Ferrari to the fore at Spa-Francorchamps as Iron Lynx secures prime running spots for Super Pole

Last year's overall winner was in dominant form, with the #71 crew of Fuoco/Serra/Rigon beating the #51 of Molina/Calado/Nielsen by 0.178s on average times. The chief architect of this success was Antonio Fuoco, who delivered a 2m16.486s in Q2 to establish a new GT3 era qualifying record.  

From this point onwards the #71 Ferrari was clear at the head of the order and secured safe passage thanks to strong runs from Daniel Serra and Davide Rigon. The sister car vaulted into second spot during the fourth and final qualifying segment to complete a perfect day’s work from the Italian squad.

The Iron Lynx cars were followed by the #6 Orange1 K-PAX Racing Lamborghini of Pepper/Caldarelli/Mapelli, who came up 0.317s short on the average. Audi Sport was also on song as its #12 Team Tresor and #32 Team WRT entries took fourth and fifth respectively. 

BMW will have a car in the shootout thanks to the #98 ROWE Racing machine, while a third Audi Sport entry also eased into Super Pole thanks to the #66 Team Attempto car. A trio of factory Mercedes-AMG entries completed the top-10, with the #2 GetSpeed finishing ahead of the #88 Akkodis ASP and #55 GruppeM Racing squads respectively. 

A further 10 cars will compete in Super Pole. Dinamic Motorsport, Toksport WRT and GPX Martini Racing will represent Porsche, while Emil Frey Racing had all three of its Lamborghini entries among the top-20. Beechdean AMR put Aston Martin in the fight with its #95 Vantage and ensured that seven brands will contest Super Pole. Audi Sport Team Saintéloc, the #30 Team WRT Audi and the #777 Al Manar Racing by HRT Mercedes-AMG also reached tomorrow's session. 

Among those to miss out on Super Pole were the #74 EMA Porsche (22nd), the #46 Audi Sport Team WRT (25th) and the #38 JOTA McLaren (28th). But the biggest upset concerned the #47 KCMG Porsche shared Laurens Vanthoor, Dennis Olsen and Nick Tandy. The latter suffered a brake problem on his first lap in Q3 and was unable to set a time, consigning this extremely strong crew to 64th on the grid.