The Scuderia Praha Ferrari 488 GT3 (#11, Jiri Pisarik/Josef Král/Matteo Malucelli/Eddie Cheever) has scored the pole position for 24H Circuit Paul Ricard, the fourth round of the 2017 24H SERIES.
Italian Matteo Malucelli lapped the 5.842 kilometre circuit in 2:06.326 minutes to score the third consecutive pole position for the Czech squad. Missing the top spot by a 0.695 second margin, the ROFGO Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#31, Roald Goethe/Stuart Hall/Jamie Campbell-Walter/Nicolas Minassian) will leave from second on the grid. Only 0.094 seconds down, the Car Collection Motorsport Audi R8 LMS (#32, Adrian Amstutz/Patrick Kujala/Martin Kodric/Connor de Phillippi) followed in third.
Six of the twelve A6 cars run in the A6-Am specification and therefore have to respect a minimum reference lap time. In fourth place overall, the GP Extreme
Renault RS01 FGT3 (#28, Jean-Pierre Valentini/Pierre Brice Mena/Anthony Beltoise/Axcil Jefferies/Bassam Kronfli) took the class lead from the SPS automotive performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#24, Alexandre Coigny/Iradj Alexander-David/Richard Feller/Tom Dyer) and the second GP Extreme Renault RS01 FGT3 (#27, Frederic Fatien/Jordan Grogor/Tiziano Carugati/Nicky Pastorelli/Bassam Kronfli).
The only car in the 991 class, the PROsport Performance Porsche 991 Cup (#85, Charles Putman/Charles Espenlaub/Joe Foster/Andy Pilgrim), will start from 13th place overall after Charles Espenlaub set a lap time of 2:13.428 minutes.
In 14th position overall, the Porsche Lorient Racing Porsche 991 Cup (#65, Jean-François Demorge/Alain Demorge/Gilles Blasco/Mathieu Pontais/Frédéric Ancel) scored the SP2 pole position. After an intense fight, the APO Sport Porsche 991 Cup (#80, Alex Osborne/James May/Paul May) followed in second place, only 0.072 seconds from the Vortex V8 GC Automobile GC 10 V8 (#203, Nanna Gøtsche/Martin Gøtsche/Jean Christophe Rey/Maxim Aronov/Lev Fridman).
The Car Collection Motorsport Audi RS3 LMS TCR DSG (#333, Monika Parhofer/Dirk Vorländer/Christian Kranenberg/JM Littman/Rik Breukers) kept the upper hand after several lead changes in the TCR class. Finally, Rik Breukers pulled a 0.995 second gap towards the Modena Motorsports SEAT Leon TCR V3 DSG (#216, Wayne Shen/John Shen/Francis Tjia/Benny Simonsen). Third place went to the Cadspeed Racing with Atech Audi RS3 LMS TCR SEQ (#108, James Kaye/Ricky Coomber/Paul White/David Drinkwater/Thomas Gannon).
The Optimum Motorsport Ginetta G55 GT4 (#231, Adrian Barwick/Dan O'Brien/Julio Martini/Philippe Salini) topped the timing sheets in the SP3-GT4 class. The FACH AUTO TECH Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport (#240, Marco Zolin/Michael Hirschmann/Marcel Wagner/Heinz Bruder) will start from second place. The track-club Lotus Evora GT4 (#111, Marcus Jewell/Simon Atkinson/Adam Knight/Stuart Ratcliff) settled for third.
The DUWO Racing BMW M235i Racing Cup (#235, Jean-Marie Dumont/Alexander W. Wetzlich/Nicolas Schmit/Adrian Watt/Chris Wilson) runs in the CUP1 class as a soloist. Jean-Marie Dumont qualified the car in 29th position overall with a 2:31.395 minute lap time.
