The effort earns Girolami a maximum qualifying score of 10 points in his battle to remain in contention for the title, but earned a rebuke from his Munnich Motorsport team on the radio for being “too fast” – a reference to the knock-on effect his speed is likely to have on Balance of Performance compensation weight at future rounds.
Girolami set the only sub-1m15s lap of the weekend, a 1m14.811s, 0.241s faster than Azcona’s shootout effort.
