Minassian Takes First Masters Endurance Legends Pole from Short

Twenty-one cars came out for qualifying at the inaugural Masters Endurance Legends race, with series advisor Nicolas Minassian scorching round Spa to take pole in his Peugeot 908X. Second was Martin Short in the Rollcentre Dallara SP1, a fine performance in a car that had not taken to the track for 11-years and was having paddle-shift issues.

Lead GT car was the Ferrari 550 of Steve Zacchia in eighth. The 40-minute race is at 14.50 local time this afternoon.

Qualifying:

1 (18) G3P1 Nicolas Minassian (Peugeot 908X) 2m27.955s (170.419kmh)

2 (8) G2P1 Martin Short (Dallara SP1) 2m31.514s

3 (27) G3P2 Michel Frey (Oreca O3) 2m32.148s

4 (6) G3P1 Matthieu Lahaye (Pescarolo LMP1) 2m34.255s

5 (48) G3P2 Sean Doyle (Oreca O3) 2m34.351s

6 (008) G3P1 Cristophe D’Ansembourg (Lola Aston Martin DBR1-2) 2m38.565s

7 (40) G3P2 Jonathan Kennard (Oreca LMP2) 2m40.722s

8 (86) G2GT1 Steve Zachhia (Ferrari 550 GT1) 2m43.380s

9 (17) G3P2 Mike Furness/Robin Ward (Courage LC75) 2m 43.380s

10 (2) G2P1 Travis Engen (Audi R8 LMP1) 2m2m48.894s