The # 63 Lamborghini of the Orange1 FFF Racing team will start in first position at the start of the 3 Hours of the Nürburgring after conquering pole with Mirko Bortolotti, Marco Mapelli and Andrea Caldarelli. The Italian trio posted a combined time of 1: 54.633 for scoring pole ahead of the Mercedes # 88 of Rafaelle Marciello, Felipe Fraga and Jules Gounon. The GT3 of the AKKA ASP team has remained at 45 thousandths. For its part, the # 22 Porsche finished third. In Spanish key, Albert Costa’s Lamborghini # 163 will start in sixth position, just behind its sister car, # 114.
Raffaele Marciello was the fastest driver in Q1 with the Mercedes # 88 after narrowly beating Maro Engel’s Mercedes # 4 and Lamborghini # 63 himself. With the great ‘roosters’ of the championship present in the first session, in Q2 it was the turn of their best squires. A role in which Luca Stozl, his own name, made his talent stand out to lead the second part of the classification and put Mercedes # 4 at the front of the combined times table. With the same time, traced to the thousandth, the Lamborghini # 63 was located, while the Mercedes # 88 lost some of its bellows due to the slower speed of Felipe Fraga.
If in Q2 there were the only incidents of the session, with the top of the Mercedes # 90 and the slight exit of the # 57, Q3 passed under a script free of mishaps. The best possible way to resolve a pole that was marked by the direct duel of Jules Gounon, Andrea Caldarelli and Nico Bastian. A battle that fell on the side of the Italian, thus extinguishing the dominance that Mercedes had exercised in the previous day. With everything, the best time in Q3 was for Mathieu Jaminet in the # 22 Porsche, followed by Albert Costa in the Lamborghini # 163 of Emil Frey Racing.
Andrea Caldarelli was third, but his performance became enough to secure pole position for the # 63 Lamborghini. However, the victory of the GT3 of Orange1 FFF Racing occurred by a narrow margin, since the combined time of the Mercedes # 88 was just 45 thousandths. For its part, the Porsche # 22 climbed to third position after beating the Mercedes # 4 and the Lamborghini # 114. Thanks to Albert Costa’s great performance in Q3, the # 163 Lamborghini will start sixth on a grid where the best car in the Silver Cup was the Lamborghini # 16, tenth overall.