Pole Shootout Spots Decided after Q3! | Indianapolis 8 Hour | IGTC + Fanatec GT America 2024

Surprise here to see Hesser 14th so far in this session but again they're well inside that top ten so maybe that's all they're thinking about right now just lay down a solid lap as we said there's a complete reset nothing that you've set in the top ten rolls forward to the pole shootout so you don't need to dig any deep take any risk just a bit of an ego thing you're a couple of tenths slower than your teammates. Two pro-am cars appear in a position to move to pole shootout this is one of them with Arjun Maini driving at the moment second fastest of those two pro-am cars combining the times. Maini's got a good lap going this could give them a bit more of a buffer. Nip him up a couple of spots at least yes it does up to seventh in this session. Doesn't affect the combined order but again just gives them a bit more breathing room as time runs out. In the third and final session of qualifying this is Janik Mettler another Swiss driver in as part of his driving lineup Alex Fontana and then Hash is the third driver there. Oh big moment for Guven. He was asking for a lot from that race car right there and that's where the tires are just peaking a little bit you asked for and the grip levels not up you're asking for more performance as the tires are going over the edge a little bit. Only looking for more time there's just not much to be found past the peak I think it's safe to say on the Pirelli P Zeros. Yeah he's gonna bail I think save those tires for another day. So barring a major shake-up it looks like it will be Mercedes AMG sweeping the front row well I speak too soon that's not right taking the top two spots headed to pole shootout then we'll see who sweeps the front row but Mercedes with three cars in a position to move on four from BMW three from Porsche German manufacturers as they are want to do controlling the top of this session. Across the line three tenths down on his previous best so that's not going to move him up the order currently 15th in this session Crucially Calvin for the North American Pro Championship Tommy Builder and the rest of that number 63 team the best they can muster 15th. They've got some work to do because the car they're chasing for the championship is moving through to pole shootout and it has the reigning pole sitter in this event in that car and I suspect he's the one likely to do the qualifying honors later on this evening. Yeah Filipella's digging deep see we can come up with what doesn't look to be good enough at the moment late in this run however. Checkered flag is out just a handful of cars still on the track Mettler is one Hinman is another Trent has RS1 inside the top 10 and it's a big performance for them with a young driver as part of that lineup Jake Peterson who does not have much experience at all and Kai van Berlo who has some but relatively limited GT3 experience he's got a chance to go for a GT4 championship here this weekend one of several drivers pulling double duty it was the big surprise here in this session Philip Ellis 21st Brian Sellers and Tommy Milner DXDT two charges 22nd and 23rd out of 23 drivers Corvettes head scratcher. Now they knew it wasn't going to come easy after winning eight in a row trying to extend that and go for the unexpected championship in a partial schedule they brought in Alexander Sims to help the effort and it's not all just about pure pace come race day they'll do what they can to drag that Corvette to the front but here are your combined results through three groups of qualifying Gunan, Engel and Grenier combining for the fastest average time at a 1.23 4.35