Spirit of Racing starts from pole for the Italian GT Championship (CIGT) Endurance round at Imola. David Perel set the fastest lap of yet another scorching day in Emilia-Romagna, a 1m41.046sec, with Rafael Duran adding the #50 Spirit of Racing Ferrari 296 GT3’s other time to average 1m41.596sec.
GT3
Qualifying ran in two groups, A and B, with each car’s drivers setting a time in a session apiece and the three combined to order the field. The grid then alternates between the groups rather than running straight down the combined times. Because #50 topped Group A and was fastest overall, Group A takes the odd slots and Group B the evens.
The #3 Easy Race Ferrari 296 GT3 of Mattia Marchiante, Luigi Coluccio and Carlo Tamburini was quickest of Group B with a time of 1m41.685sec and lines up alongside the pole-winning #50 Spirit of Racing Ferrari on the front row. The alternation also lifts the #64 AKM Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Guy Albag and Lorenzo Ferrari to third place, ahead of the #62 Double TT Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 of Leonardo Colavita, Ibrahim Badawi and Gilles Renmans.
Title contenders are spread across the grid. Points leader #66 VSR Lamborghini Huracán GT3, shared by Edoardo Liberati, Mattia Michelotto and Ignazio Zanon, starts 13th on 43 points. Their closest challengers, Alessandro Balzan and Dylan Medler in the #45 Rinaldi Racing Ferrari 296 GT3, out-qualified them for sixth on the grid and sit second on 33 points. Eliseo Donno, Giacomo Pollini and Luca Segù, third in the standings on 29 points in the #72 DL Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3, have the most to do from 24th on the grid. With points awarded at the 100-minute mark as well as at the finish, and one more Endurance round to come after Imola, there is still plenty to play for.
GT Cup
Krypton Motorsport took pole in the GT Cup category with the #231 Ferrari 296 Challenge of Simone Iaquinta, Luigi Ferrara and Francesco Galli, ahead of the #269 Zanasi Racing Ferrari 296 Challenge.
Red flag ends qualifying
Qualifying ran largely without incident until the final group which was red-flagged with 13 seconds left and not resumed after the #55 Nova Race Events Honda NSX GT3 of Pedro Ebrahim spun into the gravel at the Villeneuve chicane and beached. Ebrahim’s times were deleted by the stewards, dropping the car to the back of the GT3 order.
Sunday noon start
The race gets under way at 12:05 CEST on Sunday.
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Results
GT3
- #50 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – 1m41.596sec
A. David Perel
B. Rafael Duran - #3 Easy Race (Ferrari) – 1m41.685sec
A. Carlo Tamburini
B. Luigi Coluccio
C. Mattia Marchiante - #64 AKM Motorsport (Mercedes-AMG) – 1m41.931sec
A. Guy Albag
B. Lorenzo Ferrari - #62 Double TT Racing (Ferrari) – 1m41.747sec
A. Leonardo Colavita
B. Ibrahim Badawi
C. Gilles Renmans - #99 Tresor Attempto Racing (Audi) – 1m42.184sec
A. Andrea Frassineti
B. Ariel Levi
C. Alex Aka - #45 Rinaldi Racing (Ferrari) – 1m42.199sec
A. Alessandro Balzan
B. Dylan Medler - #51 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – 1m42.369sec
A. Riccardo Ponzio
B. Francesco Braschi
C. Andrew Rackstraw - #59 Raptor Engineering (McLaren) – 1m42.237sec
A. Alessio Deledda
B. Artem Petrov
C. Riccardo Cazzaniga - #36 Oregon Team (Lamborghini) – 1m42.412sec
A. Maximilian Paul
B. Guido Luchetti
C. Enzo Geraci - #7 BMW Italia Ceccato Racing (BMW) – 1m42.258sec
A. William Alatalo
B. Filip Ugran
C. Alfred Nilsson - #26 Easy Race (Ferrari) – 1m42.488sec
A. Leonardo Gorini
B. Massimo Perrina
C. Daniel Mancinelli - #11 Nova Race Events (BMW) – 1m42.549sec
A. Jean-Luc D’Auria
B. Francesco Guerra
C. Jasin Ferati - #66 VSR (Lamborghini) – 1m42.520sec
A. Edoardo Liberati
B. Ignazio Zanon
C. Mattia Michelotto - #22 Tresor Attempto Racing (Audi) – 1m42.550sec
A. Marco Cassarà
B. Vittorio Viglietti
