Sonic Motor Racing debutant Simon Fallon will start the opening race of the Porsche Michelin GT3 Cup Challenge Australia season from pole position after a difficult qualifying session met with a variety of conditions.
Much of the 25-car field started the session on slick Michelin tyres, though rain quickly fell and teams were forced to pit. Then the session was met with two consecutive red flags, making it difficult to get a clean lap on the first wet session of the weekend.
Fallon, who was the cause of the final red flag, ended the session with the top time, ahead of Friday pace-setter Cooper Murray and Chelsea Angelo in third.
Brett Boulton was the leading Pro-Am driver in fourth outright from Danny Stutterd, Class B leader Christian Pancione, Luis Leeds, Jimmy Vernon, Max Vidau and Michael Hovey in 10th.
The 50-monute race one will be held at 3:10pm on Saturday.
Results: Round 1, Qualifying
Position | Car | Driver | Class | Fastest Lap | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 96 | Simon Fallon | Pro | 2:10.8345 | |
2 | 36 | Cooper Murray | Pro | 2:11.1328 | 0:00.2983 |
3 | 38 | Chelsea Angelo | Pro | 2:13.0022 | 0:02.1677 |
4 | 84 | Brett Boulton | Pro-Am | 2:14.1751 | 0:03.3406 |
5 | 23 | Daniel Stutterd | Pro | 2:14.3955 | 0:03.5610 |
6 | 76 | Christian Pancione | Class B | 2:15.0036 | 0:04.1691 |
7 | 230 | Luis Leeds | Pro | 2:15.1808 | 0:04.3463 |
8 | 7 | Jimmy Vernon | Pro | 2:16.5762 | 0:05.7417 |
9 | 77 | Max Vidau | Pro | 2:18.9908 | 0:08.1563 |
10 | 73 | Michael Hovey | Pro-Am | 2:19.3912 | 0:08.5567 |
11 | 29 | Rob Woods | Pro-Am | 2:21.5024 | 0:10.6679 |
12 | 17 | Marcel Zalloua | Pro-Am | 2:22.5317 | 0:11.6972 |
13 | 99 | Ross McGregor | Pro-Am | 2:26.4435 | 0:15.6090 |
14 | 57 | Richard Bloomfield | Class B | 2:27.4257 | 0:16.5912 |
15 | 10 | Michael Loccisano | Pro-Am | 2:27.9311 | 0:17.0966 |
16 | 131 | Graham Williams | Pro-Am | 2:30.2567 | 0:19.4222 |
17 | 65 | Ben Stack | Pro-Am | 2:30.8235 | 0:19.9890 |
18 | 50 | Adrian Lengbeek | Class B | 2:33.4614 | 0:22.6269 |
19 | 2 | Dan Day | Pro | 3:17.9567 | 1:07.1222 |
20 | 13 | Sam Shahin | Pro-Am | ||
21 | 21 | Shane Barwood | Pro-Am | ||
22 | 91 | Emanuel Palyaris | Class B | ||
23 | 22 | Andrew Goldie | Class B | ||
26 | Tom Taplin | Class B | |||
88 | Phil Morriss | Class B |