The no26 G-Drive Racing Aurus 01-Gibson, with Nyck De Vries at the wheel, secured pole position for the 4 Hours of Barcelona with a last gasp effort at the chequered flag.
The Dutch driver posted a 1m31.788 lap time, pushing the no41 Orlen Team WRT Oreca of Louis Deletraz down a place by just 0.079s.
Ben Hanley briefly held the top spot in the no21 DragonSpeed USA Oreca before finishing the session in 4th place behind the no65 Panis Racing Oreca of Will Stevens, however Hanley’s 1m32.402 lap made the no21 car the fastest of the seven Pro-Am runners, 0.120s behind Stevens and 0.614s from the overall pole.
LMP3: Too Close to Call As Tappy Takes Pole
At the end of the 10-minute qualifying session for the LMP3 grid for the 4 Hours of Barcelona the top three cars were split by just 62 hundredths of a second in possibly the closest every ELMS qualifying.
Duncan Tappy secured the pole with a 1m39.162 lap late in the session in the no3 United Autosports Ligier, pushing the no15 RLR MSport Ligier of Malthe Jakobsen down to second by just 0.021s.
Reigning champion Wayne Boyd made a bid for the first pole of 2021 in the no2 United Autosports Ligier and briefly held the top spot with a 1m39.224 lap, only to be denied by the narrowest of margins by the top two cars and will be joined on row 2 of the LMP3 grid by the no4 DKR Engineering Duqueine after Laurents Hörr put in a 1m39.341 lap, a time that was still less than two tenths off pole.
LMGTE: Bruni Takes Pole for Proton Competition as Chequered Flag Waved
Gianmaria Bruni took the first pole position on his last flying lap in the no77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR-19. The Italian posted a 1m41.892 to deny Miguel Molina a home pole position in the no80 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE EVO after the Spanish driver had held the top spot for almost all of the 10-minute session with a 1m42.041 lap.
Row two for tomorrow’s 4 Hours of Barcelona will be headed by the no83 Iron Lynx Ferrari after Rahel Frey finished the session with a 1n42.266, three tenths ahead of the no93 Proton Competition Porsche of Richard Lietz.
The 4 Hours of Barcelona is due to begin at 11h00 on Sunday 18 April.
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