Lamborghini achieves first pole of the season at Le Castellet

• For this first qualification of the season in GT World Challenge Endurance, at the Circuit Paul Ricard, it was the #63 Lamborghini of Iron Lynx (Pro) which took pole. This is the first time since Barcelona 2021 that a Lamborghini has set the best time in qualifying. On the first line, it will be accompanied by the Porsche #22 (Schumacher CLRT) led by a certain… Dorian Boccolacci.

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• Q1 was disrupted by a red flag caused by the #19 Lamborghini of Mateo Llarena who made a mistake. The Grasser Racing Team driver (in Silver) was finally able to leave. At the restart, it was Franck Perera (Grasser Racing Team, Pro) who dominated this first session with a 1'53″241. The Frenchman's Lamborghini Huracan Evo 2 GT3 beat Dries Vanthoor's BMW by 0 seconds.
• During the second session, it was Fabian Schiller who set the best time (1'52″782) with his Mercedes. Matteo Cairoli is second in Q2 with the #63 Lamborghini, less than a tenth from his German competitor.
• At the time of the last part of qualifying, nothing was decided before Miko Bortolotti confirmed the very good performance of the Iron Lynx crew in #63. The Italian clocked 1'52″775 which gave his team pole position. For his part, Dorian Boccolacci set the sixth time in Q3 (1'53″240) and allowed the #911 Porsche 3 GT22 R to start on the front row.
• Meet at 14:40 p.m. for the start of the race, which will last 3 hours.

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