Quick takeaways

Porsche, whether GTP (Penske) or GTD (Rexy) scrubbing in tires in qualifying. GTD wouldn’t have been able to do that last year. Does that mean they will definitely change tires in the race?

Wickens was a little off his pace in practice. For others in GTD practice pace was a good indicator of lap time for qualifying. Losing the fastest didn’t help.

In GTP, the BMW gets down to its quick times fastest than the others. Really good for qualifying. It has race pace, but it looks like Penske have been really concentrating on that. They took longer to warm up and started their qualifying run later after scrubbing in the other set.

We were lucky there wasn’t a red before the end. Jaminet had a fun qualifying. Really pushing with a few minutes left. Lucky not to tag the tire wall. Yellowy had a moment that could have given us a red too.

Third pole for BMW in a row.