Simon Gachet won the Pole Position for Race 1 of the GT World Challenge Europe at the end of Qualifying 1 at Magny-Cours.
Under a beautiful sun, the competitors battled to decide the positions of the race valid for the second seasonal event of the Sprint Cup and the standard bearer of the Tresor by Car Collection placed the Audi R8 LMS # 11 in absolute command and in the PRO Class with a time of 1’36 “322.
The 20 ‘session also suffered an interruption 8’23 “from the end, when Valentino Rossi spun and walled the corner’ Estoril ‘with his Audi R8 LMS # 46. The’ Doctor ‘at that moment was looking for to improve his time and at least grab the Top 10.
Among other things, having caused the red flag, the Race Direction canceled the best performance of the Pesaro rider (who had also gone beyond the track limits previously) and the error will force the WRT Team rider to take 22nd.
Going back to the standings, Charles Weerts had the reference time before the stop with the Audi # 32 of Team WRT, but he was overtaken in the last seconds without being able to lower his limit.
The third time was instead achieved by the excellent Gilles Magnus in the Audi # 26 of the Saintéloc Junior Team, the fastest in the Silver Cup Class and completing the hat-trick of the Four Rings.
In the absolute Top5 we also have two other Silver competitors, namely Pierre-Alexandre Jean armed with the Ferrari 488 # 53 prepared by AF Corse, and Thomas Drouet, who with the Mercedes-AMG # 87 of the Akkodis ASP manages to precede the # 89 of his PRO teammate, Timur Boguslavskiy.
Following are three other Audis: Aurélien Panis finishes seventh in # 25 of the Saintéloc Junior Team, followed by # 99 of Nicolas Schöll (Attempto Racing) – fourth Silver in order – and by Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer with the # 33 of the Team WRT.
Completing the absolute Top10 is the Mercedes # 88 of Jim Pla (Akkodis-ASP), followed by that of Eddie Cheever (# 93 Sky Tempesta Racing) and the Audi of Pieter Schothorst (# 66 Attempto Racing) and Mattia Drudi (# 12 Tresor by Car Collection), as well as the Porsche 911 GT3-R # 54 of Dinamic Motorsport driven by Adrien De Leener.
In the PRO-AM Class the Garage 59 team confirms the excellent state of form with Miguel Ramos, author of the 1’38 “254 who keeps his McLaren 720 S # 188 one tenth ahead of that of Patryk Krupinski (# 111 JP Motorsport).
Third and fourth fastest time for the AF Corse Ferraris entrusted to Hugo Delacour (# 21) and Louis Machiels (# 52).
Finally, we would like to point out that Jota had to retire its McLaren # 38 after the pre-qualifying incident on Friday, when Oliver Wilkinson had exited at turn 7 and went violently into the wall.
The British team was unable to repair the 720 S on site, so they will be returning home to prepare for the Paul Ricard Endurance round in a couple of weeks.
Race 1, which will take place over a distance of 60 ‘with the driver change window in the middle, will start at 7.30 pm with the aforementioned drivers taking off.
Pos | # | Class | Pilots | Team | Car | Time | Detachment |
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1 | 11 | Pro Cup | Simon Gachet, Christopher Haase | Tresor by Car Collection | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.322 | |
2 | 32 | Pro Cup | Charles Weerts, Dries Vanthoor | WRT team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.517 | 0.195 |
3 | 26 | Silver Cup | Gilles Magnus, Nicolas Baert | Sainteloc Junior Team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.643 | 0.321 |
4 | 53 | Silver Cup | Pierre Alexandre Jean, Ulysse De Pauw | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1: 36.688 | 0.366 |
5 | 87 | Silver Cup | Thomas Drouet, Casper Stevenson | AKKODIS ASP Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1: 36.696 | 0.374 |
6 | 89 | Pro Cup | Timur Boguslavskiy, Raffaele Marciello | AKKODIS ASP Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1: 36.699 | 0.377 |
7 | 25 | Pro Cup | Aurelien Panis, Patric Niederhauser | Sainteloc Junior Team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.727 | 0.405 |
8 | 99 | Silver Cup | Nicolas Schöll, Alex Aka | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.759 | 0.437 |
9 | 33 | Pro Cup | Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer, Christopher Mies | WRT team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 36.927 | 0.605 |
10 | 88 | Pro Cup | Jim Pla, Maxi Götz | AKKODIS ASP Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1: 37.002 | 0.680 |
11 | 93 | Silver Cup | Eddie Cheever, Chris Froggatt | SKY – Storm Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1: 37.035 | 0.713 |
12 | 66 | Pro Cup | Pieter Schothorst, Dennis Marschall | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 37.043 | 0.721 |
13 | 12 | Pro Cup | Mattia Drudi, Luca Ghiotto | Tresor by Car Collection | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 37.050 | 0.728 |
14 | 54 | Pro Cup | Adrien De Leener, Christian Engelhart | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) | 1: 37.098 | 0.776 |
15 | 30 | Silver Cup | Benjamin Goethe, Thomas Neubauer | WRT team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 37.134 | 0.812 |
16 | 159 | Silver Cup | Vargas Manuel Maldonado, Ethan Simioni | Garage 59 | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1: 37.523 | 1.201 |
17 | 86 | Silver Cup | Petru Razvan Umbrarescu, Igor Walilko | AKKODIS ASP Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1: 37.748 | 1,426 |
18 | 56 | Pro Cup | Giorgio Roda, Klaus Bachler | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) | 1: 38.198 | 1,876 |
19 | 188 | Pro-Am Cup | Miguel Ramos, Dean Macdonald | Garage 59 | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1: 38.254 | 1,932 |
20 | 111 | Pro-Am Cup | Patryk Krupinski, Christian Klien | JP Motorsport | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1: 38.356 | 2.034 |
21 | 21 | Pro-Am Cup | Hugo Delacour, Cedric Sbirrazzuoli | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1: 38.595 | 2,273 |
22 | 46 | Pro Cup | Valentino Rossi, Frederic Vervisch | WRT team | Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 | 1: 38.614 | 2,292 |
23 | 52 | Pro-Am Cup | Louis Machiels, Andrea Bertolini | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1: 38.639 | 2,317 |
24 | 18 | Silver Cup | Gerhard Tweraser, Isaac Tutumlu | GSM NOVAMARINE | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo | 1: 39.718 | 3,396 |
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