Maserati Fastest, Corvette on Pole

In a 45-minute session in which only three cars bettered their morning times, the German pair in the Maserati went almost a second quicker than anyone else to head the timesheets, but they will start only fourth, where they finished the morning session.

Fresh from his victory with Aston Martin at Silverstone, Pedro Lamy was to the fore again, this time in the Larbre Competition Ferrari 550 Maranello which he shares with Gabriele Gardel. They set the second best time, as they had in the morning and will start second.

Third best this afternoon was the pole-winning Chevy of Mike Hezemans, Anthony Kumpen and Bert Longin with the Konrad Motorsport Saleen S7 R of Walter Lechner Jr and Matteo Bobbi making it four different car in the top four in the session.

Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller beat their Gruppe M Racing teammates Emmanuel Collard and Tim Sugden to the top time in this session, but it is the Anglo-French Sugden/Collard Porsche GT3 RSR crew which will sit on the GT2 pole tomorrow, courtesy of its better session one time.

2005 FIA GT Championship - Imola Qualifying 2:

Pos Drivers                   Make                   Time             Laps
 1. Bartels/Scheider          Maserati MC12 GT1      1:47.799           17
 2. Lamy/Gardel               Ferrari 550 Maranello  1:48.735 +  0.936  21
 3. Longin/Kumpen/Hezemans    Corvette C5R           1:49.063 +  1.264  17
 4. Lechner/Bobbi             Saleen S7 R            1:49.123 +  1.324  18
 5. Melo/Belloc               Ferrari 575 Maranello  1:49.133 +  1.334  23
 6. Ruberti/Camathias         Saleen S7 R            1:49.176 +  1.377  15
 7. Babini/Biagi              Maserati MC12 GT1      1:49.318 +  1.519  24
 8. Bertolini/Wendlinger      Maserati MC12 GT1      1:49.544 +  1.745  21
 9. Deletraz/Piccini          Ferrari 575 Maranello  1:50.197 +  2.398  19
10. Keen/Halliday             Lister Storm GT        1:50.906 +  3.107  16
11. Bouchut/Fomenko/Vasiliev  Ferrari 550 Maranello  1:51.187 +  3.388  22
12. Becker/Hermann            Saleen S7 R            1:51.914 +  4.115  15
13. Casoni/Varini/Panzavuota  Saleen S7 R            1:52.999 +  5.200   6
14. Collard/Sugden            Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:53.226 +  5.427  20
15. Lieb/Rockenfeller         Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:53.800 +  6.001  19
16. Moccia/Busnelli           Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:55.522 +  7.723  11
17. Kuppens/Leinders          Vertigo Streiff        1:56.144 +  8.345   4
18. Kaufmann/Moro             Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:56.197 +  8.398  15
19. Balfe/Derbyshire          Mosler MT900R          1:56.452 +  8.653  10
20. Wilson/MacAri             Ferrari 360 Modena     1:58.165 + 10.366  18
21. Vonka/Amaduzzi/Castro     Porsche 996 GT3 RS     2:00.081 + 12.282  16
22. Ried/Ried                 Porsche 996 GT3 RS     2:02.031 + 14.232  20
23. Stanco/Janus              Saleen S7 R            2:10.086 + 22.287   8
24. Peter/Buncombe/Rusinov    Maserati MC12 GT1      No Time

2005 FIA GT Championship - Combined Qualifying Result:

Pos Drivers                   Make                   Time             Laps
 1. Longin/Kumpen/Hezemans    Corvette C5R           1:45.835           28
 2. Lamy/Gardel               Ferrari 550 Maranello  1:46.126 +  0.291  32
 3. Peter/Buncombe/Rusinov    Maserati MC12 GT1      1:46.227 +  0.392  19
 4. Bartels/Scheider          Maserati MC12 GT1      1:46.373 +  0.538  29
 5. Bouchut/Fomenko/Vasiliev  Ferrari 550 Maranello  1:46.466 +  0.631  33
 6. Ruberti/Camathias         Saleen S7 R            1:46.636 +  0.801  31
 7. Babini/Biagi              Maserati MC12 GT1      1:46.639 +  0.804  40
 8. Deletraz/Piccini          Ferrari 575 Maranello  1:47.049 +  1.214  39
 9. Lechner/Bobbi             Saleen S7 R            1:47.261 +  1.426  36
10. Bertolini/Wendlinger      Maserati MC12 GT1      1:47.297 +  1.462  34
11. Melo/Belloc               Ferrari 575 Maranello  1:47.549 +  1.714  41
12. Keen/Halliday             Lister Storm GT        1:49.527 +  3.692  33
13. Casoni/Varini/Panzavuota  Saleen S7 R            1:51.050 +  5.215  26
14. Collard/Sugden            Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:51.082 +  5.247  30
15. Becker/Hermann            Saleen S7 R            1:51.417 +  5.582  35
16. Lieb/Rockenfeller         Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:51.835 +  6.000  30
17. Stanco/Janus              Saleen S7 R            1:51.935 +  6.100  20
18. Balfe/Derbyshire          Mosler MT900R          1:52.752 +  6.917  29
19. Moccia/Busnelli           Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:53.171 +  7.336  25
20. Kuppens/Leinders          Vertigo Streiff        1:56.144 + 10.309   4
21. Kaufmann/Moro             Porsche 996 GT3 RSR    1:56.197 + 10.362  30
22. Ried/Ried                 Porsche 996 GT3 RS     1:57.905 + 12.070  39
23. Wilson/MacAri             Ferrari 360 Modena     1:58.165 + 12.330  31
24. Vonka/Amaduzzi/Castro     Porsche 996 GT3 RS     1:59.421 + 13.586  34