The South African was the sole non-Mercedes-AMG driver in the second of two 15-minute sessions, each with five cars, to take pole with a with a time of 2m01.9810s in the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 he will share with Belgians Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts.
“Just coming back to Bathurst and driving the track is an honour,” said the younger of the two van der Linde brothers contesting the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
