Pole position honours were shared between the Rollcentre Mosler and the Trackspeed Porsche at Rockingham this evening in official qualifying for tomorrow’s rounds of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship.

Qualifying one saw Gregor Fisken win the battle of the gentleman racers, the Scottish driver - a winner in British GT last season - hauling his Mosler around the Rockingham track in 1m 22.102s to nick the pole for Round 6 from under the nose of Trackspeed driver David Ashburn in the closing moments. Ashburn’s Porsche will line up second on the grid, ahead of the Argentine Chad Racing Ferrari of Juan Garriz, which recovered well after missing most of free practice with mechanical problems.

Second qualifying brought revenge for Trackspeed, whose Glynn Geddie pipped the MTECH Ferrari of Matt Griffin to top spot by a tenth of a second, setting a best time of 1m 20.561s, with Adam Wilcox third quickest in the Predator CCTV Ferrari.

There will be no Preci-Spark Ascari on the grid tomorrow: engine trouble sidelined the Jones brothers’ car in free practice.

In the G4 class, it was a double-top for the Piranha Motorsport Lotus 2-Eleven, Chris Bialan quickest in qualifying one and his team-mate Simon Mason comfortably quickest in session two, ahead of championship returnee Michael Mallock in the Chad-prepared KTM X-Bow.

Rounds six and seven are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at ‘The Rock’. British GT is sponsored by UK tyre manufacturer Avon Tyres and is further supported by Sunoco Racing Fuels, Anglo American Oil Company and The Independent.