RTR Projects and DINAMIC Motorsport shared the final pole positions of the 2025 GT2 European Series powered by Pirelli season at Barcelona in a thrilling Qualifying contest. Philippe Prette was again untouchable in the Am class, taking both pole positions.
A year on from his last GT2 Europe outing at the very same circuit, German driver Lennart Marioneck - who shares the #89 RTR Projects KTM X-BOW GT2 with Mato Homola - grabbed an emphatic first pole position, before Mauro Calamia denied the Czech squad a double glory by topping the second phase of qualifying in the #7 Maserati GT2.
In the first 20-minute session held at the Spanish venue, it was Marioneck who controlled proceedings with a rapid effort of 1:44.157s during the early stages, and it proved more than enough for the KTM man to seal his fate and secure pole position by almost a second over his nearest rival.
The Pro-Am crew’s closest challenger would actually be the fastest Am competitor, Philippe Prette. Despite missing out on what could have been a fourth outright pole position of the campaign, the newly-crowned double Am class champion earned a place on the front row of the grid ahead of NM Racing’s Alberto de Martin (#115 Mercedes-AMG GT2).
Completing an all-Mercedes-AMG second row was the #294 RTR Projects entry of Petr Lisa (sharing with Ondrej Rokos), with Roberto Pampanini taking fifth place for DINAMIC Motorsport before handing over to Calamia. Team MZR took sixth with Marius Aigner in the #119 KTM, ahead of LP Racing’s sister #8 Maserati in the hands of Jean-Denis Deletraz.
The CMR Ginetta G56 GT2 of Lawrence Tomlinson will start its maiden GT2 Europe outing from eighth on the grid, with AKF Motorsport’s Oliver Freymuth (Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo Evo 2) and LP Racing’s Otto Blank (Audi R8 LMS GT2) rounding out the top 10.
For much of Q2, RTR Projects threatened to cllinch a double pole as Homola set the early pace, but a resurgent Calamia came away with bragging rights thanks to a 1:43.533s lap to deny his Slovakian rival by a mere 0.028s in a super-tight session.
Third-placed Pierre Kaffer was only a further 0.013s back in the #88 LP Racing Audi, with Nil Montserrat putting the NM Racing crew fourth ahead of their second home event in succession.
Ginetta and CMR were left smiling when Freddie Tomlinson put the new car inside the top five on the grid, ahead of last year’s Pro-Am champion Reinhard Kofler in the Team MZR KTM.
Prette was again best of the Am runners in seventh ouright, beating his category rival Rokos to the class pole. Stéphane Ratel was ninth in the Maserati previously piloted by Deletraz, while Freymuth rounded out the top 10.
The season finale at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will feature two 60-minute races. The first of those will take place at 13:20 CEST on Saturday afternoon, the second starting from 9:10 on Sunday morning. Both races will be broadcast LIVE on the GT World YouTube channel.