Double Pole For Cool Racing – Grunewald Muscles Kessel To GTE Pole

Swiss team Cool Racing will start tomorrow’s 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps with cars at the head of the LMP2 and LMP3 grids.

The LMP2 pole position was secured by reigning ELMS champion Yifei Ye, the Chinese driver making an early bid with a 2:04.515 lap just before the session was red flagged due to a the #43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca spinning and ending up stranded in the middle of the track.

With less than 6 minutes left on the clock the session restarted and there was a flurry of activity as all the teams headed out for a quick lap.Patrick Pilet in the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca was the first driver to post a 2:03s lap with a 2:03.851, while the rest of the field jostled for 2nd place.

As the chequered flag approached Yifei Ye crossed the line in 2:03.544 to secure pole position for the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 0.307s ahead of the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca in second spot.Third on the grid will be taken by the #65 Panis Racing Oreca after Nico Jamin posted a 2:04.172 to push the #22 United Autosports Oreca of Phil Hanson into 4th spot at the chequered flag.

LMP3 – Five from Five for Malthe Jakobsen and Cool Racing

The #17 Cool Racing Ligier-Nissan will start the fifth race of the 2022 ELMS season from the class pole for the fifth time thanks to a 2:11.062 lap from young Dane Malthe Jakobsen, who finished the 12-minute session 0.8 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

The #2 United Autosports Ligier of Kay Van Berlo will start alongside the lead car after the Dutch driver put in a 2:11.922 lap around the 7km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, 0.860s behind the no17 Ligier and 0.3s ahead of Nico Pino in the #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier.

The only Duqueine on the 13 car LMP3 grid finished the session in 4th place, the DKR Engineering run car posted a 2:12.346 lap in the hands of Sebastian Alvarez.

LMGTE – First Pole for Grunewald on ELMS Debut

The #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari secured pole position for the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, with American Conrad Grunewald putting the Swiss team at the front of the LMGTE grid on his ELMS debut after muscling his way to the front of the GTE train at the start of the session.

Grunewald made an early bid for pole with a 2:17.183 lap, which he improved to 2:17.074, a time that was never bettered during the 12-minute session. Second on the grid went to the no69 Oman Racing with TF Sport Aston Martin of Ahmad Al Harthy, the Omani finishing on a 2:18.185 lap. 1.111s behind the yellow Ferrari.

Third fastest was the #32 Rinaldi Racing Ferrari of Diego Alessi, pushing the #83 Iron Lynx Ferrari of Sarah Bovy into 4th at the end of the session by just 0.036s.

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