Spa 24 Hours: Raffaele Marciello claims pole for ASP Mercedes
Marciello grabbed the head diagram in the Tremendous Pole session for the quickest 20 autos from the gap qualifying session on Thursday aboard the #88 ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon.
The Italian, working last in the Friday evening session after he and his physique of workers-mates came out quickest on combination in first qualifying, posted a 2m17.949s on his first flying lap to grab the pole for the double-facets spherical of the GT World Express Europe.
His second lap used to be a puny slower, nonetheless would have calm been valid enough for pole had it not be deleted for a track limits violation.
Marciello trumped fellow Italian Mirko Bortolotti in the the #63 FFF Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evos by three tenths of a second.
Bortolotti, who is teamed with Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli, space a 2m18.252s on the second of the two flying laps allowed to each and every automobile after losing the first to track limits. Third status went to Maro Engel in the finest of the Haupt Racing Group Mercedes with a 2m18.545s.
The German driver used to be on the starting up place apart fourth on the end of the 30-minute session, nonetheless used to be promoted to 3rd when Nicki Thiim in the manufacturing unit-backed Storage 59 Aston Martin Vantage GTE used to be penalised for leaving the pits too leisurely, shedding him eighth.
Ricardo Feller, the quickest driver all the plan in which thru the four mini-sessions on Thursday, took fourth with a 2m18.561s for the Emil Frey Lamborghini squad.
#4 HRT Mercedes-AMG GT3: Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Vincent Abril
Photograph by: Daimler AG
Sheldon van der Linde ended up fifth in the quickest of the two Walkenhorst BMW M6 GT3s courtesy of a 2m18.590s. The end six used to be rounded out by Ben Barnicoat, who used to be stunning seven hundredths in the aid of on a 2m18.597s aboard the Jota McLaren 720S GT3.
Mattia Drudi used to be the quickest Audi driver in the manufacturing unit Attempto R8 LMS GT3 in seventh status earlier than the penalised Thiim.
The quickest entry from Porsche, winner of the past two editions of the Spa enduro, used to be the ART-mosey GPX 911 GT3-R of Mathieu Jaminet.
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