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All Addax front row in Monaco
21 May 2009 / Results / PhotosThe Barwa Addax team was delighted to have walked away from qualifying with a double success in Monaco on Thursday. With the feature race due to take place on Friday, Romain Grosjean continued his run of fine form with pole position with team-mate Petrov second and Nico Hulkenberg 'best of the rest'.
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On a pleasant afternoon in the principality, Grosjean stormed to pole by clinching the top spot, almost half a second quicker than his team-mate. The Frenchman set an early fastest lap and then improved it again on the ten minute mark, rubbing salt into his rivals' wounds by going even quicker with two minutes remaining to set a best time of 1.19.498 just as his team-mate got to within half a second of his best time.
Pastor Maldonado and Andreas Zuber were scrapping for the top spot early in the session until Grosjean stormed in with an untouchable lead. Initially it looked as though the time has stunned the pitlane into silence, but eventually his rivals came back and chipped away at his time, first Luca Filippi, then Zuber, then Jérôme d'Ambrosio until, with a few minutes remaining, the floodgates opened.
Petrov, Hülkenberg, Lucas di Grassi and Zuber all improved their times in the final two minutes until Grosjean went even quicker: on the final lap of the session he circulated again, just in case, but after setting another fastest first sector he slowed down, knowing the job was done. Behind the top three were Zuber, di Grassi, Alvaro Parente, d'Ambrosio and Filippi, but while the battle for second was fierce there was no doubt that Grosjean had claimed his second pole position of the season.
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