Rivals close as Mustang sweeps pole at GT Festival

Rivals close as Mustang sweeps pole at GT Festival

George Miedecke and Rylan Gray have secured pole for both races at Round 4 of Monochrome GT4 Australia at the GT Festival, Phillip Island.

Miedecke set a 1m 34.685s lap time to secure pole in the opening 10-minute qualifying session as the top six were less than a second off the pace.

Ryder Quinn continued his hot form in the Black Diamond Building and Construction BMW M4 GT4 G82 to score second just 0.222s off Miedecke’s time.

BMW filled out third as well, with Tim Leahey in the Central West Prestige M4 GT4 G82 0.421s off the pole time.

Method Motorsport’s Marcos Flack was fourth in the lead McLaren Artura GT4 from stablemate and second in Pro-Am Lachlan Mineeff driving the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 MR CS.

Love Racing by Volante Rosso Motorsport Sam Brabham led Silver Cup rival Jake Camilleri in the Gomersall Racing Mercedes-AMG and the Team Nineteen Ginetta G56 GT4 of Oscar Targett.

Nash Morris followed in the Nemo Racing McLaren 570s GT4 from the lead Am Class driver in debutant Anthony Levitt in the second Method Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4.

Just outside the top 10 was John Bowe in the first of Randall Racing BMWs, teammate Jamie Augustine, Tom McLennan behind the wheel of TekworkX Motorsport Porsche, the Team Nineteen Mercedes-AMG of Mark Griffith, Steve Jukes in the Verve Motorsport Audi R8 GT4 LMS and Bailey Love completed the field in the Love Racing by Volante Rosso Motorsport entry.

In the second 10-minute qualifying session, Gray only just bettered Miedecke’s time to a 1m 34.671s as Cody Burcher in Leahey’s BMW was 0.347s off pole.

Tom Hayman for Method Motorsport was third from Antonio Astuti for Love Racing by Volante Rosso Motorsport, Targett, Camilleri and reigning series winner Shane Smollen, who led Pro-Am in his Porsche.

Levitt again led Am Cup from TekworkX Motorsport’s Zoe Woods, Jacob Lawrence for Randall Racing, Griffith, Paul Morris and Jukes.

Steve Jakic was third in Pro-Am from Rob Love and Peter Lawrence.

Race 1 of Round 4 for the Monochrome GT4 Australia Series begins the Kayo/Foxtel live coverage at 2:15pm AEST, with GTWorld YouTube Channel also broadcasting the action.