The Racing Experience driver dominates qualifying for Saturday’s Prototype Cup Germany race at the Nürburgring. Three Duqueine and two Ligier in the top five.
Markus Pommer (32/Untereisesheim) continues to dominate proceedings at the Prototype Cup Germany weekend at the Nürburgring. After setting the fastest times in both of Friday’s free practice sessions, he also came out on top of the 15-strong field in qualifying for race one. This is the second pole position of the 2023 season for the Racing Experience, who last started from the front of the grid in Assen.
“Qualifying has been really good since Assen – and the whole race weekend has started well here at the Nürburgring,” said Pommer after setting the fastest time of 2:06.010 minutes. As predicted, Saturday morning’s qualifying session took place in damp conditions and with the cars on wet tyres. “We had a test here in pouring rain a while ago. Today was not as wet as it was back then, so the track was quite easy to drive on,” said Pommer, who shares the cockpit with Gary Hauser (31/LUX).
Second place, 2.146 seconds back, went to fellow Duqueine driver Jacob Erlbacher (23/Böblingen, Gebhardt Motorsport), who starts alone this weekend. Pole-sitter Pommer had an explanation for the unusually large difference in times: “I was first onto the track and had good visibility without any spray. That is a huge advantage in the rain. Plus, I completed my fastest lap without any traffic at all.”
Klaus Abbelen (63/Barweiler) and Felipe Laser (34/Leipzig, both Frikadelli Racing) were third in their Ligier JS P320, ending the session 2.294 seconds behind Pommer. The two Frikadelli drivers are making a guest start at the Nürburgring in the Prototype Cup Germany, which is organised by the ADAC and Creventic.
In fourth place, 2.385 seconds back, were the second-placed pairing in the championship, Oscar Tunjo (27/COL) and Julien Apothéloz (22/CHE, both Van Ommen Racing by DataLab), in another Duqueine. Rounding out the top five was the Ligier of Jan Marschalkowski (20/Inning am Ammersee) and Guilherme de Oliveira (18/PRT, both MRS GT-Racing).
Saturday’s race in the Prototype Cup Germany starts at 14:25 and will be streamed live and free of charge at youtube.com/adacmotorsports.
