Jaxon Evans and his Phantom Global Racing team will line up from 18th in Sunday’s 24 Hours of Spa.
The team, consisting of Evans, Joel Eriksson and Thomas Preining, qualified for the Superpole Shootout as the sixth-fastest and the best-placed Porsche.
In this morning’s Superpole, Preining was one of several competitors to incur a penalty for not meeting the target out-lap time, with the margin by which he missed the target added to his best lap.
A 1.286-second addition made his best effort a 2:15.557, which dropped them out of the top ten to 18th.
The Earl Bamber Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) of Bamber, Brendon Leitch, Adrian D’Silva and Kerong Li will battle from the back row after the car was left beached in the gravel during Friday’s session with Li at the wheel.
The two-part qualifying programme consisted of a timed session, where the average time of each of the 66 entries was determined following sessions from each driver, before the top 20 teams returned for Superpole, with one driver nominated from each to qualify.
Lamborghini will start the centenary 24 Hours of Spa from the pole, with Franck Perera setting a 2:13.718 in the #163 Grasser Racing Team Huracan GT3 EVO2 he shares with Marco Mapelli and Jordan Pepper.
That was just 0.036s faster than Lucas Auer managed in the Mercedes AMG Team Mann-Filter Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.
The first Ferrari, the #51 AF Corse 296 GT3, lines up third, next to Team Attempto Racing’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II. Thus, four different manufacturers are represented on the first four grids.
The Bronze-classe Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO qualified ninth and lines up next to the first Porsche, the SSR Herberth 911 GT3 R (992) of Mathieu Jaminet, Frederic Makowiecki and Australian star Matt Campbell.
The 2024 24 Hours of Spa begins at 2.00 am on Sunday NZST and is being broadcast live and free on motorsport.tv.
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