G-Drive Racing on pole in Barcelona

If we believed for a time that Louis Delétraz was going to offer Team WRT an entry pole, the Swiss was dispossessed of his property in one breath: 0 "079, by the diabolical Nyck de Vries.

It only took one flying lap for the Dutchman, the last to take to the track, to set the benchmark mark in 1'31"788, he who is teaming up at the wheel of the No. 26 G-Drive Racing with Roman Rusinov and Franco Colapinto. Tomorrow, the No. 07 Oreca 41 of the Belgian team will set off alongside the latter, on which Delétraz is supported by Yifei Ye and Robert Kubica.

Followed by Will Stevens (who confirms that we will have to count on Panis Racing this season), Ben Hanley (DragonSpeed ​​USA), then the two Oreca 07s from United Autosports, respectively entrusted to Job van Uitert and Phil Hanson.

The American team will console itself with pole position in LM P3, a category where it will once again be difficult to trip up this year. Best time of the second free practice session, Duncan Tappy took pole position in 1'39"162 in the No. 320 JS 3. The Briton beat Malthe Jakobsen, who continues to shine at the wheel of the No. 15 RLR MSport Ligier and who prevents the defending champion from taking the double, Wayne Boyd (No. 2 Ligier) by a whisker. pointing to third place.

In GTE, it was Gianmaria Bruni who was most at ease. The Italian, who shares the wheel of the Porsche 911 RSR-19 n°77 from Proton Competition with Jaxon Evans and Christian Ried, completed a lap of the Catalan track in 1'41"892. Enough to allow it to precede by 0 »674 the Ferrari 488 GTE Evo n°80 of Iron Lynx driven for the occasion by Miguel Molina, and 0'877 the Swiss Rahel Frey, who also defends the colors of the Italian entity of Andrea Piccini.

The race, visible live video on AUTOhebdo.fr, will start tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.