Fuoco takes thrilling pole for Ferrari; Manthey PureRxcing Porsche starts at the front in LMGT3

Hypercar

• Hyperpole glory for the No.50 Ferrari AF Corse as Tifosi celebrate Antonio Fuoco’s epic lap of 1m29.466s to take his and Ferrari’s third WEC pole
• Fuoco sets the pole time in last minutes to head the No.83 AF Corse 499P of Robert Shwartzman by 0.419s
• No.51 AF Corse 499P driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi makes it a 1-2-3 for the Prancing Horse with a best of 1m29.953s
• No.6 Porsche Penske 963 of Kevin Estre is best of non-Ferraris in fourth place as he heads the No.5 Porsche Penske of Matt Campbell who recovers from trip across Tamburello gravel trap
• Kamui Kobayashi in the No.7 Toyota GR010 Hypercar rounds out the top six but Brendon Hartley in sister car suffers spin at Tosa and ends Hyperpole session in
• The rest of the top ten is formed of:
• 7^th No. 20 BMW M Team (Rene Rast)
• 8^th No.8 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Brendon Hartley)
• 9^th No.12 Hertz Team Jota of Callum IIott
• 10^th No.99 Proton Competition Porsche (Julien Andlauer)

Rain threatened the qualifying sessions but just held off with the only notable incident in the first session prior to Hyperpole being a spin by Dries Vanthoor in the No.15 BMW at Piratella.

LMGT3

• Qatar winning Manthey PureRxcing Porsche 911 RSR LMGT3 driven by Aliaksandr Malykhin continues exceptional start to season with pole position
• Malykhin peaks on a 1m42.365s lap to take a conclusive pole 0.692s ahead of the chasing field in Hyperpole session
• Joining Malykhin on the front row will be the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage LMG3 which was driven by Ian James in qualifying. The UK born American citizen lapped in 1m43.058s
• Third in LMGT3 is the No.46 Team WRT BMW M4 driven by Ahmad Al Harthy. The Omani driver just outpaces the sister No.31 BMW M4 LMGT3 car with Darren Leung aboard
• Sarah Bovy in Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 car takes fifth position ahead of the No.88 Proton Competition Ford Mustang driven by local ace Giorgio Roda
• The rest of the top ten is formed of:
• 7^th Manthey EMA Porsche (Yasser Shahin)
• 8^th No.55 VISTA AF Corse Ferrari (Francois Heriau)
• 9^th No.54 VISTA AF Corse Ferrari (Thomas Flohr)
• 10^th No.59 United Autosports McLaren (James Cottingham)

Tomorrow’s WEC 6 Hours of Imola is scheduled to begin at 13h00 local time