The #98 ROWE Racing BMW will start this afternoon's GT World Challenge race at the Nürburgring from pole after the #32 Team WRT BMW recieved a five-place grid penalty. This gives Raffaele Marciello his sixth Endurance Cup pole, while Augusto Farfus and Jesse Krohn are first-time pole-winners.
The stewards agreed that the #32 – driven at the time by Charles Weerts – was at fault in the Q2 incident that sent Jules Gounon's #17 GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG into the barriers.
As such the #98 BMW starts ahead of the #51 AF Corse – Francorchamps Motors Ferrari, the #58 Garage 59 McLaren, the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin and the #22 Schumacher CLRT Porsche. Team WRT occupies sixth, directly ahead of its closest title rivals: the #48 Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter and the #96 Rutronik Racing Porsche.
This afternoon's three-hour race will get underway at 15:00 CEST and airs live on the GT World YouTube channel.