Ellis, Foley Score Road America Poles

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO

Philip Ellis and Robby Foley have scored poles for the pair of Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS races at Road America.

Ellis stormed to a best lap of 2:03.976 in the No. 91 Regulator Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo in the Pro-Am entry to edge out Pro class pole-sitter Alec Udell by 0.714 seconds.

Bill Auberlen qualified third in the No. 28 ST Racing BMW M4 GT3, followed by Luca Mars in the No. 93 Racers Edge Motorsports Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 and Madison Snow in the debuting No. 99 Random Vandals Racing BMW.

The No. 19 Esses Racing Mercedes-AMG of Will Hardeman claimed pole in the Am class for Race 1, with the debuting No. 163 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 of Ozz Negri set to start Race 2 from the top spot in class.

Foley’s 2:03.762 lap time in Q2 was 0.281 seconds clear of Pro class pole-sitter Tommy Milner in the No. 63 DXDT Corvette, in second.

Elliott Skeer qualified third overall and second in Pro in the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, with Tom Sargent and Bryan Sellers completing the overall top-five for GMG Racing and DXDT, respectively.

It came before a spin in the wet grass for Sellers in the closing minutes of Q2.

A total of 15 cars are now set to take part this weekend following the withdrawal of the No. 50 Chouest Povoledo Racing Mercedes-AMG, which crashed out in opening practice on Friday.

The team had planned to press its GT America powered by AWS chassis into Fanatec GT America action but it suffered mechanical issues following Friday’s second session.

The first 90-minute race of the weekend start at 3:10 p.m. CDT with live coverage on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel and on Twitch.

RESULTS: Qualifying 1/Qualifying 2

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