Darryl O'Young and Peter Kox's Reiter Lamborghini takes Navarra World GT1 pole
Darryl O'Young will start on pole position for the World GT1 qualifying race at Navarra, after his Reiter Lamborghini team-mate Peter Kox set the fastest time ahead of the third round of the championship
On a circuit where the Lamborghini Murcielago has dominated in GT1's past two visits, Kox ensured the Gallardo would continue its predecessor's form by setting the fastest time in the opening segment of qualifying. O'Young took over and guided the car into the pole position shoot-out, where Kox finished four tenths ahead of the rest of the pack.
The Vita4One team carried over its strong form from Zolder, taking second and third positions on the grid, with the Michael Bartels/Yelmer Buurman BMW Z4 edging out the Mathias Lauda/Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof car by three tenths. Nicky Pastorelli qualified his Mercedes in fourth, but a five-place grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags will see the All-Inkl squad start in ninth.
The second row will instead be completed by last round's winners Matt Haliday and Mike Parisy, in the Exim Bank Team China Porsche.
Stephane Ortelli (WRT Audi) looked set to take a front row grid slot, before being held up by Bartels in the final sector and will line up fifth.
Alvaro Parente was fastest in Q2, but his team-mate Gregoire Demoustier could not repeat the performance, and the Hexis McLaren will start in sixth, ahead of the very impressive Matteo Cressoni/Milos Pavlovic Ford GT.
The first AF Corse Ferrari will line up in eighth, followed by the relegated Pastorelli, with the second Audi of Frank Stippler and Oliver Jarvis completing the top 10.
Pos Drivers Team/Car Time Gap 1. Kox/O'Young Reiter Lamborghini 1m39.248s 2. Bartels/Buurman Vita4One BMW 1m39.621s + 0.373s 3. Lauda/Mayr-Melnhof Vita4One BMW 1m39.928s + 0.680s 4. Pastorelli/Jager Munnich Mercedes 1m40.040s + 0.792s 5. Halliday/Parisy Exim Porsche 1m40.091s + 0.843s 6. Ortelli/Vanthoor WRT Audi 1m40.170s + 0.922s 7. Demoustier/Parente Hexis McLaren 1m40.437s + 1.189s 8. Cressoni/Pavlovic Sunred Ford 1m40.640s + 1.392s 9. Vilander/Salaquarda AF Corse Ferrari 1m40.295s Q2 10. Jarvis/Stippler WRT Audi 1m40.339s Q2 11. Castellacci/Ide AF Corse Ferrari 1m40.474s Q2 12. Basseng/Winkelhock Munnich Mercedes 1m40.691s Q2 13. Enge/von Thurn und Taxis Reiter Lamborghini 1m40.957s Q2 14. Martin/Machitski Valmon Aston 1m43.277s Q2 15. Lariche/Lunardi Exim Porsche 1m41.556s Q1 16. Makowiecki/Dusseldorp Hexis McLaren Q1 17. Zuber/Afanasiev Valmon Aston Q1
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