Having set the fifth quickest time throughout Q1, the BTCC rookie turned the primary driver to interrupt the NAPA Racing UK qualifying stranglehold after producing a sensational lap within the Q2 top-ten shootout.
Doble initially catapulted himself to the highest of the timesheets after setting a 57.635s early on within the ten-minute Q2 shootout. Nevertheless, the Vauxhall Astra driver went even sooner to set a 57.599s lap later within the session.
That lap proved pivotal as four-time champion Turkington got here inside a whisker of spoiling Doble’s social gathering after the Crew BMW driver set a 57.611s, adequate to safe second on the grid.
Defending champion Tom Ingram will begin Sunday’s opening race from third on the grid after he too got here inside touching distance of claiming pole place. Ingram’s finest lap was simply 0.030s off Doble pole lap, whereas Laser Software Racing BMW’s Jake Hill was only a additional 0.015s again in fourth.
Regardless of solely simply squeezing into the Q2 shootout, runaway championship chief Ash Sutton secured his place on the third row of the grid with the fifth quickest time, alongside EXCELR8 Hyundai’s Tom Chilton in sixth.
Nonetheless solely 0.187s away from the highest of the timesheets, Dan Cammish was seventh quickest and shares the fourth row of the grid with Energy Maxed Racing’s Aron Taylor-Smith in eighth.
Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Rory Butcher and NAPA Racing’s Sam Osborne accomplished the rest of the top-ten order in ninth and tenth.