Qualifying for King of the Hill has wrapped up, with each competitor’s best time over the five sessions completed deciding the top three competitors in each class that make it through to the official Class Finals, as well as the King of the Hill Top 10 Shootouts.
With Pieter Zeelie not going out in Q6 after his exceptional time in the previous session, he holds a relatively comfortable in the overall times, with a half-second margin in the Toyota MR2 Super GT over Reghard Roets who posted his best run to date of 38.032 seconds in the Nissan R35 GT-R known as Armageddon. Franco Scribante continues to struggle for pace in his GT-R (The Sherriff) and hasn’t gone faster than his Q3 time of 39.659 seconds from Saturday.
Aldo Scribante has made it into the class B5 finals in the Audi S4 (41.165 seconds), ousting brother Silvio by just under 0.4 seconds (Audi RS3) who were fourth and fifth respectively in the Modified Saloon Car category qualifying.
Wade van Zummeren hit 247 km/h on the uphill main straight in his Nissan R34 GT-R in the final session, but his car is suffering an erratic battery power issue, with his Q1 time of 41.811 seconds still holding from yesterday.
Johan Kristoffersson’s fastest run yet of 39.288 seconds in Q6 was disqualified after he clipped a corner marker, so his time of 39.481 seconds remains from Q5.
Byron Mitchell remains the leading qualifier in the single-seater category from Q3 (40.204 seconds), ahead of Rick Morris (46.406 seconds in Q5) and Klayden Cole Ensor-Smith who went quicker in Q6 on 47.556 seconds.
The status quo remains in the standard road car and supercar category, with the times set by Clint Weston and Cristiano Verolini in Q3 securing their top two positions. Courtney Nicholl powered the Mercedes-AMG C63 SE E Performance to a quicker time in the final qualifying run in 45.257 seconds to place third.
