FIA GT World Cup – Marciello on pole in the qualifying race

We can never repeat it enough, but in the qualifying exercise, Raffaele Marciello (Mercedes-AMG GT3 – GruppeM Racing) is a real devil.

The Italian driver scored his second pole position in two years at the Guia circuit, for the qualifying race for the FIA ​​GT World Cup in Macau, by completing his best lap in 2'15"669, 1"2 better than his 2018 performance.

Le pilote officiel de la marque à l’étoile a devancé Dries Vanthoor (Audi R8 LMS GT3 – Audi Sport Team WRT) de 0″303, Earl Bamber plaçant la première Porsche 911 GT3 R – ROWE Racing à 0″397.

Fast in free practice, the 911s did not seem to find the right tempo, Laurens Vanthoor failing in 4th position half a second behind. Maro Engel lifts the second Mercedes-AMG GT3 – GruppeM Racing into fifth position by six tenths.

You have to look towards 11th place to see the best BMW M6 GT3 – Fist Team AAI of Joel Eriksson, just ahead of 2018 winner Augusto Farfus. Accidented in EL2, Kévin Estre (Porsche 911 GT3 R – Absolute Racing) was able to restart during qualifying, but only finished 14th.

The session was interrupted by the stop on track of Adderly Fong (Mercedes-AMG GT3 – Zun Motorsport Crew) who made a mistake at turn 12.

Ranking to come