Grasser Racing Team secured the pole on Saturday morning in a chaotic qualifying session, after red-flag sessions hampered the rivals' chances to start from front.
The trio of Christian Engelhart, Mirko Bortolotti and Rolf Ineichen were quickest in qualifying for the second consecutive round of this year's Endurance Cup Championship, getting the pole after setting an average time of 1:59.690s.
The opening segment of three-part qualifying session was disrupted by 2 red-flag periods, after 2 different Audis went off the track and crashed, ending the session prematurely with mere 2 minutes to go.
This meant that many rivals, including Garage 59 Aston Martin and Black Falcon Mercedes weren't able to set any representative during the first segment, starting at the backfoot behind the cars that set times in all 3 segments.
Alongside the #63 GRT Lamborghini Huracan GT3, Attempto Racing's #55 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo will complete the front row, after a combined time by Pieter Schothorst, Steijn Schothorst and Mattia Drudi put the trio just 0.196s slower than the Lamborghini.
2 Lamborghinis made the Top 3 spots after #519 Orange 1 FFF Lamborghini driven by Phil Keen, David Perera and Giovanni Venturini were less than a tenth slower than the Audi in second place.
Reigning Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup champion Black Falcon car of Luca Stolz, Yelmer Buurman and Maro Engel will start 37th despite Stolz's quickest lap in FP2, with factory-backed ROWE Porsches and AKKA ASP Mercedes of Marciello, Meadows and Abril starting way down the order.
Oman Racing with TF Sport secured Pro-Am pole with Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood.
Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini was quickest of the Am Cup cars, as Adrian Amstutz, Leo Machitski and Miguel Ramos set pole from 21st overall.
Update: Maxime Martin will pull double duty, driving both the #62 Aston Martin and #76 Aston Martin after Marvin Kirchoeffer withdrew from the race due to illness, although Martin will only be able to score points in his #62 Aston Martin.
The race will start at 3 pm UK time.
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