to third as he grazed the circuit's barriers three times while pushing hard to improve his lap and ripped his racing gloves. Kaffer gained fourth places to start the first leg from fourth while Zangarelli advanced seven positions to fifth as the latter was narrowly in front of the sixth-placed Couto. Friesacher qualified in the seventh position, having moved fifteen positions from his first session result. Toccacelo was eighth, ahead of fellow Italian Montin who dropped nine positions to start from ninth and Bruni completed the top ten. Cochet fell from provisional third to eleventh while Monteiro gained the most positions of all competitors to begin from twelfth. Behind Cochet and Monteiro the rest of the grid lined up as Priaulx, Scheckter, Sundberg, Collins, Yoong, Ara, Kurosawa, Phillipe, Takagi, Kaneshi, Lechner, Pavlović, Ide, Baumgartner, Ying, Kit, Merszei and Ho. Qualifying classification A driver's fastest time from the two qualifying sessions is denoted in bold. Warm-up A half an hour warm-up session was held on the morning of the race. A short rain shower fell earlier in the morning, making the track wet, but the surface dried out quickly. Although he spun, Kaffer reported no car problems and set the fastest lap at 2 minutes, 18.293 seconds, almost three seconds faster than Friesacher in second place. Kaneishi recorded a lap late on for third and Sato was fourth. Collins had his car's set-up altered with his diffuser cut for improved top speed after qualifying and was fifth. Scheckter, Priaulx, Monteiro, Lee and Couto made up positions five through ten. Race Sunday's race was divided into two aggregate legs lasting a total of 30 laps. The first 15-lap leg was held in the morning and the results of that leg determined the starting grid of the second leg with the winner beginning from pole position. Afterwards, a 5-hour interval was observed to allow for the intervening support races to occur. The second 15-lap leg took place later in the afternoon. The overall Grand Prix winner was the driver who won the second leg provided all 30 laps were completed in the shortest amount of time. Leg 1 The first leg began in cloudy and dry weather at 10:15 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 19 November. Karthikeyan made a brisk getaway from his standing start on the grid to maintain his lead on the run into the Reservoir Bend corner but he lost