Pole position honours were shared between the Rollcentre Mosler and the Trackspeed Porsche at Rockingham yesterday evening in official qualifying for tomorrow’s rounds of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
Qualifying one saw Gregor Fisken win the battle of the gentleman racers, the Scottish driver - a winner in British GT last season - hauling his Mosler around the Rockingham track in 1m 22.102s to nick the pole for Round 6 from under the nose of Trackspeed driver David Ashburn in the closing moments. Ashburn’s Porsche will line up second on the grid, ahead of the Argentine Chad Racing Ferrari of Juan Garriz, which recovered well after missing most of free practice with mechanical problems.
Second qualifying brought revenge for Trackspeed, whose Glynn Geddie pipped the MTECH Ferrari of Matt Griffin to top spot by a tenth of a second, setting a best time of 1m 20.561s, with Adam Wilcox third quickest in the Predator CCTV Ferrari.
There will be no Preci-Spark Ascari on the grid tomorrow: engine trouble sidelined the Jones brothers’ car in free practice.
In the G4 class, it was a double-top for the Piranha Motorsport Lotus 2-Eleven, Chris Bialan quickest in qualifying one and his team-mate Simon Mason comfortably quickest in session two, ahead of championship returnee Michael Mallock in the Chad-prepared KTM X-Bow.
Rounds six and seven are scheduled for this afternoon at ‘The Rock’. British GT is sponsored by UK tyre manufacturer Avon Tyres and is further supported by Sunoco Racing Fuels, Anglo American Oil Company and The Independent.
Provisional qualifying times, Rockingham 17/7/2010
Round 6Overall & GT31 Rollcentre Mosler MT900 Gregor Fisken 1m 22.102s2 Trackspeed Porsche 911 GT3R David Ashburn 1m 22.175s3 Chad Ferrari 430 Juan Garriz (ARG) 1m 22.259s4 MTECH Ferrari 430 Scud Duncan Cameron 1m 22.726s5 Chad Ferrari 430 Scud Chris Hyman (RSA) 1m 23.275s6 GT3 Racing Viper CC Craig Wilkins 1m 23.343s7 Chad Ferrari 430 Scud Paul Warren 1m 23.413s8 RPM Motorsport Ford GT Philip Walker 1m 24.008s9 Predator CCTV Ferrari 430 Scud Phil Burton 1m 24.066s
G4 Class1 Piranha Motorsport Lotus 2-Eleven Chris Bialan 1m 26.080s2 Speedworks Ginetta G50 Jamie Stanley 1m 26.815s3 Chad Racing KTM X-Bow Athanasios Ladas (GRE) 1m 28.501s4 Team Osborne Ginetta G50 Osman Yusuf 1m 29.896s5 Century Motorsport Vibe Smed 1m 31.019s
Round 7Overall & GT31 Trackspeed Porsche 911 GT3R Glynn Geddie 1m 20.561s2 MTECH Ferrari 430 Scud Matt Griffin (IRL) 1m 20.579s3 Predator CCTV Ferrari 430 Scud Adam Wilcox 1m 20.659s4 RPM Motorsport Ford GT Alex Mortimer 1m 20.680s5 Chad Ferrari 430 Scud Tom Ferrier 1m 20.841s6 Rollcentre Mosler MT900 Martin Short 1m 20.984s7 GT3 Racing Viper CC Aaron Scott 1m 21.307s8 Chad Ferrari 430 Scud Dan Brown 1m 22.525s9 Chad Ferrari 430 Jose Balbiani (ARG) 1m 22.833s
G4 Class1 Piranha Motorsport Lotus 2-Eleven Simon Mason 1m 25.142s2 Chad Racing KTM X-Bow Michael Mallock 1m 25.303s3 Century Motorsport Nathan Freke 1m 25.972s4 Speedworks Ginetta G50 Christian Dick 1m 26.919s5 Team Osborne Ginetta G50 Joe Osborne 1m 27.921s
