GT: WRT Audi fills Baku BSS front row

By Stuart Codling

Saturday, November 1st 2014, 14:06 GMT

WRT Audi driver Stephane Ortelli snatched pole position for the final round of the Blancpain Sprint Series by 0.038 seconds from team-mate and overall Blancpain GT title hopeful Laurens Vanthoor.

"I was a bit disappointed at being told I was P2," said Vanthoor, "but when I heard it was Stephane [ahead], my team-mate from last year, it wasn't so bad."

Jeroen Bleekemolen, who retains an outside chance of winning the BSS title, was third fastest in a Grasser Racing Lamborghini beset by ABS problems, while Sprint points leader Maximilian Gotz qualified his HTP Mercedes seventh.

"I had a big issue in Q2," said Bleekemolen, "the same as we had in Slovakia, where the front-left locked up.

"We really rely on the ABS here. Fortunately it started working again, but then I had a bit of traffic in Q3.

"It's a shame because I'd let the guy past on his fast lap and he didn't return the favour."

After extended rainfall earlier in the day the track slowly dried out during the session, which ended in twilight, 30 minutes behind schedule, after three enforced stoppages.

The first part of the session was red-flagged twice. With 7m44s left on the clock, Vincent Abril hit the wall at the exit of the final corner in the WRT Audi R8 he shares with fellow Silver Cup frontrunner Mateusz Lisowski, losing a wheel.

The second stoppage came with 38s remaining after many drivers went out for a last-ditch attempt to improve their times.

Thirteenth-placed Marc Basseng took too much kerb at the exit of the second chicane as he began his first flying lap after leaving the pits, removing the front-left corner of his Phoenix Audi.

Benjamin Hetherington also brought out the red flags, mid-way through the second segment of the qualifying session, when he strayed wide in the Fortec Mercedes at the final corner and twitched into the outside barrier.

LEADING QUALIFYING TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	S.Richelmi, S.Ortelli	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi	1m30.033s	-
2	C.Ramos, L.Vanthoor	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi	1m30.071s	0.038s
3	H.Proczyk, J.Bleekemolen	GRT Grasser Racing Team	Lamborghini	1m30.193s	0.160s
4	C.van der Drift, F.Vervisch	Boutsen Ginion Racing	McLaren	1m30.219s	0.186s
5	J.Adam, A.Soucek	Beechdean AMR	Aston Martin	1m30.295s	0.262s
6	J.Klingmann, D.Baumann	BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert	BMW	1m30.374s	0.341s
7	M.Gotz, M.Buhk	HTP Motorsport	Mercedes	1m30.554s	0.521s
8	C.Mies, K.van der Linde	Prosperia ABT Racing	Audi	1m30.802s	0.769s
9	M.Holzer, M.Ragginger	Schutz Motorsport	Porsche	1m30.816s	0.783s
10	R.Sperafico, R.Sperafico	BMW Sports Trophy Team Brasil	BMW	1m30.900s	0.867s

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