“We’re facing one of the most thrilling editions of the 24 Hours of Spa,” says Chris Reinke, Head of Audi Sport customer racing. “The gaps were already extremely small in all the practice sessions on Thursday. The performances delivered by the ten marques in the final qualifying were very balanced. So, in that respect, we’re completely happy with grid position three and the other results. The drivers and teams are well prepared for the race because we’ve completed all our programs jointly in every respect.”
Thursday’s qualifying had already showed how close the competition was with 36 cars having qualified within one second of each other. The 20 fastest of them were within just 0.464 seconds and advanced into the super pole qualifying.
On Thursday, four other Audi driver squads had qualified for the remaining grid positions. Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Dries Vanthoor (Audi Sport Team WRT) in position 21 missed out on the super pole qualifying by only four thousandths of a second. Nathanaël Berthon/Stéphane Richelmi/Benoît Tréluyer (Belgian Audi Club Team WRT) achieved position 37. Josh Caygill/Richard Lyons/Niki Mayr-Melnhof/Jon Venter (Belgian Audi Club Team WRT) are in 15th of the Pro-Am class and 46th overall. Fred Bouvy/Christian Kelders/Marc Rostan (Saintéloc Racing) took grid position four in the Am class and 57th in the field.
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