Jetalliance Racing locked out the front row of the grid during a close qualifying session at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in Germany on Saturday ahead of the fourth round in the 2008
FIA GT Championship.
Wendlinger took his seventh FIA GT pole position with a time of 1 minute 23.748 seconds in his #33 Aston Martin DBR9 ahead of his team-mate Alex Muller in the sister machine.
Third went to Christophe Bouchut in the SRT Corvette C6R, with José Maria Lopez fourth for ACA Argentina and Michael Bartels fifth in the Vitaphone Maserati. This made four makes in the top four, with the top seven cars qualifying within a second of each other.
"It has been a pretty good weekend so far," Wendlinger said. "We were also competitive in the two free practice sessions. The car is handling very well, I had a very good lap and I am happy to be on pole position.
"It was a great performance from the team to get first and second, so we have to say thank you."
In GT2, Gianmaria Bruni took his second consecutive pole position for AF Corse, despite carrying the maximum weight of 50 kg round the tight twisting track. He will start ahead of his team-mate Christian Montanari, with Tim Mullen taking third for CR Scuderia.
Fourth went to Matias Russo for Advanced Engineering Pecom Racing Team, ahead of Andrew Kirkaldy in the second CR Scuderia car.
"I think the team did a very good job, with three cars in the top four including the Argentine car, and Christian Montanari was very close to me," Bruni explained.
"We did good work with Michelin to improve the car with the weight, and everything came together. Tomorrow is another day – it is a long two-hour race."
The Citation Cup pole meanwhile went to Wolfgang Kaufmann in the AT Racing Corvette C5R he shares with Aliaksandr Talkanitsa, while G2 was led by the #103 GTO Charouz Mosler MT 900.
The race starts on Sunday at 13:15 hours [local time].
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