Doha: Pavel Nedobity took the pole position of the fourth round of Qatar Challenge with a time of 2:27.390 at the qualifying session.
At the Losail track yesterday, the Lotus driver, dominated all the sessions of the day and hopes to get a good result today and take the first win of the season.
The leader of the championship Mark Holroyd, made the second best lap time with a gap of 1.072.
Peter De Vido claimed third while Abdullah Al Kharaan ended in fourth position.
Qatar Challenge race startstoday at 11:55am.
Meanwhile, at the first race of the third round of Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, the winner was the leader of the championship, Clemens Schmid from Al Nabooda Racing Team.
Schmid who started in the first position of the grid, lead the race until the end and gave no chance to Saeed Al Mehairi who finished in second place with a gap of 6.157 behind Schmid. Zaid Ashkanani from BuZaid GT ended in third position.
In the Radical Middle East Cup practices yesterday, in the free practice 1, the Qatari driver Amro Al Hamad and Rob Wheldon of Alpha Shell Qatar Racing made the best time, 1:59.470 and Ludo Loffreda and Romain Lutter from Lucco Racing team were the fastest car in the Free practice 2 with a time 1:59.948.
The first race for Radical today will be at 13:45 and second race at 16:20.
To pay respect to the passing of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, all the podium ceremonies after the races have been cancelled.
Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah, QMMF President and LIC General Manager expressed his happiness to host three championships at the same weekend.
“It is a pleasure to host for the third time in a row a round of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East and for second year the Radical Middle East,” he said.
Walter Lechner , Promoter and Head of Lechner Racing, thanked to Al Attiyah for the continuous support to Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East.
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