24h of Spa – Audi and Laurens Vanthoor in pole position!

After yesterday's qualifying, the BMW Z4s of the Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS appeared in great spirit on the Spa-Francorchamps track, scene of the fourth round of the Blancpain Endurance Series 2014. But this evening, it was another Belgian who made the headlines in the person of Laurens Vanthoor. In a very tense Superpole (only 20 minutes), the driver of the Audi R8 LMS ultra from the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT showed his speed and dominated the session with a time of 2'18″710. He is ahead of Ferrari 458 Italia from AF Corse driven by the Italian Alessandro Pier Guidi who failed only 46 thousandths behind the Audi n°1. Pier Guidi will lead the peloton in the Pro Am category tomorrow.

La Mercedes SLS AMG n°85 from HTP Motorsport in Maasen? Afanasiev? Dusseldorp completes the top three. To find a trace of the first BMW Z4 of the Marc VDS, you have to go down to 11th position with the Farfus trio? Martin? Muller. On the other hand, excellent performance from the Saintéloc Racing Audi, and the Sandström trio? Guilvert? Ortelli, fourth on the starting grid. The Bentley Continental GT3 of M-Sport Bentley takes 6th place with the Meyrick crew? Kane? Smith in front of the second Mercedes SLS of HTP Motorsport and the McLaren MP4-12C from ART Grand Prix, entrusted to Kevin Estre, Kevin Korjus and Andy Soucek.

The winners of 24 Hours of Le Mans André Lotterer, Marcel Fässeler and Benoît Tréluyer will start from 12th place, in their No. 8 Audi R2 LMS. The start of the 24 Hours of Spa will be given tomorrow at 16:30 p.m. in the Ardennes.