Bathurst 12-Hour Qualifying 2016 – Van Gisbergen And McLaren Snare Pole
Kiwi driver Shane Van Gisbergen has topped the time sheets for tomorrow’s Bathurst 12-Hour, and is the Allan Simonsen Pole Award-winner for 2016. With a blistering 2m01.286s lap of the Mount Panorama circuit, Van Gisbergen and his team&rsquo
Kiwi driver Shane Van Gisbergen has topped the time sheets for tomorrow’s Bathurst 12-Hour, and is the Allan Simonsen Pole Award-winner for 2016.
With a blistering 2m01.286s lap of the Mount Panorama circuit, Van Gisbergen and his team’s #59 McLaren 650S GT3 proved that the GT3 class is knocking on the door of a sub-two minute lap at 'The Mountain'.
Van Gisbergen’s time is the first sub-2m02s qualifying lap time at Mount Panorama, and positions two and three on the grid were also decided by sub-2m02s laps.
"The car has been amazing all weekend - we've mainly been doing race set-ups on high fuel so it's been pretty good,” Van Gisbergen said.
“With qualifying we just put it all on the table and did what we could. It was pretty awesome to see that [lap time] come up on the dash, I was pretty pumped about that. We're not really excelling over the top but the car is good in every sector."
Van Gisbergen was more than a second faster than last year’s Allan Simonsen Pole award winner, Belgian Laurens Vanthoor, who managed a time of 2m02:5521s in an Audi R8 LMS Ultra for Phoenix Racing.
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