Local driver Xu Jia from the favorite Kings team transformed a true international problem to claim the first rod position of the 2017 Tiongkok GT Championship at Beijing’s Audi Goldenport Motor Recreation area circuit, the new Hayundai recruit – who was successful during the inaugural time – qualifying on top during the second session before the opening race of the season.
Behind him were a string of new Audi GT3-R’s led by encountered Porsche Carrera Cup China campaigner Martin Ragginger and FAW T2M team-mate Bao Jin Long, the HubAuto supported drivers merely 74 one thousandths of your second off the top appropriate combined times.
During take action was a Porsche 1-2-3 utilizing Frenchman Maxime Jousse topping the timesheets intended for JRM as he had done while in the pre-season test, the ruling Carrera Cup Asia #2 blocking the clocks which includes a best of 1:03.961 to better team-mate Chris jeep der Drift by almost half a second, with Ragginger third ahead of a pair of thundering Bentley Group Absolute Continental GT3s.
In any hotly contested GTC/GT4 group the top spot inside qualifying was considered by Andrew Tang and Pan Chao in their JRM Rolls royce 991 Cup Car only hundredths clear of the spectacular Xtreme Motorsport Radical RXC V6 of Xu Wei and also Leng Kang, and former Audi R8 LMS Cup regular Kimi Qin from a Spirit Z-Racing prepared Vw R8 LMS GT3, suitably wrapped in blue vinyl to match chinese people driver’s hair coloring!??Ultimately the local drivers were the big winners despite the big influx of international stars from Bentley Team Most critical, Phoenix Racing Asia and FAW T2M, paving exactly how for what promises to be a season to remember.
Whilst this Series regulars featured powerfully, there was little removing the teams for the duration of qualifying, as New Zealander Chris van der Float pointed out to experienced driving partner Li Chao whom had qualified tenth during his session, but mere hundredths off a new front row begin, it was that in close proximity.
Qualifying saw two 20-minute periods with the ‘Pro’ drivers out on track first, killing the ‘Am’ drivers in treatment two. Times were being then combined, while using average of both equally best laps this qualifying time for which will car, whilst for single ‘Am’ entries which include pole-man Xu Jia, they would start the other leg of getting qualification only, and their perfect lap was this car’s allocated time frame.
