The SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm driver won qualifying for Sunday’s ADAC GT4 Germany at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, narrowly beating the two Aston Martins.
Qualifying for the weekend’s second ADAC GT4 Germany race was a really close affair, with the tension continuing to build right up until the end of the session. In the end, it was Jay Mo Härtling (22/Sprockhövel) from SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm who came out on top with a time of 1:29.236 minutes in his Mercedes-AMG GT4. After taking victory in the Saturday race on his debut in the series, this is now Härtling’s first pole position in ADAC GT4 Germany.
“It is obviously an incredibly nice feeling, and a mega performance from the team. The car had been prepared superbly,” beamed Härtling, who shares the cockpit with Enrico Förderer (18/Leuterod). “I had a bit of traffic on my fastest lap, otherwise it could perhaps have been a little faster.”
Marek Böckmann (28/Lautersheim) narrowly missed out on pole by just 0.011 seconds in an Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4. The Prosport Racing driver, who shares the car with Anton Paul Abée (27/Hamburg), will thus start race two from the front row of the grid. Third place went to the second Prosport Aston Martin, that of Hugo Sasse (21/Aschersleben) and Roman Fellner-Feldegg (22/Landsberg am Lech). Fellner-Feldegg, who was at the wheel for qualifying, was just 0.018 seconds slower than Härtling.
In fourth place, 0.121 seconds off the top time, was the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 of Oskar Lind Kristensen (19/DNK) and Lachlan Robinson (21/AUS, both AVIA W&S Motorsport). Fellow Porsche drivers Raphael Rennhofer (18/AUT) and Emil Heyerdahl (22/NOR, both Wimmer Werk Motorsport) completed the top five.
Sunday’s ADAC GT4 Germany race starts at 15:10 and will be broadcast live on free-to-air TV by Sport1. “We want to use our pace at the start and then manage the race through to the finish,” said pole-sitter Härtling, looking ahead to race two.
