Joerg Hardt pole-sitter – top four within nine-hundredths of a second
Stuttgart. With a grid of 40 competitors, the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland roars into its eighteenth season on the Hockenheim. At the first qualifying session of the year, Joerg Hardt (Germany) posted pole position with a lap time of 1:43.055 minutes. Hardt, who finished the 2006 season third overall, turned his pole-setting time a mere three-hundredths of a second ahead of Richard Westbrook (Great Britain) in second. Westbrook tackles a full Carrera Cup Deutschland season for the first time this year after winning the international Porsche Mobil1 Supercup in 2006.Porsche virtuosos also occupy the second row of the grid for the 18-lap race on Sunday. Chris Mamerow (Germany) contests his fourth season in Europe's fastest one-make race series. The car salesman was four-hundredths of a second shy of Hardt, but relegated his compatriot Uwe Alzen to fifth position. Alzen's qualifying time was nine-hundredths of a second in arrears of the pole-sitter.
Rookie René Rast from Germany yielded a surprising result with fifth at his first ever qualifying session in the Porsche Carrera Cup. The 20-year-old student advanced to the cockpit of a 400 hp Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car after claiming overall victory in the 2005 VW Polo Cup and vice-championship honours in the 2006 Seat Leon Supercopa
Trailing the three specialists Nicolas Armindo (France), Jan Seyffarth (Germany) and Christian Menzel (Germany) in positions five to eight, another new-comer Michel Frey (Switzerland) secured place nine in the top ten. After spending four years in the Swiss Formula 3 (1999 to 2003) he joined Porsche Clubsport in 2004 and now teams up with Richard Westbrook for 2007. Adam Lacko (Czech Republic) rounds off the top ten in a Porsche sportscar run by the 2006 champion team, Farnbacher PZ Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen.
Joerg Hardt (pole-sitter): “We waited until half-way through the qualifying before heading out. Our plan was to use only one of the two sets tyres so that we had one up our sleeves for tomorrow. I set off, turned two laps – then everything came together perfectly in the third. With 40 cars on the track overtaking tomorrow will be a real headache.”
Richard Westbrook (second in qualifying): “Yesterday's second free practice was disastrous. But we worked through the night to change the suspension set-up and it seems to have worked. To cut a long story short, I'm a happy man.”
Chris Mamerow (third in qualifying): “Trying to qualify amongst 40 cars is a bit like a lottery. With so much traffic you have to watch very carefully who's in front of you or when to find a gap to turn a quick lap. Then you somehow have to decide and hope that you or someone else doesn't mess things up. Well, it worked. I'm good at starts and I have high hopes for tomorrow.”
Please note: The complete qualifying result is attached to this text on the Porsche Press Database.
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Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, Round 1 Hockenheimring, Qualifying:
Joerg Hardt pole-sitter – top four within nine-hundredths of a second