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Antonio Giovinazzi stormed pole position during the 6 hours of Imola by leading a Ferrari 1-2, while Valentino Rossi took his first Fia World World Endurance Post of BMW at LMGT3.
N ° 51 Ferrari 499P led the qualifications in a convincing style, because the best Tour of Giovinazzi of 1: 28,920 left it 0.758 seconds away from n ° 83 Ferrari piloted by Robert Kubica.
The second Ferrari between the works was notably absent from the hyperpole after the elimination of Antonio Fuoco when he removed his time in the opening segment of qualifications.
The result marks the second consecutive pole of Giovinazzi in the championship, because he also led qualifying during the opening of the Qatar season in February.
Dries Vanthoor was the best in the n ° 15 BMW M Hybrid V8 in third place, 0.965 second withdrawn from the post.
Toyota Gazoo Racing captured the fourth and fifth with the n ° 8 GR010 HIRAKAWA hybrid at only 0.001 second faster than the sister machine n ° 7 in the hands of NYCK de VRIES.
Mick Schumacher took sixth in n ° 36 Alpine A424, before n ° 93 Peugeot 9×8, led by Jean-Eric Vergne and the second Alpine in the hands of Charles Milesi.
Alex Lynn described the ninth after his n ° 12 Cadillac v-series.r was rebuilt following an accident in free practice 3, with Kevin Estre last in hyperpole for Porsche Penske Motorsport and tenth in total.
The hyperpole shooting notably took place without the Ferrari n ° 50, which was demoted to the last place in initial qualification due to the violations of track limits.
Initially, Fuoco had qualified third behind Ferrari Stablemates Giovinazzi and Kubica before removing his time.
This allowed the Peugeot n ° 93 to progress in the hyperpole after being initially the eleventh, the n ° 94 of the Peugeot of Stoffel Vandoorne the first of the cars to be eliminated after the correction.
The Porsche n ° 5 by Julien Andlauer and the BMW n ° 20 piloted by Robin Frijns have also been hit, just like n ° 99 Proton Competition Porsche, n ° 38 Cadillac and Aston Martin Valkyries.
Rossi takes a maiden wec pole on the floor at home
Rossi secured the post by beating Clemens Schmid from the Akkodis ASP team to Hyperpole.
The Italian managed the team n ° 46 WRT BMW M4 GT3 to a better round of 1: 42,355, allowing it to stay away from Schmid Lexus RC F GT3 by a margin of 0.306 seconds.
Zach Robichon qualified as third for Heart of Racing Team, joined the second row by N ° 21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 by Simon Mann.
Finn Gehrsitz completed the first five of the class aboard the Lexus n ° 78 before the proton competition n ° 88 Ford Mustang GT3 piloted by Giammarco Levorato.
Riccardo Pera, the only driver of Porsche to unravel the hyperpole, took seventh, with the pair of United Self -Sports McLaren 720S GT3 Evos eighth and ninth.
Rui Andrade completed the top ten for TF Sport.
While Rossi exceeded the hyperpole, his co -pilot classified as bronze Ahmad Al Harth dominated the opening segment of LMGT3 qualifying the number 46 that the BMW remained undefeated at the top of the session.
The best effort of the Omanais of 1: 42,731 turned out to be 0.767 seconds faster than the best next car in the class, which was n ° 21 Vista AF Corsica Ferrari by François Heriau.
In particular the cars not to make the cut for the hyperpole included the n ° 31 The bend team WRT BMW of Yasser Shahin, as well as the n ° 33 TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R.
The 6 hours of Imola start on Sunday at 1 p.m. CEST (7 a.m. HNE).
Results: qualification / hyperpole
