Thomas Biagi takes Brno pole in nail-biting session

Thomas Biagi took pole position for race one at Brno. The Italian took his Mercedes C63 AMG to the top of the list in the closing stages of the 30-minute session, as his former team-mate Giovanni Berton came close to get to celebrate his first pole position in the series with BMW Team Dinamic. Vitantonio Liuzzi claimed third on the grid, 0.098 seconds from pole.

Gianni Morbidelli held the top time at the beginning of the session, the Italian was however demoted by touring car legend Fabrizio Giovanardi, who took his Porsche Panamera S into the lead later in the session with a little more than ten minutes left of the session.

The two-time BTCC champion, who emerged fastest in the second Free Practice session, held the lead until Giovanni Berton was able to put his BMW M3 E92 on provisional pole. Thomas Biagi took it away from the young BMW driver just a handful of seconds before the session was over and put Mercedes on pole again after Vitantonio Liuzzi started on pole in Monza. The former Red Bull driver finished the session in third, just ahead of Giovanardi.

The session was close, with the first five cars covered by 18 hundredths and five different car models in the first six places, as Luigi Ferrara put his Mercedes C63 AMG Coupè to sixth right behind Morbidelli.

Edoardo Piscopo had a good debut in the series, placing his BMW in eighth behind Max Mugelli’s twin car. Christian Klien’s BMW and Francesco Sini’s Chevrolet Camaro rounded off the top ten.

Next up for the Superstars Series is Race One at 12.00 CET.