A Red Bull-backed car will start the Nurburgring 24 Hours from pole position - but it's not the Team Verstappen Mercedes-AMG entry, as Luca Engstler in the #84 Lamborghini went fastest in qualifying.

After top qualifying 1 and 2 cut the top class field down on Friday morning, pole position was decided in a 12-car qualifying 3 pole position shootout in the early afternoon at the Nurburgring Nordschleife.

All the drivers had two timed laps to try to secure pole, but it was Team Abt driver Engstler who went fastest of all aboard his Lamborghini Hurrican with an 8m11.123s.

He leads a Lamborghini 1-2 on the starting grid ahead of the sister #130 entry, with Marco Mapelli three tenths adrift.

Audi's Christopher Haase took third ahead of the Team Verstappen entry. Max Verstappen was sixth in qualifying 2, good enough to secure the car's progress to qualifying 3.

Dani Juncadella was behind the wheel for the crunch laps and ended up just shy of nine tenths slower than the benchmark.

Thomas Neubauer was fifth in the Kondo Racing Ferrari ahead of Maximilian Paul, who made it three Lamborghinis in the top six.

The defending race-winning #1 BMW ended up ninth courtesy of Raffaele Marciello, one place behind the #911 Porsche it beat to victory last year, when the Porsche was hit with a 100-second time penalty.

The 24-hour race gets under way at 3pm local time on Saturday (2pm UK).