Brandon Hartley, a New Zealand Toyota factory team driver, set the fastest time at Le Mans last night by winning the so-called Hyperpole, and on Saturday his crew will start from first position in the 24-hour marathon.
At the end of the session, Hartley completed a 13,626 km circle in 3 minutes on the GR10 Hybrid sports prototype with tail number 8. 24,408 seconds, which is 0.420 seconds better than the result of Kamui Kobayashi, his partner, who drove the same Toyota hypercar at number 7. controlled.
Consequently, these white and red cars will occupy the entire front row and from the second row, the Alpine A480 hypercars and the American team Glickenhous will start the race – this technique is already present in conventional, non-hybrid power plants.
“The feeling is unbelievable! – commentary after the qualifying Hartley. “My apologies to Kamui, who wanted to take pole position for the fifth time, but the car worked fine. It was great to do a lap on the free track and now we are going to focus on preparing for the race.”
In the very numerous LMP2 category, qualifying was won by the crew of the Belgian WRT team, this result was achieved by Robin Fryance, ahead of his teammate Norman Nato.
In the LMGTE Pro class, Corvette Racing drivers Nick Tandy and Antonio Garcia were fastest. To see the difference in speed between hypercars and cars in this category, here is Tandy’s result: 3 min 49,985 seconds. Incidentally, the Briton was the only representative of this category who managed to drive a lap faster than 3 minutes. 50 seconds.
In the LMGTE Am category, the best time was shown by the Italian AF Corse, in fact it is the Ferrari factory team, and the crew will start from pole on the 488 GTE sports car, raced by Vincent Abril, who completed the lap in 3 minutes. 52,594 seconds.
Today, all participants of the 24-hour marathon will take part in the traditional parade through the streets of Le Mans.
Source: F1 News
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