Tomas Enge placed the Team Modena Aston Martin on LM GT1 class pole at the Nurburgring in Germany yesterday afternoon, the Czech racer over a second clear of the nearest rival.

The result puts the team in a strong position for today's 1000km race, where Tomas will team up with team-mate Antonio Garcia as the team chase victory at the circuit where they won in 2005.

"We're delighted with pole," said Sporting Director Rik Bryan. "Tomas did his out lap, set the pole time, then came back in, it was very straightforward. It is a good day for us  - and for the Charouz Lola Aston Martin which was third overall in the prototypes."

"We brought the car here with the basic set-up that the team used to good effect last year," said Tomas. "That has worked very well and has allowed us to concentrate on other things, particularly tyre selection. I was quite surprised at the gap to the Corvettes behind in qualifying but that was really more due to our tyre strategy than to me."It is always good to get pole position but in a race as long as this, with so much traffic and on a relatively narrow track it is much more important to stay out of trouble in the race. That's not easy when the straights are not so long, the prototypes are not much faster than us out of the corners and all of the overtaking is done under braking."

Today'ss race is scheduled to start at 12.05 local time.