Antonio Giovinazzi secured pole position for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, outpacing Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi in a session that saw Brendon Hartley crash on his out lap.

The Italian driver set a best lap of 2:00.777 aboard the No. 51 Ferrari 499P to secure the Italian marque’s second pole position of the season.
He cleared the No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Kamui Kobayashi by 0.039 seconds, with Miguel Molina third overall and 0.059 seconds down.
Giovinazzi recovered from a spin at La Source earlier in the session to claim pole. It came not long after a session-halting incident triggered by the No. 8 Toyota of Brendon Hartley.

Hartley lost control of his car at Raidillon on his out lap and hit the barriers nose first, bringing out the red flag. He took no further part in the session.
Earl Bamber completed the second row aboard the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R, 0.266 seconds removed from pole.
Teammate Sebastien Bourdais completed the top five in the No. 3 Cadillac, ahead of the No. 6 Porsche 963 of Kevin Estre and the Hertz Team JOTA Porsche in the hands of Will Stevens.

Olivier Pla qualified eighth for Glickenhaus, with Peugeot’s Jean-Eric Vergne and Porsche Penske Motorsport driver Fred Makowiecki completing the top five.
Gustavo Menezes and Tom Dillmann were eleventh and twelfth, respectively.

Blomqvist & Al Harthy on Pole in LMP2, GTE-Am

United Autosports will start Saturday’s six-hour race from pole position, thanks to a fast lap from Tom Blomqvist.
Blomqvist reeled off a best lap of 2:05.979 aboard the No. 23 Oreca 07 Gibson, besting the No. 41 Team WRT Oreca of Louis Deletraz by 0.339 seconds.
Daniil Kvyat qualified third for Prema, ahead of WRT’s Frijns and the No. 28 JOTA car in the hands of Pietro Fittipaldi.

Bent Viscaal was sixth, with the top eight completed by United driver Filipe Albuquerque and the No. 34 Inter Europol Competition Oreca driven by Fabio Scherer.
Ahmad Al Harthy took his maiden pole position in WEC in dominant fashion to lead GTE-Am qualifying.
The Omani driver steered the No. 25 ORT by TF Aston Martin Vantage GTE to a best lap of 2:17.216.

He remained ahead of the No. 85 Iron Dames Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Sarah Bovy by a margin of 1.934 seconds.
Al Harthy already sat at the top of the times with an early flyer when the session was red-flagged, triggered by a big incident for PJ Hyett at Raidillon.
Hyett lost control of the No. 56 Project 1 – AO Porsche and hit the barrier hard, but was able to walk away under his own power.

When the session resumed, Al Harthy was able to improve on his early best lap twice en route to pole.
Ryan Hardwick took third aboard the No. 88 Proton Competition Porsche, ahead of Corvette Racing’s Ben Keating.

Luis Perez Companc completed the top five in the No. 83 Richard Mille AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.