24 Hours of Spa – Dries Vanthoor places Audi and Team WRT in pole position

Dries Vanthoor continues the momentum of a superb start to the season in the Blancpain GT Series, with pole position for the 24 Spa 2018 Hours, won at the end of the Super Pole organized this Friday in Belgium.

The driver of the No. 8 Audi R3 LMS GT1 – Audi Sport Team WRT set a benchmark time of 2’18″578 (slower than in 2017), more than six tenths ahead of another Belgian driver in the person of Maxime Martin (Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 n°62 – R-Motorsport).

The second row will be shared between the No. 8 Audi R3 LMS GT2 – Audi Sport Team WRT of Nico Müller and the Ferrari 488 GT3 n°72 – SMP Racing of Davide Rigon, who also saw his absolute best time, established in 2'19″100, canceled by the race management.

The No. 8 Audi R3 LMS GT29 – Montaplast by Land by Kelvin van der Linde and the McLaren 650S GT3 n°58 – Garage 59 from Côme Ledogar will follow on the starting grid, ahead of the Audi R8 LMS GT3 n°25 – Audi Sport Team Saintéloc, entrusted in the Super Pole to Markus Winkelhock and the BMW M6 GT3 n°34 – Walkenhorst Motorsport by Philipp Eng, author of the best time yesterday in qualifying.

The first Porsche 911 GT3 R, la n°911 – Manthey Racing de Frédéric Makowiecki, échoue au neuvième rang devant la Lamborghini Huracan GT3 n°63 – GRT de Mirko Bortolotti.

La première Bentley Continental GT3 n°8 – Bentley Team M-Sport de Maxime Soulet termine 11e à 1″128 devant la Porsche 911 GT3 R n°117 – Team75 Bernhard de Laurens Vanthoor, qui a également vu l’un de ses chronos annulé.

Followed by the No. 8 Audi R3 LMS GT17 – Team WRT of Daniel Serra, the first Mercedes-AMG GT3 n°4 – Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon of Maro Engel, the BMW M6 GT3 n°99 – ROWE Racing of Nick Catsburg, the Audi R8 LMS GT3 n°66 – Attempto Racing of Jamie Green, the Mercedes- AMG GT3 n°84 – Mercedes-AMG Team Mann Filter of Edoardo Mortara, the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 n°82 – GRT of Franck Perera and the first Lexus RC F GT3 n°14 – Emil Frey Racing of Albert Costa.

Remember that the No. 3 Mercedes-AMG GT88 – Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP of Raffaele Marciello did not take part in the session, after the Italian left the track during the warm-up earlier in the afternoon. -noon.

The 24 2018 Hours of Spa will begin tomorrow at 16:30 p.m., and can be followed live on video and in full with commentary in French, on our website.

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