C. Sebastian Øgaard - #23 Team Spirit Racing (BMW) – 1m42.627sec
A. Jan Magnussen
B. Mathias Villadsen - #8 BMW Italia Ceccato Racing (BMW) – 1m42.568sec
A. Riccardo Cirelli
B. Filippo Barberi
C. Jacopo Cimenes - #83 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – 1m42.693sec
A. Benny Simonsen
B. David McDonald - #63 VSR (Lamborghini) – 1m42.625sec
A. Jesse Salmenautio
B. Alex Bowen
C. Loris Spinelli - #85 Imperiale Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m42.701sec
A. Andrea Cola
B. Lautaro De la Iglesia
C. Phillippe Denes - #25 Africa Racing by Dragon (Ferrari) – 1m42.758sec
A. Xolile Letlaka
B. Axcil Jefferies
C. Stuart White - #71 DL Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m42.767sec
A. Alberto Clementi Pisani
B. Mehdi Bouarfa
C. Franck Perera - #16 Stratia Motorsport (Mercedes-AMG) – 1m42.938sec
A. Sacha Lehmann
B. Florian Scholze
C. Colin Caresani - #54 Imperiale Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m42.960sec
A. Jacopo Guidetti
B. Alessandro Girotti
C. Alex Denning - #72 DL Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m43.300sec
A. Luca Segù
B. Giacomo Pollini
C. Eliseo Donno - #1 CSA Racing (McLaren) – 1m42.992sec
A. Luciano Morano
B. Sai Sanjay Thirugnana
C. Simon Gachet - #73 AKM Motorsport (Mercedes-AMG) – 1m43.352sec
A. Stefano Pedani
B. Giuseppe Guirreri - #68 DL Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m43.353sec
A. Stephane Tribaudini
B. Rosario Messina
C. Piergiacomo Randazzo - #93 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) – 1m43.388sec
A. Giacomo Altoè
B. Giovanni Altoè
C. Oscar Ryndziewicz - #33 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) – 1m43.358sec
A. David Fumanelli
B. Marco Pulcini
C. Murat Çuhadaroğlu - #21 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – 1m43.585sec
A. Gino Forgione
B. Michele Rugolo
C. Willem van der Vorm - #77 FAEMS Team (BMW) – 1m43.387sec
A. Jenni Sonzogni
B. Massimo Ciglia
C. Rodolfo Massaro - #20 Huber Motorsport (Porsche) – 1m44.326sec
A. Robert Mau
B. Chandler Hull
C. Jon Miller - #74 Rossocorsa (Ferrari) – 1m43.421sec
A. Samuele Buttarelli
B. Stefano Marazzi - #12 Audi Sport Italia (Audi) – 1m44.922sec
A. Damien Hamilton
B. Jody Lambrughi
C. Alessandro Bracalente - #69 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – 1m43.791sec
A. Fabrizio Fontana
B. Stefano Gai - #44 Ebimotors (Porsche) – 1m44.842sec
A. Leonardo Caglioni
B. Alessandro Baccani
C. Paolo Venerosi - #55 Nova Race Events (Honda) – No time
A. Luca Magnoni
B. Paolo Rocca
C. Pedro Ebrahim
GT Cup
- #231 Krypton Motorsport (Ferrari) – 1m42.784sec
A. Simone Iaquinta
B. Luigi Ferrara
C. Francesco Galli - #269 Zanasi Racing (Ferrari) – 1m42.904sec
A. Marco Zanasi
B. Hendrik Viol
C. Michael Verhagen - #232 Rossocorsa (Ferrari) – 1m44.415sec
A. Roberto Perrina
B. Brian Cook
C. Yahn Bernier - #163 DL Racing (Lamborghini) – 1m44.970sec
A. Mattia Bucci
B. Alessandro Cremona
C. Pietro Agoglia - #107 Rossocorsa (Ferrari) – 1m45.041sec
A. Nicola De Marco
B. Raffaele Vitale - #577 Tsunami RT (Porsche) – 1m46.924sec
A. Giuseppe Nicolosi
B. Gianluca Carboni
C. Davide Di Benedetto - #545 ZRS Motorsport (Porsche) – 1m47.587sec
A. Francesco Guidi
B. Carlo Contessi
C. Francesco Bolzoni - #571 SP Racing Team (Porsche) – 1m48.288sec
A. Massimo Abbati
B. Stefano Zerbi
C. Matteo Bergonzini - #433 SR&R (Ferrari) – 1m48.289sec
A. Andrea Bodellini
B. Lyle Schofield
C. Giacomo Riva - #411 SP Racing Team (Porsche) – 1m49.630sec
A. Gianalberto Coldani
B. Pascal Cardinale
C. Federico Bernoni - #533 BiRace Motorsport (Porsche) – 1m50.392sec
A. Ricardo Cesar Alvarez
B. Ciro Paciello
C. João Gonçalves - #531 APEX Competition (Porsche) – 1m50.515sec
A. Mauro Trione
B. Giovanni Trione
C. Pierluigi Veronesi - #488 APEX Competition (Porsche) – 1m51.086sec
A. Danny Santi
B. Roberto Benedetti - #150 Spirit of Racing (Ferrari) – No time
A. Federico Al Rifai
B. Simone Patrinicola
