Road Atlanta: Ferrari qualifying report

Ferrari monopolises qualifying

Maranello, 2 October 2010 -- The F430 of Jaime Melo, Giancarlo Fisichella and Mika Salo took pole for the thirteenth edition of the Petit Le Mans, the famous 1000 mile race held at the Road Atlanta circuit, in Braselton, Giorgia. Ferrari took a clean sweep of the top four places on the grid in the GT2 class in yesterday's qualifying at the American track: behind the F430 which its Brazilian driver took to pole in 1.19.889, came the other Risi Competizione Ferrari, in the hands of Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander (1.20.070) while third and fourth places went to the Extreme Speed Motorsports cars of Guy Cosmo, Ed Brown, Joao Barbosa (1.20.165) and Johannes Van Overbeek, Dominik Farnbacher, Scott Sharp (1.20.185.)

The race gets underway at 11.20 local time, covering a distance of 394 laps, or around 1600 kilometres, with a maximum time limit of ten hours.

-source: ferrari