The Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing machine, co-piloted by Dani Juncadella and Chris Lulham, moved to the topped the times in the second GT World Challenge powered by AWS Free Practice session of the weekend at Brands Hatch this afternoon (Saturday).
The car lapped the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in 1m22.932s, in the final running prior to qualifying later on today, which will set the grid for the first of two Sprint Cup races on Sunday. The best effort was just over a tenth of a second clear of the next fastest car, British driver Dean Macdonald and co-driver and Marvin Kirchhofer in a Garage 59 McLaren.
Behind that, less than three further hundredths back was the leading Porsche, the Lionspeed GP entry of Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus. A further tenth separated them from the first of two more cars from the marque, both of which from the Boutsen VDS stable. Gilles Magnus and Robin Knutsson were the quicker pairing of the pair in fourth, with Dorian Boccolacci and Morris Schuring’s entry completing the top five.
Charles Weerts and Kelvin Van Der Linde followed on from topping the earlier practice session with an other competitive showing in sixth, one place clear of Konsta Lappalainen and Matteo Cairoli’s Emil Frey Racing Ferrari, while Matias Zagazeta and Tommaso Mosca delivered the best placing of the weekend so far for an AF Corse Ferrari in eighth.
MotoGP icon Valentino Rossi and Max Hesse were ninth in their shared Team WRT BMW, while Arthur Leclerc and Thomas Neubauer completed the top 10 in another AF Corse entry.
GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS, Free Practice 2, Brands Hatch
- Juncadella/Lulham, Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO, 1m22.932s
- Macdonald/Kirchhofer, Garage 59, McLaren 720S GT3 EVO, +0.105s
- Feller/Buus, Lionspeed GP, Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO, +0.134s
- Knutsson/Magnus, Boutsen VDS, Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO, +0.243s
- Boccolacci/Schuring, Boutsen VDS, Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO, +0.371s
- Weerts/Van Der Linde, Team WRT, BMW M4 GT3 EVO, +0.373s
- Lappalainen/Cairoli, Emil Frey Racing, Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO, +0.410s
- Zagazeta/Mosca, AF Corse, Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO, +0.425s
- Rossi/Hesse, Team WRT, BMW M4 GT3 EVO, +0.461s
- Leclerc/Neubauer, AF Corse, Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO, +0.486s
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