Stéphane Tribaudini, Renaud Kuppens, Paolo Biglieri and Shota Abkhazava are the four polemen for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals that will take place between today and tomorrow on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit.
Glorious sunshine since the early hours on the track named after Angel Nieto greeted the best AM and LAMBORGHINI CUP categories drivers from the Asia, North America and Europe series fighting it out to define the starting grids for the two races.
Q1
In the 20 minutes of Q1, Tribaudini was the one who made all the running in the AM Class to take the overall, at the end of a session marked by various interruptions; the first red flag was caused by Oliver Freymuth (AKF Motorsport) after a few minutes, while halfway through Diego Locanto (DL Racing) had a spin, bringing a halt to everything once again.
The VSR driver stopped the clock at 1m44.582s, beating by half-a-second Stéphane Lemeret (CMR), who improved in the final stages together with Glen McGee (WTR Andretti), overtaking Renaud Kuppens (Boutsen VDS), who was ahead for a long time but then relegated to fourth place with a gap of 1.2s.
The third row of the grid saw David Staab (PPM) alongside Han Huilin (Target Racing), while with the seventh overall time Shota Abkhazava (ART-Line) took the pole position in the LC Class, well ahead of his direct rivals.
Andrzej Lewandowski put the ASR ST in eighth position, followed by Dominic Starkweather (PPM) and Xuanyu Lin (610 Racing by Absolute) who completed the Top10.
In LC the second position went to Donovan Privitelio (Rexal Villorba Corse), who will start 15th overall, while two positions further back can be found Nicholas Groat (One Motorsports).
Holger Harmsen (GT3 Poland) and Petar Matic (ASR) were in the Top 5 of the category and will start from the tenth row of the grid, while further behind are Freymuth - who managed to rejoin - and Alfredo Hernandez Ortega (BDR-Grupo Prom).
Q2
In the second part of the qualifying session, an interruption almost 12 minutes from the end was caused by Luciano Privitelio, who finished in the gravel of turn 10 without suffering any major damage.
Paolo Biglieri (ASR) immediately moved into the lead in 1m45.927s, securing the overall and in LC, keeping behind a quartet of AMs led by Kuppens, who finished just 65 thousandths away from the Italian-Argentinean driver.
Garrett Adams (Ansa Motorsports) and Anthony McIntosh (PPM) completed the second row, followed by David Staab (PPM), while Abkhazava was sixth and in second place in LC, keeping behind a bunch of AMs.
In seventh position is Laurent Hurgon (Schumacher CLRT), 0.7s behind the leader, who will be joined on the fourth row by Huilin Han (Target Racing), with Andrzej Lewandowski (ASR) and Changwoo Lee (SQDA-GRIT) completing the Top 10.
In LC, third place went to Groat, this time 17th, while in 19th and 20th place can be found Holger Harmsen (GT3 Poland) and Freymuth, in the Top 5 of the category.
Race 1 of the AM+LC Final is scheduled for 13:55.
