Overview

• Raffaele Marciello, Kelvin van der Linde and Charles Weerts averaged 2:00.658 in the No. 32 BMW to beat the No. 888 GruppeM Mercedes-AMG by 0.518 seconds.
• Phantom Racing’s Audi qualified third to take Silver Cup pole, Bastian Buus vaulted Origine Motorsport’s Porsche to fourth, and Absolute Racing’s Porsche is provisionally fifth with Patrick Pilet’s best lap under deletion review.
• Harmony Racing’s No. 21 Ferrari secured Bronze Cup pole and is set to start inside the top five once Pilet’s penalty is applied.
• Qualifying featured a long Q2 delay after Kevin Tse’s crash and two Q3 red flags for incidents involving Takuro Shinohara and Pilet, pushing running into darkness.
• Bingo Racing’s Callaway Corvette led pre-qualifying with a 2:00.469 before late rain, while JMR’s No. 99 Corvette and K-tunes’ No. 98 Ferrari received steward dispensations after major Friday mechanical issues.