ELMS – Turvey offers Jota a new pole at Imola

Oliver Turvey takes his second consecutive pole at the wheel of the Zytek Z11SN-Nissan from the Jota Sport team. After winning qualifying and the race at Silverstone, the No. 38 once again stood out on the Imola circuit with a best time of 1'34"343. Mathias Beche was the closest, falling by more than half a second on the Oreca 03-Nissan of Thiriet by TDS Racing. The second row is completed by the Oreca 03-Nissan of Murphy Prototypes driven by Brendon Hartley and by theAlpine A450 led by Nelson Panciatici. Tom Kimber-Smith completed the top five in the Greaves Motorsport Zytek.

Gary Hirsch took pole in the LMPC category with a time of 1'39"222 which allowed the #09 FLM49 to start from tenth place ahead of the Lola B11/40-Judd of DKR Engineering. Ram Racing will start on pole in the GTE thanks to a time of 1'41"994 set by Matt Griffin on the Ferrari 458 Italia. Patrick Long a échoué à moins d’un dixième avec la Porsche 911 GT3 RSR IMSA Matmut performance. Peter Kox was the fastest GTC with a time of 1'43"752 achieved at the wheel of his Lamborghini Gallardo LP600. Stefano Gai follows almost four tenths behind in the #458 F62 Italia from the AF Corse team.

The start of the race will be at 16 p.m. and will be followed live on Motors TV.