| Race 1 grid ? fastest times | ? | Race 3 grid ? second fastest times | ||||||||
| Pos | Driver? | Team | Time? | Gap | ? | Pos | Driver? | Team | Time? | Gap |
| 1 | Jayde Kruger | JTR | 1:17.771 | 1 | Jayde Kruger | JTR | 1:18.056 | |||
| 2 | Ashley Sutton | MBM Motorsport | 1:17.853 | 0.082 | 2 | Ashley Sutton | MBM Motorsport | 1:18.106 | 0.050 | |
| 3 | Ricky Collard | Falcon Motorsport | 1:18.420 | 0.649 | 3 | Harrison Scott | Falcon Motorsport | 1:18.643 | 0.587 | |
| 4 | Harrison Scott | Falcon Motorsport | 1:18.426 | 0.655 | 4 | Max Marshall | JTR | 1:18.702 | 0.646 | |
| 5 | Max Marshall | JTR | 1:18.506 | 0.735 | 5 | Ricky Collard | Falcon Motorsport | 1:18.748 | 0.692 | |
| 6 | Michael O’Brien | MBM Motorsport | 1:18.749 | 0.978 | 6 | Michael O’Brien | MBM Motorsport | 1:18.815 | 0.759 | |
| 7 | Louise Richardson | Richardson Racing | 1:18.802 | 1.031 | 7 | Louise Richardson | Richardson Racing | 1:18.853 | 0.797 | |
| 8 | James Abbott | Radical Motorsport | 1:19.142 | 1.371 | 8 | James Abbott | Radical Motorsport | 1:19.173 | 1.117 | |
| 9 | Juan Rosso | Radical Motorsport | 1:19.225 | 1.454 | 9 | Juan Rosso | Radical Motorsport | 1:19.464 | 1.408 | |
| 10 | Chris Mealin | Falcon Motorsport | 1:19.550 | 1.779 | 10 | Chris Mealin | Falcon Motorsport | 1:19.740 | 1.684 | |
| 11 | Greg Holloway | SWB Motorsport | 1:22.026 | 4.255 | 11 | Greg Holloway | SWB Motorsport | 1:22.067 | 4.011 | |
| 12 | Clay Mitchell | JTR | 1:22.414 | 4.643 | 12 | Clay Mitchell | JTR | 1:25.813 | 7.757 | |