Alex Brundle savaged the competition with a stunning 1min57.809sec lap to send Ligier to the top on the marque’s TUDOR Championship debut. The Briton was 0.834sec clear of his nearest opposition when it started sprinkling with rain, but the OAK Racing machine had been a clear favorite since second practice.

The Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP, driven by Ricky Taylor, was second, but the bigger news was Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates clocking third in the Riley-Ford Ecoboost, courtesy of Memo Rojas. Christian Fittipaldi was fourth for Action Express Racing, with Johannes van Overbeek sixth in ESM Racing’s HPD-ARX 03b, which runs the same engine as the polesitting Ligier.

PC class had an interrupted session when David Ostella backed his Performance Tech car in the barriers in the opening minute, but once the green flag flew again, there was no stopping Sean Rayhall of 8 Star Motorsports who was over half a second clear of CORE autosport’s Colin Braun. Bruno Junqueira was third but RSR teammate Jack Hawskworth did not set a time.

As it has been all weekend, the third Porsche 911 RSR, the new No. 910 entry, was the fastest of the Porsches in GTLM which was more than enough to earn it pole in today’s session. However, the car was stripped of its times due to a missing camera pod. Thus although Patrick Pilet was almost quarter of a second to the good over Jonathan Bomarito in the No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT, it’s the Californian who will start from pole tomorrow.

Nick Tandy and Patrick Long were third and fourth in their works Porsches, with Marc Goossens fifth in the second Viper.

GTD qualifying saw James Davison able to stretch the legs of TRG Aston Martin’s V12 Vantage, grabbing pole by 0.3sec from the Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R of Jeroen Bleekemolen. Dane Cameron was third in Turner Motorsports’ BMW Z4 with Mike Skeen fourth in a Porsche.

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