In Qualifying 3, the participants mainly battled for starting positions within their classes. The session had to be shortened from 90 to 55 minutes due to delays surrounding Top Qualifying. The GT3 cars that were not represented in the individual time trials competed for starting positions from row nine onwards. The PROsport Aston Martin #37 qualified as “best of the rest.”
Quotes from the pole position press conference
The die has been cast – even if it took a little longer today: The Manthey Porsche with the #911 will start from pole position tomorrow. After one flying lap each, Kevin Estre was 1.168 seconds faster than Thomas Neubauer in the Rinaldi Ferrari, who will share the front row with him tomorrow. For one favorite, the individual time trial was over prematurely: Laurens Vanthoor crashed heavily into the track barrier in the Aremberg section on his first flying lap in the #16 Scherer PHX Porsche, forcing the race to be neutralized with a red flag. The subsequent repair of the guardrail delayed the schedule by more than 1.5 hours.
Everything is ready for the big Friday showdown: race director Walter Hornung drew lots in the morning to determine the starting order for the top qualifying session. Here is an overview of the order in which the drivers nominated by the teams will start:
Perfect start for the defending champion: the #1 Scherer-Audi also set the first exclamation mark at the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring 2025 on Thursday evening. Christopher Haase set the first fastest time of the day in 8:10.580 minutes, securing the all-new driver line-up a commanding place in Friday's top qualifying session (13:20). Haase had already been the fastest man at the Ring in the first qualifying session in the early afternoon and had even improved his time by almost four seconds in the evening. "Christopher drove the lap right at the start with the track clear. That lap was simply superb," said team-mate Luca Ludwig. The driver trio is completed by Markus Winkelhock.
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