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Silver Cup driver Ulysse de Pauw claimed his second pole place of the Fanatec GT World Problem Europe powered by AWS Dash Cup season for the primary of this weekend’s two 60-minute races at Valencia.
The Belgian posted a time of 1:30.467 with three minutes left within the 20-minute qualifying session to plant his No. 53 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 on the entrance of the grid.
De Pauw additionally took pole for the opening race of the marketing campaign at Manufacturers Hatch, which he and Pierre-Alexandre Jean went on to win outright.
The AF Corse duo sealed the Dash Cup Silver class title earlier than heading to the ultimate spherical at Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
De Pauw led Saturday morning’s qualifying run by 0.152 seconds from Charles Weerts within the No. 32 Group WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II.
Regardless of lacking out on pole, the session had a great final result for Weerts as a result of his and Dries Vanthoor’s predominant title rival Timur Boguslavskiy solely certified sixteenth after having his finest lap time deleted within the No. 89 Akkodis ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.
Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello have an 11.5-point deficit to Weerts and Vanthoor with two races remaining.
Weerts had a few lap occasions deleted on account of monitor limits within the early phases of the session however introduced his Audi to the entrance row with an enchancment after a tire change.
Six Audis certified within the prime eight for Race 1, with Simon Gachet taking third within the No. 11 Tresor by Automotive Assortment machine forward of Attempto Racing’s Pieter Schothorst.
Jim Pla slotted Akkodis ASP’s No. 88 Mercedes-AMG into fifth, breaking the Audi chain.
The Frenchman dropped a number of positions within the stay timing charts in the course of the session however was proven because the fifth-fastest driver within the provisional outcomes.
Silver Cup rivals Gilles Magnus and Thomas Neubauer, who set the early tempo and was the chief till De Pauw’s effort, took sixth and seventh general for Sainteloc Junior Group and WRT whereas Aurelien Panis positioned eighth in Sainteloc’s Professional Audi.
Hugo Delacour took pole within the Professional-Am class driving the No. 21 AF Corse Ferrari.
The Frenchman registered a time of 1:31.795 to beat his Bronze driver contemporaries, with factors chief Miguel Ramos settling for second, simply seven-thousandths behind.
The penultimate race of the GTWC Europe Dash Cup season begins at 2 p.m. CEST (8 a.m. ET).
RESULTS: Qualifying (provisional)
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