4H of Abu Dhabi – Qualifying: The two pole positions for 99 Racing and Al Harthy

Who can stop 99 Racing? The Jordanian-licensed team won both pole positions for the last two ALMS races of the season, the 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi, thanks to its Bronze driver: Ahmad Al Harthy. The Omani, specialist in "time attack", once again distinguished himself by setting the best time in qualifying with an impressive gap of eight tenths ahead of his closest pursuer, Giorgio Roda in the No. 22 Proton Competition. Better yet: with the 2nd best time of the session, 99 Racing also took the second pole position at stake for the second race of the weekend, Sunday.

The second row on the starting grid for this Saturday's race will be shared by the #90 TF Sport, third (and which will start second on Sunday thanks to its second best time), and by the #30 Duqueine, fourth. The Top 5 is completed by the Crowdstrike Racing by APR n°4.

In the LM P3, COOL Racing also took a double pole position thanks to Alexander Bukhantsov, author of the two best qualifying times on the Yas Marina circuit, ahead of the Bretton Racing n°26.

Finally, in GT, the two pole positions went to Getspeed… but not for the same cars. The German team signed a double, with the best time of the Mercedes-AMG n°7 Al Manar by Getspeed driven by Anthony Liu in front of the sister car, the Mercedes-AMG n°9 of Martin Konrad. The latter, however, will start in pole position on Sunday, after having set the second best time of the session. The GT qualifying session was interrupted for a few minutes by a red flag, after Florian Scholze's accident in the No. 8 Audi R43 from the Saintéloc team after the last corner.

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