January 8, 2015 – With a lap time of 1:57.562 minutes, Austrian driver, Martin Ragginger, was fastest in qualifying for the tenth running of the Hankook 24H DUBAI. Thus, Ragginger put the FACH AUTO TECH Porsche 997 GT3 R (#12, Klohs/Ragginger/Richter/Müller) on pole position for the race. Dutch driver Yelmer Buurman qualified the fastest of the two Black Falcon Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 cars (#2, Al Faisal/Haupt/Buurman/Webb) in second place, 0.302 seconds down on Ragginger’s pole-winning time. The second row on the grid also has a Porsche lined up next to a Mercedes-Benz as Christian Engelhart ended up third fastest with the Porsche of last year’s winning team, Stadler Motorsport (#1, Ineichen/Ineichen/Amstutz/Engelhart), with German Thomas Jäger fourth in the RAM Racing Mercedes (#30, Arya/Jäger/Onslow-Cole/Christodoulou).
Pole position in the Porsche class went to the Black Falcon entry (#25, Schuring/Kaiser/Metzger/Raubach) thanks to a fastest time of 2:03.701 minutes, set by the 2011 VLN champion, Manuel Metzger. Only 0.005 seconds further down, French driver Alban Varutti put the GC Automobiles silhouette car (#150, Varutti/Pontais/Tiel/Amrouche) on pole in the SP2 class with a time of 2:03.706 minutes. Fastest SP3 car was the Optimum Motorsport Ginetta G50 (#163, Hankey/Yoluc/Ellis/Barwick) in the hands of Bradley Ellis with a time of 2:09.671 minutes.
BMW works driver Jörg Müller put the MPB Racing Team BMW M235i Cup (#74, Henkola/Kuhs/Henzel/Müller) on pole in the Cup 1 class with a time of 2:17.777 minutes. The A5 class also had a BMW on pole position with Bob Herber, who drove the JR Motorsport BMW E46 GTR (#77, Herber/Lanting/Gill/Jaffray) to a time of 2:11.684 minutes. UAE-based team Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing achieved local success by setting the fastest time in A3T with its SEAT Leon Supercopa (#95, Moutran/Moutran/Moutran/Quaife), driven by Phil Quaife to a time of 2:09.671. Another UAE-based team, Lap 57 Team, was fastest in class A2 with its Honda Integra Type-R (#57, Al Owais/Al Hammadi/Zuhour/Umemoto/Channake) thanks to a lap time of 2:20.836 minutes, achieved by Mohammed Al Owais.
On Friday, 9 January, there is a warm-up from 10.30 till 11.00 hrs. The race starts at 14.00 hrs and ends on Saturday, 10 January, at the same time, followed by the official prize-giving ceremony (all indicated times are local for the UAE, CET is three hours earlier).