The inclement weather continued for the Monochrome GT4 Australia Pre-Qualifying session at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Pre-Qualifying revealed the fine margins in each class as the teams prepare for the battle for pole tomorrow morning (Saturday), which will be broadcast on 7plus and live-streamed for international viewers via the GT World YouTube channel.
Am Cup
Shane Smollen led the way in Am Cup again, driving the Method Motorsport-prepared Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS just ahead of Randall Racing’s Jacob Lawrence in his BMW M4 GT4 G82.
Monochrome GT4 Australia debutants Marcus LaDelle and Jarrod Keyte ended the session third in the 99Motorsport Ford Mustang GT4 from Glenn Walker’s Gomersall Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 F82.
Chris Lillis and Nathan Callaghan, driving their Method Motorsport Porsche, complete the Am Cup top five.
Silver Cup
Method Motorsport’s Tom Hayman and Max Geoghegan continued their run at the top of Silver Cup in the McLaren Artura GT4.
Setting a time of 1m 35.432s, the duo led JGI Triple Eight’s Jarrod Hughes and Summer Rintoule in their Mercedes-AMG GT4 by 0.081s.
Winners at Phillip Island, Blake Purdie and Daniel Price in the Nippy’s Audi R8 LMS GT4 finished the session third from the TekworkX Motorsport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS of Nash Morris and Zoe Woods.
The second TekworkX Motorsport Porsche of Josh and Diesel Thomas rounded out Silver Cup's top five.
Silver-Am Cup
Ford Mustang GT4s led the way at the top of Silver-Am, but it was Cameron Crick in the DA Campbell Transport example setting the pace.
To be co-driven by Dean Campbell, Crick set a 1m 34.769s to head the similar Gomersall Racing Mustang of Aaron Seton and Jason Gomersall by 0.151s.
Ending the session third was Zac Soutar and Glenn Nirwan in the Tufflift TSM McLaren Artura GT4, while Rob Rubis had an off at Turn 3 in the Fisherman’s Wharf Seafood Ginetta G55 GT4 as Lachlan Mineeff scored fourth fastest time once it was recovered.
Hugo Allan continued his strong run of pace to end the day in the top five driving the Game Over Toyota Supra GT4 Evo2 to be shared alongside Tony Quinn.
Qualifying for the Monochrome GT4 Australia races at Sydney Motorsport Park begins on Saturday, May 3 at 10:20am AEST to be broadcast on 7plus and internationally via the GT World YouTube channel.