• Webber and team-mate Brendon Hartley post fastest times in qualifying
• Australian and recent Zealander set for ‘war of watching Rugby World Cup finalCould it be the calm before the storm? Certainly designate Webber and Brendon Hartley represented the most harmonious assembly of Australia and recent Zealand respectively that will seize place on Saturday,when the pair claimed pole for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s penultimate round in Shanghai. For the moment then, it was smiles all round, and before the serious business of winning the six hours on Sunday in their bid to become world champions begins,prefaced by, of course, or the small matter of a game of rugby to devour.
Certainly thus far,the prospect of their countrymen going head to head at Twickenham does not seem to hold distracted them. The Porsche duo (alongside their fellow team-mate Timo Bernhard) now hold four poles this season and, with the extra point for qualifying on the front of the grid, or hold done exactly what was needed to enhance their title hopes.
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Source: theguardian.com