The two 15-minute qualifying sessions for the opening round of the 2022 Michelin Le Mans Cup took place this afternoon.
The GT3 field saw a dominant showing by debuting Danish outfit GMB Motorsport, with the #44 Honda NSX GT3 Evo 2022 of Jens Moller and the sister #55 Honda of Kristian Poulsen battling it out for the top spot.
Moller went to the head of the timing screens at the halfway point of the session, with Poulsen challenging his teammate on several occasions but unable to close the gap.
Moller finished on a 1:56.314 lap, 0.4 seconds ahead of Poulsen, with Emanuele Busnelli putting the #46 Ebimotors Porsche 911 GT3 R in third spot ahead of the third GMB Motorsport Honda NSX of Lars Pedersen.
The 31 car LMP3 field took to the track for their session, and it was a straight battle for pole between the #11 WTM Racing Duqueine of Torsten Kratz and the #29 MV2S Forestier Racing Ligier of Jerome de Sadeleer.
The two cars swapped places at the head of the timing screens, with Kratz putting in a final lap of 1:50.508 to claim his debut pole position by just 0.152s in front of De Sadeleer’s Ligier.
The second row for Saturday afternoon’s race will be headed by the #10 Racing Spirit of Leman Ligier, with Alexander Mattschull finishing the session on a 1:51.123s lap, just 0.171s ahead of the #17 IDEC Sport Ligier of Charles Crews.
