Ferrari factory driver Calado takes pole for Spa 24 Hours in 488 GT3
Ferrari factory driver James Calado secured pole position for the Spa 24 Hours Endurance Cup round of the Blancpain GT Series
The Briton jumped to the top spot in the times on his second lap in the 'superpole' qualifying session aboard the AF Corse-run Kaspersky Motorsport Ferrari 488 GT3.
His time of 2m17.390s gave him to the pole by just under six hundredths of a second from Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti.
"That was 100%," Calado said. "I did an 2m18.8s in the warm-up [before final qualfiying for the fastest 20 cars], so I couldn't believe I did a 2m17.3s - and I made a mistake in the last corner.
"With all the fantastic drivers in this series, it's great to come out on top."
Bortolotti's 2m17.447s in the best of the Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3s was good enough for a front row spot.
He ended up two tenths clear of the 2m17.630s set by Frederic Vervisch in the fastest of the Belgian WRT team's pair of Audi R8 LMS factory entries.
Laurens Vanthoor and Jonny Adam ended up on the same time of 2m17.674s in their respective entries from the Team 75 Porsche squad and the TF Sport Aston Martin team.
Vanthoor took fourth by virtue of setting his time first in the Porsche 911 RSR run by LMP1 driver Timo Bernhard's team.
Adam was the only driver from the pro-am class to make it through to the 'superpole' session, so was already assured of the point for pole position in the TF Aston Martin V12 Vantage.
Rene Rast completed the top six in the second of the WRT factory cars on a 2m17.726s. Franck Perera was the top Mercedes driver in seventh in his factory HTP Motorsport car.
Philipp Eng took 11th for the Rowe Racing BMW squad, which won the 24 Hours at Spa last year.
Adam subsequently lost his fastest lap because he joined the track outside his allotted time window. That dropped the Aston behind Rast and Perera.
The double-points round of the BGTS starts at 4:30pm local time on Saturday.
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