Tim Bridgman bagged a double pole position for the final two rounds of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Brands Hatch today (Saturday 3 October 2009). Glynn Geddie took a tremendous third overall for both grids to head pro-am1, while Karl Leonard topped the pro-am2 times.

Bridgman (Team Parker Racing) got the final weekend of his title bid off to a perfect start by taking two poles and, importantly, two more championship points. Next to Bridgman on both grids will be fellow title contender James Sutton (Red Line Racing) while championship leader Tim Harvey (Red Line Racing) faces a tough race day starting with fourth and fifth places on the two grids.

"That's perfect," said Bridgman. "Job done and I'm really, really happy. Pole here is very important," he added, after being around three-tenths of a second clear on both grids. Sutton, meanwhile, was relieved to jump up to second for both races after struggling somewhat on his first set of tyres. "We made a small change before the second run and it just clicked," he reported.

Two third places overall was a great result for Glynn Geddie (Team Parker Racing), who topped pro-am1 to add two more points to his championship bid. "We sorted out a brake imbalance and it was just a different car today," said Geddie. The fourth and fifth grid slots were shared between Harvey and Tom Bradshaw (Team Parker Racing), as Bradshaw marked his 20th birthday with a very strong run.

"That's not the result I wanted," said Harvey, who lost his best runs to a mix of traffic and red flags. Bradshaw also felt that there was more time to come. "The second red flag came out just as my second set of tyres were coming in," said Tom. Michael Caine (Motorbase Performance) was also hurt by the busy track as he bagged a pair of sixth places.

The next three places on the grids were shared between Robert Lawson (JHR), Ollie Jackson (Motorbase Performance) and Lewis Hopkins (Red Line Racing), who were just over a second away from Bridgman's pole time. "I'm relatively pleased with that, but I really needed to be ahead of Glynn Geddie," said Lawson as his one-point pro-am1 lead turned into a one-point deficit when Geddie took both pole position points.

Jackson was disappointed not to get a really good clear lap, while Hopkins ran an excellent session to break the 1m30s barrier, over a second faster than the existing lap record for the Grand Prix circuit.

Despite causing the first red flag after spinning into the gravel at Paddock Hill Bend, Karl Leonard (Team Parker Racing) took both pro-am2 poles from Paul Mace (GT Marques) as Paul Hogarth (IN2Racing) and Glenn McMenamin (Parr Motorsport) shared the third places. "I went off early on my second run; I should have been half a second faster," said Leonard.