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Care Racing
supported Ferrari 550 Maranellos filled the first four
places in the GT1 category at Monza for round two of the
LMES, after today's 20-minute qualifying session.
Fabrizio Gollin of BMS Scuderia Italia, running with Pirelli
tyres, set the fastest time of the ten GT1 runners. In a
close and exciting qualifying battle between the Ferrari
550s, his best time of 1:46.175 was four tenths of a second
faster than that of Christophe Bouchut in the Michelin shod
Convers Team/Cirtek car.
Tomas Enge, driving the Czech MenX team car and usually a
'pole' specialist, was disappointed to be the third quickest
in the session, a feeling echoed by Christian Pescatori in
the second BMS entry.
Fabrizio Gollin: "It's good! Pirelli did a really good job
today and they've made a lot of effort to get here. With the
Pirelli tyres we now have a good balance on the car, similar
to how it felt in the last few years, and this is important
I know I can win on a car that feels like this. I had a
fast, clean lap - not perfect, but very good. It was very
important not to make a mistake as we have to start the race
on these same tyres. We had one shot today and it worked."
Christophe Bouchut: "I'm not disappointed as I think we have
a good chance for the race. I preferred to work for the race
and we tried a harder compound tyre which was maybe a bit of
a mistake.
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In a close and exciting qualifying battle between
the Ferrari 550s, Gollin's (above, with team mate
Matteo Cressoni) best time of 1:46.175 was four
tenths of a second faster than that of
Christophe Bouchut in the
Michelin shod Convers car |
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Fabrizio Gollin of BMS Scuderia Italia, running with
Pirelli tyres, set the fastest time of the ten GT1
entrants at Monza |
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"This Championship is very important and I will always try
to win. I expect the weather to be dry tomorrow and the
tyres we have on the car will be the right choice if this is
the case."
Tomas Enge: "I have no excuses, we should have done better
in qualifying. I am looking forward to the race tomorrow as
I think our driver line up is more level than our
competitors. It's going to be a tough race but if we finish
we should be in a good position."
LMES GT1 qualifying result from Monza: 1st 52 Gollin
/ Coimbra / Cressoni Ferrari 550 Maranello 1:46.175; 2nd 61
Bouchut / Fomenko / Vasiliev Ferrari 550 Maranello 1:46.587;
3rd 67 Enge / Pergl / Janis Ferrari 550 Maranello 1:47.142;
4th 51 Pescatori / Bartyan / Seiler Ferrari 550 Maranello
1:47.744; 5th 64 Kox /Norman Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT
1:48.226; 6th 63 Apicella / Yamanishi / Wada Lamborghini
Murcielago R-GT 1:49.977; 7th 53 Kaufmann / Tiemann Porsche
996 1:50.289; 8th 56 Perrret / Ajlani / Leuenberger Chrysler
Viper 1:50.361; 9th 57 Papolla / Sommereau / Iannetta
Chrysler Viper 1:51.773; 10th 68 Kutemann / Gosse /
Hugenholtz Ferrari 575 GTC Evo 2005 1:53.396
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