Bailey beaten, but Lister still on pole

This will be Swiss driver Favre's first international pole position since his 1989 F3000 pole at Silverstone. "That was my last competitive car," he explained. "I did the Daytona 24 Hours with Nicolaus Springer and Peter Hardman this year, and after Hardman left the team, they called me. I did not expect to be in the FIA GT Championship, and it was a very big and pleasant surprise."

Former F1 driver Bailey was fastest in the afternoon, but the with temperatures soaring, the session was generally slower. "If the weather stays the same tomorrow, it will be OK," Bailey said. "This is going to be the hardest race of the year, especially with 100 kg penalty weight."

The second row of the grid will be occupied by the Paul Belmondo Racing Chrysler Vipers, with Derichebourg and Vosse qualifying ahead of Gosselin and Belmondo. The Carsport Holland line-up of Hezemans and Hart was fifth fastest, after hitting traffic problems on his fastest laps. "There is no way I could have got down to challenge for pole - we simply have too much weight," said Hezemans.

The N-GT pole went to Le Mans pole-sitter Christophe Bouchut, in the Larbre Competition Porsche 996 GT3-R. His time of 1:42.274 was set in the morning, with the team concentrating on race set-up in the afternoon. Luca Riccitelli was second fastest in the RWS Red-Bull Porsche, with the EMKA GTC Porsche driven by Tim Sudgen in third.

The KRT Lamborghini Diablo, has once more been forced to withdraw after a crash in free practice put them out of the Silverstone race. This time a gearbox failure in the first session ended their weekend early.

Round 5 - Hungaroring - Combined Qualifying Results

Ps.No. Driver , Car Lap Time

1 15 GT Springer/Favre Lister Lister Storm 1:38.138
2 14 GT Bailey/CampbellWalter Lister Lister Storm 1:38.324
3 12 GT Derichebourg/Vosse Belmondo Chry Viper 1:38.741
4 11 GT Gosselin/Belmondo Belmondo Chry Viper 1:39.915
5 25 GT Hezemans/Hart Carsport Chry. Viper 1:39.988
6 4 GT Hane/Palmberger Freisinger Porsche 911 1:40.896
7 5 GT Konrad/von Gartzen Konrad Porsche 911 1:41.068
8 3 GT Kaufmann/Wollek Freisinger Porsche 911 1:41.094
9 1 GT Watson/Illes Chamberlain Chry. Viper 1:41.185
10 21 GT Cappellari/Matteuzzi Racing Box Chry. Viper 1:41.364
11 52 NGT Bouchut/Goueslard Larbre Porsche 996 1:42.274
12 77 NGT Riccitelli/Willems RWS Porsche 996 1:42.754
13 27 GT Sabatini/Spinelli/Villa Autorlando Porsche 911 1:42.997
14 22 GT Wieth/Wieth Wieth Porsche 911 1:43.179
15 56 NGT O'Rourke/Sugden EMKA GTC Porsche 996 1:43.195
16 51 NGT Nearn/Neugarten G-Force Porsche 996 1:43.801
17 50 NGT Wallinder/Smith G-Force Porsche 996 1:43.976
18 55 NGT Bertuzzi/Masselli ART Porsche 996 1:43.988
19 67 NGT Collini/Mancini MAC Porsche 996 1:44.672
20 66 NGT Frigerio/Rapetti MAC Porsche 996 1:44.869
21 79 NGT Höfer/Peter/Quester RWS Porsche 996 1:44.966
22 28 GT Felbermayr/Felbermayr RWS Porsche 991 1:45.072
23 7 GT Reid/Reid Proton Porsche 911 1:45.278
24 6 GT Thiel/Jurasz Konrad Porsche 911 1:45.391
25 53 NGT Arhlé/Bourdais/Chereau Larbre Porsche 996 1:45.465