•    Second successive Michelin 24H SERIES pole position for GetSpeed Team PCX 
•    Impressive showing from Benjamin Paque, Mikaël Grenier and Jordan Boisson
•    Saintéloc Junior’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II completes front row in Germany
•    Mühlner takes 992 class pole by just 0.014s from 992-AM pole qualifiers HRT
•    Not Only Motorsport, Hofor Racing by Bonk, KEO Racing take other class poles

 GETSPEED TEAM PCX MERCEDES-AMG HOLT SICH DIE POLE-POSITION AM NÜRBURGRING

Nürburgring, Germany (3 July 2026):
GetSpeed Team PCX Racing, championship leaders of the Michelin 24H SERIES European Series, scorched to a brilliant pole position on home ground this afternoon for the first ever Michelin 12H NÜRBURGRING – the penultimate round of the 2026 season.

Combining superbly in the No.28 Mecedes-AMG GT3 EVO, Jordan Boisson, Mikaël Grenier and Benjamin Paque ultimately claimed GT3 and GT3 PRO-AM poles at the Nürburgring GP Circuit, Paque overcoming a trip through the gravel in Q3 to punch in a searing team best of 1m52.729 seconds.

“It was in sector two where I did quite a small mistake, I went into the gravel and came out of the gravel, switched my head off – completely off – to calm down really and said I have one more lap to push”, reflected Paque, “My engineer also told me to calm down and all was good, thanks to him as it helped me quite a lot, and then I put my head down and did a perfect job – I’m super happy.”

Saintéloc Junior Team’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II will line-up alongside on the front row for the start of the opening six hours of the Michelin 12H NÜRBURGRING tomorrow, with Stephane Tribaudini, Elia Erhart and Pierre Kaffer taking qualifying duty. The gap to the Mercedes was half a second.

Proton Competition’s Constantin Dressler, Manuel Lauck and Joel Sturm qualified their Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) EVO third, 0.2 seconds faster on aggregate than the Porsche of impressive championship debutants Up2Race and its line-up of Fabio Grosse, Oleksiy Kikireshko and Tim Heinemann.

GetSpeed’s Team JR286 badged Mercedes-AMG claimed GT3 AM class pole, Steve Jans, Tanner Harvey and Patrick Liddy tasked with qualifying the No.286 car. In the 992 class, exclusively for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992 I) cars, points leaders Mühlner Motorsport shaded an impossibly close battle with 992-AM class runners HRT Performance by a mere 0.014 seconds on average times.

Not Only Motorsport’s Ligier JS2 R of Filippo Tornaghi, Gino Rocchio and Nathan Huet eased to the TCE-TCX pole position, while Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport’s BMW M4 GT4 EVO (G82) starts from GT4 pole and the Ligier JS2 RS of series newcomers KEO Racing has GTX class pole position.

Session one qualifying for the GT3 runners was very closely matched throughout the 15 minutes, only in the final seconds did Tribaudini take the Saintéloc Audi onto provisional pole with his last lap of 1m54.364s – the team choosing to enter the session fairly late.

Boisson was little more than a tenth shy in the GetSpeed Team PCX Mercedes, with the squad’s Team JR286 car third a mere six hundredths away in the hands of Jans. Dressler in the Proton Competition Porsche shaded the Viper Niza Racing Mercedes of Dominic Ang by just 0.002s.

In session two, Grosse initially took Up2Race onto provisional pole with an excellent first effort of 1m54.115s in the No.88 Porsche. It didn’t take long for Grenier to take control though in the No.28 Team PCX Mercedes, reeling off a series of superb laps and ending with a 1m52.778s best to give the squad a healthy half second cushion on aggregate.

Second on average times at the end of Q2 was the Saintéloc Audi, piloted by Erhart, who produced a lap of 1m53.922s. Proton’s Porsche was third in the hands of Lauck, while Yannick Redant pushed Up2Race back to fifth on average after lapping in 1m54.114s in the Ajith RedAnt Racing Mercedes.

Heading into Q3 it looked like GetSpeed’s pole to lose and Paque rose to the challenge, but it wasn’t all plain sailing due to an unfortunate mid-session trip through the gravel as the car got loose at the Schumacher S. 

Responding imperiously with a time of 1m52.729s, Paque shaded his Pro team-mate Grenier’s best time to seal GT3 pole. Kaffer’s 1m53.413s ensured the front row start for Saintéloc, while Sturm’s 1m53.310s put Proton at the head of the Porsche 911 battle – Heinemann having lapped slightly quicker in Q3 with a time of 1m53.197s for Up2Race. 

Fabian Danz made the early running for Red Camel-Jordans.nl in the first of the three qualifying sessions for the 992 cars, but halfway through the 15-minute period Joshua Bednarski moved to the top of the times in the No.921 Mühlner Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992 I). Delivering a lap of 1m58.074 seconds, the category points leaders set out their clear intentions from the get-go.

Nobody else was able to match Bednarski in Q1, although Igor Sorokin pushed Danz back to third by a mere half a tenth with a strong time of 1m58.879 seconds in the No.928 HRT Performance car. Fourth quickest in 992 in session one was Anthony Vince in the No.888 Seblajoux Racing entry.

James Kellett wasted absolutely no time in Q2, punching in a lap of 1m56.470s with his opening effort to take the HRT Porsche onto provisional pole. Next time around he improved by a couple of tenths, but at the end of the lap he had caught the Mühlner car which prevented a third flyer. 

Conrad Tox Leveau ended the session with a best of 1m57.582s, keeping Mühlner in the top two on aggregate times, while Luc Breukers ensured the Red Camel Porsche remained third overall with an almost identical time to Leveau. Carlos Rivas kept the No.888 Seblajoux car fourth.

Martin Rump strapped in to the No.921 car for the third and final session and reeled off a series of laps in the very low 1m57s bracket to seal pole for Mühlner – albeit by a miniscule 0.014s from the HRT Porsche driven superbly by Steven Gambrell in Q3. Improving consistently throughout, Gambrell ended up with a best of 1m57.647s to only just miss the outright 992 pole but seal 992-AM pole.

Third on the overall 992 grid was claimed for Red Camel by Rik Breukers with a very strong lap of 1m56.755s, while Sebastien Lajoux kept his team’s No.888 car fourth. Philip Hamprecht delivered an impressive 1m56.424s in Q3 to grab fourth on the grid for RPM Racing.

During the early going in TCE-TCX Cesar Fonseca topped the times in as Best Racing’s Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS (982) with a lap of 2m14.267s. The Ligier JS2 R steadily built-up speed in Q1 with Tornaghi at the wheel, eventually producing the fastest time of 2m11.821s.

Through sessions two and three the Ligier dominated, ultimately wrapping-up pole position by over three seconds. Second on the TCE-TCX grid will be the asBest Porsche which is shared by Fonseca, Silas Passos and Alexandre Dante. 

Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport has pole position in the GT4 class with an aggregate time of 2m05.148s from the BMW M4 GT4 EVO (G82) shared by Martin Kroll, Michael Bonk, Claudia Hürtgen and Elia Weiss. Making its Michelin 24H SERIES bow in the GTX class, the Ligier JS2 RS of debuting squad KEO Racing impressed with its pace in the hands of duo Adrian Kunzle and Kevin Madsen.

Michelin 12H NÜRBURGRING gets underway tomorrow, Saturday, 4 July, with the first six hours of action beginning at 12.00 local time. Following an overnight break, the concluding six hours will begin at 12.00 local on Sunday, 5 July. Watch everything live and uninterrupted on YouTube at the Creventic Motorsports TV channel. Links for live timing and the streaming at www.24hseries.com