Italy's Vitantonio Liuzzi will start Sunday's Sprint Race in pole position after marking his A1GP debut in Portugal GP qualifying.
Force India driver takes Sprint pole, Doornbos takes Feature pole
Italy's Vitantonio Liuzzi will start Sunday's Sprint Race in pole position after marking his A1GP debut with a fine drive in the qualifying session on the Algarve.
The Formula One Force India test driver timed his best run to perfection with the fastest time of one minute 30.875 seconds before red flags halted the qualifying segment.
Holland's Robert Doornbos also took his first pole position after putting Team Netherlands top of qualifying for the Feature Race in round six of the series, which sees Switzerland leading the point standings
The Team Netherlands driver also qualified second on the grid for the Sprint Race, while Ireland's Adam Carroll took second on the grid for the Feature Race to make up for problems he encountered during practice on Friday.
Doornbos recorded a fastest lap of 1:30.415 to take pole, with Ireland second and Switzerland's Neel Jani third.
Switzerland had encountered difficulties during sprint qualifying when their car stopped and the team failed to record a lap time.
South Africa's Adrian Zaugg scored the team's best qualifying result of the season to start fourth in the Feature Race.
Team Great Britain's poor weekend continued as Dan Clarke was 13th fastest in the Sprint session and 16th in Feature Race qualifying.
