Aston Martin Le Mans Festival: Qualifying Results
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Frank Yu claimed pole position for Craft Eurasia Racing in the Aston Martin Le Mans Festival. The Hong Kong based team only received their V12 Vantage GT3 in the week prior to the event. Villois Racing took the GT2 honours and in GT1 Roald Goethe posted the fastest time in his Gulf Racing-Rofgo Collection DBR9.
The very competitive GT4 class was headed by John Gaw & Phil Dryburgh with Aston Martin GT4 Challenge race winners Pierre Mantello & Olivier Bouche just 0.002s behind.
Young Driver AMR will start the race with their Vantage GT3 after discovering a problem with their GT1 DBR9’s chassis and unfortunately Archie Hamilton will take no further part in the event after contact with a GT4 car damaged #60 Gulf Racing Vantage GT2 in yesterday’s practice session.
The race will start 11:15 local time on Saturday.
| POS | CLASS | NUM | TEAM | DRIVERS | TIME | DIFF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GT3 | 12 | Craft Eurasia Racing | Frank Yu / Tomonobu Fujii | 04:00.840 | - |
| 2 | GT2 | 78 | Villois Racing | Brian Lavio / Luca Filippi | 04:04.807 | 3.967 |
| 3 | GT3 | 19 | Barwell Motorsport | Paul Whight / Mark Lemmer | 04:08.891 | 8.051 |
| 4 | GT1 | 69 | Gulf Racing-Rofgo Collection | Roald Goethe | 04:09.688 | 8.848 |
| 5 | GT2 | 21 | Jota | Paul White / Javier Morcillo | 04:13.468 | 12.628 |
| 6 | GT3 | 68 | Villois Racing | Marco Petrini / Alessandro Cicognani | 04:13.758 | 12.918 |
| 7 | GT3 | 32 | 22GT Racing | Tom Alexander / Adrian Willmott | 04:17.328 | 16.488 |
| 8 | GT4 | 6 | Aston Martin Racing | John Gaw / Phil Dryburgh | 04:25.679 | 24.839 |
| 9 | GT4 | 22 | Stratton Motorsport/Immunage Osato | Pierre Mantello / Olivier Bouche | 04:25.681 | 24.841 |
| 10 | INV | 77 | Aston Martin Lagonda | Chris Porritt / Ulrich Bez | 04:26.279 | 25.439 |
| 11 | GT4 | 9 | Schrader Racing/Barwell Motorsport | Fred Schrader / Kevin Buckler | 04:27.092 | 26.252 |
| 12 | GT4 | 18 | Generation AMR | James Appleby / Rob Nimkoff | 04:29.804 | 28.964 |
| 13 | GT4 | 56 | Ultimate Speed Ltd | Richard Taffinder / Tim Eakin | 04:34.841 | 34.001 |
| 14 | GT4 | 20 | Jota | David Clark | 04:35.889 | 35.049 |
| 15 | GT4 | 7 | MB Racing | Mike Brown / Paul Cripps | 04:36.768 | 35.928 |
| 16 | GT4 | 84 | Jota | Rowan Atkinson | 04:37.581 | 36.741 |
| 17 | GT4 | 62 | Stratton Motorsport/Greenberg/Kramer | Kenneth Greenberg | 04:38.969 | 38.129 |
| 18 | GT4 | 1 | Aston Martin Racing | David Richards / Andrew Howard | 04:39.197 | 38.357 |
| 19 | GT4 | 8 | MCD Developments/Fieldfare Trailer | Steven Byrne / Jerry Bailey | 04:40.529 | 39.689 |
| 20 | GT4 | 29 | GPR Pino Racing | Frederic Bloem / Jerome Demay | 04:43.194 | 42.354 |
| 21 | GT4 | 4 | Aston Martin Belgium | Arnold Herreman / Jean-Paul Herreman | 04:44.479 | 43.639 |
| 22 | GT4 | 91 | Stratton Motorsport | Chris Kemp | 04:45.335 | 44.495 |
| 23 | GT4 | 88 | Stratton Motorsport/88 Racing | Sid Sadique / Mark Walker | 04:45.696 | 44.856 |
| 24 | GT4 | 24 | Vantage Racing | Tom Black | 04:47.765 | 46.925 |
| 25 | GT4 | 17 | Blue Barn Racing | Gareth Williams / Martin McGlone | 04:48.111 | 47.271 |
| 26 | GT4 | 47 | Stratton Motorsport | Paul Bartley / Stuart Patterson | 04:50.886 | 50.046 |
| 27 | GT4 | 5 | Mardi Gras Motorsport | Julian Reddyhough / Desmond Smail | 04:54.092 | 53.252 |
| - | GT3 | 2 | Young Driver AMR | Jan Struve / Jac Nellemann | ||
| - | GT1 | 66 | Deboeuf Racing | Thomas Gruber / Marco Seefried |
