Extreme Speed Motorsports continued its break out season in 2012 with a 1-2 performance in GT qualifying here at Petit Le Mans as Guy Cosmo put the #02 ESM Ferrari atop the stellar GT field with a lap of 1:18.677 just 0.052 second up on teammate Toni Vilander in the #01 Ultimat Vodka car.

Cosmo took the pole away from Vilander on his eighth lap in the qualifying session. Joerg Muller took third in the BMW Team RLL ahead of Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Antonio Garcia.

The rapidly improving SRT Viper of Marc Goossens took sixth followed by Joerg Bergmeister in the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche.

The top eight GT cars qualified within 0.58 seconds on the 2.5-mile circuit with sixth of the top seven, including the ESM, Corvette Racing, STR Viper teams are all on MICHELIN tires.

#02 ESM – Guy Cosmo – 1:18.677

#01 ESM – Toni Vilander – 1:18.729

#55 BMW – Joerg Muller – 1:18.972

#4 Corvette – Oliver Gavin – 1:19.065

#3 Corvette – Antonio Garcia – 1:19.086

#93 SRT Viper – Marc Goossens – 1:19.145

#45 FLM – Joerg Bergmeister – 1:19.225