Christian Engelhart announces Joos Sportwagentechnik back at the top: Best time in rain qualifying – championship leader only on row five
This pole position is very important: Christian Engelhart played to the strengths of the Porsche 911 GT3 R in the rain in qualifying at the ADAC GT Masters at the Lausitzring and secured pole for Saturday’s race for himself and Ayhancan Güven.
Engelhart set the fastest time of 1:35.598 minutes about halfway through the session. The former champion thus remained 0.137 seconds ahead of Patric Niederhauser, who took the front row in the 1 (Mies/Zimmermann) into the top 10 in eighth place thanks to Tim Zimmermann. Championship candidate Jusuf Owega, the fastest of Friday, however, only managed 13th place.
The entire field took to the track as soon as the pit lights changed. With each lap, the times fell in the first half. Then the times settled in the range of 1:35 minutes.
Audi Sport driver @P_Niederhauser qualified second for the weekend’s opening ADAC @gtmasters race at the @Lausitzring_en He is sharing the 15 Rutronik Racing Audi R8 LMS with fellow Audi Sport driver Luca Engstler.
☻ https://t.co/lBfInMa54IPerformanceIsAnAttitude GT3 pic.twitter.com/Q0JKMrnzDx
– Audi Sport (@audisport) August 20, 2022
Dienst set the scene in the ZVO Mercedes 8 (Dienst/Marschalkowski) and cracked the 1:36 mark in first place. His time was to be beaten only four more times: Costa, Paul, Niederhauser and Engelhart.
Several cars came into the pits in the second half of the session to adjust air pressures, including Marciello, who was only P13 at this point.
There were several spectacular interludes during the practice session, but all of them ended smoothly. Florian Spengler in the
