However, it was an inauspicious start for the #46 crew after Nico Muller - who joins Rossi and Freder⛦ic Vervisch once more as its third driver for Endurance events - suffered a crash that prompted a red flag period๊ and limited track time.

With free practice preceding two qualifying sessions later today - pre-qualifying in the afternoon and group qualifying held at dusk - Rossi, Vervisch and Muller were just a second off the ultimate pace prior to Muller’s off witﷺh a 2min 18.675s, despite being classified at the lower end of the top twenty.

There was better news𒀰 for their Team WRT stablemates, however, as Dries Vanthoor f▨lew the Belgian flag with the quickest time of the session, the home hope stopping the clock at 2m 17.559s

Four different manufacturers🙈 filled the top four positions with the Herberth Porsche just 0.017s off 🦩the to♍p in second place, with the Winward Mercedes and Rowe BMW slotting into third and fourth.

The centrepiece of the 2022 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe season, Rossi🌳 will make his 𝄹round-the-clock race debut this weekend🍷 as he looks to build ꦜon a solid start to his full-time four-wheel racing career in the GT World Challenge Europe.

Unlike 🦩other Endurance races on the schedule, the Spa 24 Hours awards points for positions held at the six and twelve-hour mark, before full points are awarded again at the chequered flag.

Rossi comes into the Spa 24 Hours on the back of a 168꧑澳洲🍨幸运5官方开奖结果历史:season’s best fifth place finish at Paul Ricard, liಞfting the VR46 trio up to eighth in the overall standings.