Fantastic start for BWT Lechner Racing and Dylan Pereira into the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season 2022: At the tradititional Autodromo Dino e Enzo Ferrari, the 24-year old from Luxembourgh claimed his fourth Supercup pole position with a time of 1:42,741, more than two tenths ahead of defending champion Larry ten Voorde. Bastian Buus in P3 and Harry King in P7 completed the great result of the Austrian squad.
Pereira was of course ever so happy with his great achievement: “Already in the free practice in the morning I felt that the car was really good, that our thorough preparation and good tests obviously had paid off. So I was quite confident going into qualy. In the first outing, I did not go to the absolute limit yet, just wanted to put in a good, safe lap, which I managed with P3 at the time“, he stated. „Then with the second set of tyres I really went for it, got the peak of the tyres completely right and did a very good lap. It was a perfect job of the whole team, through the winter until now – a great start into the season, I hope it will continue like this!“
Just behind Pereira another of the pink BWT Lechner Racing cars will line up on the grid on Sunday: 18-year old Bastian Buus from Denmark was the sensation of the day, coming third in his first Supercup qualy ever and was nearly over the moon: “Really, really, really happy with the qualifying, such a strong performance of the team, the car is in really good shape, good preparation, it felt really nice, best rookie, pace is strong. So absolutely satisfied, I really want to thank the whole team for the great effort.”
Harry King finished in P7 but also confirmed the huge potential of the BWT Lechner Racing car: “The performance of the car was great, I got caught in some traffic, but I am convinced there is much more to come in the race.”