The Brazilian Luiz Razia, who joined Elk Motorsport, catched his maiden pole position in Euroseries 3000,which is having his fifth seasonal round at Nurburgring. The 18-years-old from Bahia, fastest since thepractice sessions, in Germany stopped the clock on 1'20"427, beating the Minardi/GP Racing duo. Behind theSouth American today (Saturday) afternoon at 15:20 (20 laps) will start Davide Rigon. The series leader triedhis best to get his third 2007 pole, but had to set up with his second place (1'20"445), just 18 thousands of asecond slower than Razia.

Rigon preceeded his team-mate Diego Nunes, who clocked a 1'20"488. Behindhim, on second row, will start the rookie Manuel Saez Merino (Elk Motorsport), who got to know very quicklythe Lola-Zytek and posted a time of 1'20"820. Completing the great performance from Elk, the fifth place ofthe Moroccan Mehdi Bennani in 1'21"269, who preceeded Oliver Martini (RC Motorsport), whose best lap wasin 1'21"314. The fight for the pole was exciting, with several lead changes. In the end the first seven driversare split by just a second and the race promises to be very open.

QUALIFYING – NÜRBURGRING1. Luiz Razia - Elk Motorsport – 1’20’’4272. Davide Rigon - Minardi Team by GP Racing – 1’20’’4453. Diego Nunes - Minardi Team by GP Racing – 1’20’’4484. Manuel Saez Merino- Elk Motorsport – 1’20’’8205. Mehdi Bennani - Elk Motorsport – 1’21’’2696. Oliver Martini - R.C. Motorsport – 1’21’’3147. Omar Leal - Engineering Durango – 1’21’’4528. Celso Miguez - G-Tec –1’21’’5899. Vladimir Arabadzhiev - Auto Sport Racing – 1’21’’96410. Francesco Dracone – 2G Racing – 1’22’’67311. Sebastian Merchan - G-Tec – 1’22’’764