WEC Austin: Double pole for Ferrari

Antonio Giovinazzi secured pole position during WEC qualifying in Austin in Sturm-erobert. The Ferrari driver secured the first starting position for the second races of the season (Sunday from 20:00 live on Eurosport 1 on free TV) with a bombardment: Giovinazzi flies to the fastest time of the two weeks in 1:50.390 minutes. This distance is the Zweitplatzierten Robert Kubica in private #83 AF-Corse-Ferrari (Kubica, Shwartzman, Ye) at 0.277 seconds.

Double-pole for the Italian at WEC comeback in Austin after four years! Giovinazzi protects Ferrari with the second Saison-Pole and the first for the 499P prototypes with the starting number #51 (Pier Guidi, Giovinazzi, Calado). Giovinazzi: “Our Renn-Pace sees the guts!” The sports car manufacturer from Maranello performs best in the free practice sessions and can follow the form in the highest qualifying with strict temperatures of more than 50 degrees.

WEC qualifying: Three Ferrari in Top 5 – Bad luck for Mick Schumacher

The Le Mans-Sieger of the #50 Ferrari (Fuoco, Molina, Nielsen) was assigned with Antonio Fuoco at the wheel of the fifth place – and brought all three three 499P’s into the Top-5 of the starting position. It is worth seeing Alex Lynn in #2 Cadillac V-Series.R (Bamber, Lynn) on the starting grid. Before an overrun took place under Charles Milesi, of the #35 Alpine A424 (Habsburg, Milesi, Chatin) in the Hyperpole-Runde on the fourth place, bugsierte. It is the best qualifying race for the French car manufacturer.

Joy on a page of Alpine-Garage, Bad luck on others: Mick Schumacher has to solve his first qualifying lap with a problem. When his first fast laps suddenly open the driver’s seat of his #36 Alpine A424 (Mick Schumacher, Lapierre, Vaxiviere)! It is a fact that the age of 25 has solved the problem, the flash will disappear anyway, but the rennleitung is not even a problem with the problem.

In the much-pleased time, Schumacher set a personal best time of 1:51.969 minutes, which took place at Platz 13 in the Startaufstellung führte. The Rennfahrersohn rund three Zehntelsekunden is active on the P10.

WM-Spitzenreiter from Porsche Straucheln in Austin

The best place for Porsche on the WEC starter field is Matt Campbell on the starting grid. The Australian entered 1:50.847 Minutes ahead of my personal best time in #5 Porsche 963 (Campbell, Christensen, Makowiecki) – fast half a second back on the Pole Ferrari.

The WM spitzenreiter Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor in the #6 Porsche ride a backstroke at Platz 14 and compete in the most rapid stages of the cross-country season. Qualification-Fahrer Estre fuhr drei Zehntelsekunden an de Top-10 vorbei und war everything else as happy with the Performance of the LMDh-Porsche: “The car is fast enough, I have no run so fast. Fahren en keinen Fehler zu machen.”

BMW with the Plätzen (Sheldon van der Linde, Rast, Frijns) and eight (Dries Vanthoor, Marciello, Wittmann) is a strong team in one of the better WEC debut seasons with both BMW M Hybrid V8.

Toyota continues at the Circuit of the Americas: Kamui Kobayashi in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid (Conway, Kobayashi, De Vries) took to the new starting grid. The Schwesterauto with the starting number #8 (Buemi, Hartley, Hirakawa) tried out the Hyperpole-Runde – nur Platz zwolf. The ‘rote Laterne’ respectively Starting grid 18 went to the Iron Lynx and went to Lamborghini SC63.

LMGT3 Qualifying: Aston Martin prevents third Iron Ladies Pole

Aston Martin is the first Saison-Pole in the LMGT3 category. Ian James, Fahrer and team principal of Heart of Racing in Personalunion, won the #27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 (James, Mancinelli, Riberas) from the top spot. The British set herself in the hyperpole round of the Top 10 by 0.172 seconds ahead of Sarah Bovy in #85 Iron-Dames-Lamborghini (Bovy, Frey, Gatting). Damit passed the three steps Damen was able to drive Pole Position in the racing season.

Behind the #55 Ferrari 296 GT3 of AF Corse (Heriau, Mann, Rovera), the Manthey-Porsche 911 GT3 R #92 (Malykhin, Sturm, Bachler) with Alex Malykhin took the four starting places. The Manthey-Schwesterauto with the starting number #91 (Shahin, Schuring, Lietz) came with Yasser Shahin on Steuer nicht über Startplatz 16 hinaus. A setback for the aspiring Le-Mans classes in the camp a weltmeisterschaft. The trio is an Austrian Richard Lietz occupies the two Gesamtplatz with 25 Punkten Rückstand on the #92-Crew.

Guest starter and long-distance racing icon Ben Keating depends on his start in the #88 Ford Mustang GT3 of the German Teams Proton Competition at the moment of the jump into the hyperpool. During the current season, the 53-year-old Lokalmatador then invested the new Startplatz. The WEC Regulations must regulate the Bronze-Fahrer for GT3 qualifying.

The #31 BMW M4 of WRT (Leung, Gelael, Farfus) lands on P10. The second WRT-BMW is a Motorsport superstar Valentino Rossi who passes the Hyperpole-Runde and has to start at Startplatz 15. Bronze-Fahrer Ahmad Al-Harthy fehlten in #46 M4 GT3 (Al-Harthy, Rossi, Martin) run four Zehntelsekunden on the zehnten Platz, the Einzug in the Hyperpole bedeutet-hätte.