{"id":56235,"date":"2020-10-03T20:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/index.php\/2020\/10\/03\/championship-rivals-de-haan-and-mitchell-and-collard-and-cowley-share-poles-at-snetterton\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:38:40","slug":"championship-rivals-de-haan-and-mitchell-and-collard-and-cowley-share-poles-at-snetterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/championship-rivals-de-haan-and-mitchell-and-collard-and-cowley-share-poles-at-snetterton\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship rivals De Haan and Mitchell, and Collard and Cowley share poles at Snetterton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Championship rivals Sam De Haan and Sandy Mitchell shared the GT3 spoils during British GT Championship qualifying at Snetterton earlier today, while Jordan Collard and Matt Cowley took a GT4 pole position apiece.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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RAM Racing\u2019s De Haan starts Race 1 from pole after beating Barwell Motorsport\u2019s Rob Collard and 2 Seas\u2019 Jordan Witt in Q1. Mitchell then hit back in Q2 by out-pacing team-mate Phil Keen and RAM\u2019s other Mercedes-AMG driven by Yelmer Buurman. <\/span><\/p>\n

HHC Motorsport grabbed GT4 Race 1 pole courtesy of Collard who lapped 1.1s faster than team-mate Gus Bowers and TF Sport\u2019s championship leader, Dan Vaughan. But the second session and fastest time of all belonged to Academy\u2019s Matt Cowley who denied Patrik Matthiesen a second pole for HHC. TF Sport\u2019s Patrick Kibble completed the top-three. <\/span><\/p>\n

GT3: HONOURS EVEN AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENDERS TRADE POLES<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Victory at Donington ensures Patrick Kujala and Sam De Haan must serve the maximum Pitstop Success Penalty tomorrow. But the latter went some way to easing the burden by claiming pole position for the first 60-minute race. <\/span><\/p>\n

RAM Racing\u2019s championship-leading Mercedes-AMG set a best of 2m06.441s on its final run to ultimately beat Rob Collard by 0.182s. Barwell\u2019s #78 Lamborghini, which lies nine points behind in the title fight, held provisional pole for a time after toppling early pace setter Ian Loggie but couldn\u2019t match either of De Haan\u2019s two session-topping laps. <\/span><\/p>\n

2 Seas Motorsport\u2019s McLarens share row two thanks to late improvements from Jordan Witt and Dean Macdonald, which relegated RAM\u2019s second Mercedes-AMG to fifth. Nevertheless, Loggie still qualified fastest of the Pro\/Am entries and three places clear of his nearest class rival, Michael Igoe. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lewis Proctor (Optimum) and James Baldwin (Jenson Team Rocket RJN) start sixth and seventh, the latter unable to extend his impressive run of three successive fastest Q1 times, while Barwell\u2019s Adam Balon lines up behind WPI\u2019s Igoe. Duncan Cameron\u2019s AF Corse Ferrari completed Q1\u2019s top-10. <\/span><\/p>\n

The wet but steadily improving track conditions meant lap times reduced by two seconds in Q2. But on an afternoon tailor made for Snetterton specialist Phil Keen it was team-mate Sandy Mitchell who set a blistering pace to grab pole. <\/span><\/p>\n

RAM\u2019s Yelmer Buurman initially led from Keen before the Huracan driver hit his stride on the second round of flying laps to turn a 0.090s deficit into a 0.015s advantage. <\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a loose driver safety net was threatening to derail Mitchell\u2019s challenge before it began. But there was no stopping the Black Bull-backed Lamborghini after a quick pitstop helped fully restore visibility. Indeed, the Scot immediately took provisional pole on his first flyer before overturning Keen\u2019s subsequent improvement with arguably the lap of the season. Three purple sectors accounted for a 2m04.303s \u2013 an incredible 0.543s quicker than his team-mate who completed an all-Barwell front row. <\/span><\/p>\n

WPI\u2019s Andrea Caldarelli underlined the Lamborghini\u2019s wet weather prowess by joining Buurman on row two, while Kujala starts two places behind his RAM Racing team-mate in fifth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Balfe\u2019s McLaren lines up sixth courtesy of Joe Osborne who beat Sam Neary by 0.3s. However, ABBA\u2019s Mercedes-AMG will start Race 2 from the tail of the GT3 pack tomorrow after suspension failure prevented the completion of two flying laps, as mandated in the regulations. <\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, Matt Griffin\u2019s AF Corse Ferrari heads up row four alongside Optimum\u2019s Ollie Wilkinson, while 2 Seas\u2019 McLarens once again start line astern in the hands of Angus Fender and Jack Mitchell. <\/span><\/p>\n

GT4: HHC AND ACADEMY START UP FRONT<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Jordan Collard backed up his first win of the season last time out by securing pole position for tomorrow\u2019s opening race at Snetterton. Co-driver Patrik Matthiesen then looked good to make it double delight for HHC and McLaren, only to be denied by a stunning late lap posted by Academy Motorsport\u2019s Matt Cowley. <\/span><\/p>\n

Having topped both practice runs earlier in the day, HHC opted to field Collard in the first 10-minute session in the hope that its form driver could then overturn the 10s Success Penalty \u2013 incurred for winning at Donington \u2013 during Race 1. <\/span><\/p>\n

And it paid dividends with Collard dominating proceedings after James Kell in the Speedworks Toyota and Connor O\u2019Brien\u2019s TF Sport Aston Martin led the early exchanges. <\/span><\/p>\n

Collard\u2019s biggest challenger turned out to be his own team-mate in HHC\u2019s sister 570S, but even Gus Bowers couldn\u2019t get within a second of the #58 car\u2019s 2m13.611s. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Vaughan might have disputed pole. However, two deleted laps for straying beyond track limits kept TF Sport\u2019s #97 Vantage at the bottom of the timesheets before vaulting up to third on the final tour. <\/span><\/p>\n

Joint-championship leader O\u2019Brien was fourth ahead of Will Moore in Academy\u2019s Mustang, Kell\u2019s Toyota, Andrew Gordon-Colebrooke\u2019s Century BMW, Mia Flewitt\u2019s Balfe McLaren and second BMW of Ben Hurst. <\/span><\/p>\n

Q2 would prove far closer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Academy\u2019s Mustang has been formidable since Oulton and maintained that hot streak at Snetterton by claiming pole position for Race 2 thanks to Matt Cowley\u2019s late effort. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chris Wesemael put the McLaren he shares with Bowers fastest early on before Patrick Kibble emerged ahead for TF Sport. <\/span><\/p>\n

But then came Cowley who, after a relatively steady out-lap to judge the conditions, pumped in an effort half-a-second better than anyone else to snatch provisional pole on his penultimate tour. <\/span><\/p>\n

Matthiesen attempted to fight back in the hope of securing a double pole for HHC\u2019s #58 crew, but his best effort missed top spot by just 0.065s. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kibble wound up third and Wesemael fourth after failing to convert a purple first sector on his final lap into a meaningful time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jamie Caroline (TF Sport) starts fifth ahead of the retuning Ben Tuck in Century\u2019s #42 BMW. Euan Hankey took Pro\/Am pole in seventh, with Adam Hatfield bringing the second BMW to eighth, and Sam Smelt\u2019s Toyota in ninth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Watch live coverage of both 60-minute races on British GT\u2019s website and social media from 10:15 on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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