Panis Barthez Take Point at Silverstone

The no23 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier will start at the head of the 41 car field with the championship leading no26 G-Drive Racing Oreca-Gibson alongside on the front row. Jean-Eric Vergne posted a 1m44.426, which looked good enough for pole until Stevens went quicker late in the session.

Row 2 will be headed by the no21 DragonSpeed Oreca, with the no29 Duqueine Engineering Oreca of Nicolas Jamin in fourth place. 

LMP3: EuroInternational Take First Pole of 2018 Season

The no12 EuroInternational Ligier will line up at the head of the 18 strong LMP3 grid for this afternoon’s 4 Hours of Silverstone. Mattia Drudi claimed pole by just 0.046 seconds with a lap of 1m55.508 ahead of the no6 360 Racing Ligier of Ross Kaiser, the British driver posting a 1m55.554 just before the chequered flag.

Row 2 of the LMP3 grid will be filled by the two Ligiers run by United Autosports. Reigning champion Sean Rayhall finished the session with a 1m55.662 lap in the no2 Nissan powered Ligier, just 0.154s behind the lead car and 0.141 seconds ahead of teammate Matt Bell in the no3 Ligier.

Championship leaders RLR MSport finished the session in 6^th place after Job Van Uitert set a 1m56.195.

LMGTE: Porsche 1-2-3

The LMGTE pole was claimed by the no77 Proton Competition Porsche of Dennis Olsen, the Norwegian driver posting a 1m58.704 in a tense session that saw the top three cars split by just 0.14 seconds.

A last minute fast lap by the no55 Spirit of Race Ferrari of Matt Griffin saw the Irish driver post a pole sitting time, but a track limits infringement at T9 saw the lap deleted.

At the chequered flag it was a Proton Competition 1-2, with the no88 Porsche of Matteo Cairoli just six hundredths of a second behind his teammate Olsen, with Ben Barker in the no86 Gulf Racing UK Porsche third fastest.

The 4 Hours of Silverstone will take place today, Saturday 18 August, with the race due to start at 14h30 (local time). 

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