ELMS: Berthon ends Tincknell's pole streak

Nathanael Berthon and Murphy Prototypes ended Jota Sport's European Le Mans Series pole streak in Paul Ricard qualifying.

Harry Tincknell had put the Jota Zytek-Nissan on pole for all three 2014 ELMS rounds so far, but GP2 convert Berthon's 1m47.837s in the Murphy ORECA-Nissan at Ricard was just under three tenths better than Tincknell could manage.

Berthon shares the Murphy car with British Formula 3 race winner Pipo Derani for the first team this weekend, alongside team regular Rodolfo Gonzalez.

Ex-Formula 1 driver Christian Klien qualified third in the Morand Morgan-Judd, ahead of Franck Mailleux's Race Performance ORECA-Judd.

ELMS debutant Arthur Pic began his dabble with endurance racing by placing the Sebastien Loeb Racing ORECA sixth, behind the championship-leading Signatech Alpine entry.

SMP's Ferraris took pole in both GTE and GTC with Andrea Bertolini and Luca Persiani, respectively.

It was an all-Ferrari top three in GTE, with the #80 Kessel and #55 AF Corse cars next up, but Kevin Korjus was SMP's nearest rival in GTC in ART's McLaren.