The American cars of the Jota team monopolize the front row with Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber, in front of Jaminet’s Porsche. Only seventh the best Ferrari, that of Antonio Fuoco. Third half of Valentino Rossi in GT3
It will be an all -American first row that will open the 93rd edition of the 24 hours of Le Mans, which will start on Saturday 14 June at 4 pm. The British driver Alex Lynn he scored the pole position aboard the Cadillac V-Series.r number 12 of Hertz Team Jota, with the time of 3’23 “166. Immediately behind, detached less than two tenths, his teammate placed himself Earl Bamber on number 38. In difficulty the Ferrari 499pwith Antonio Fuoco on the number 50 author of the seventh timewhile the number 51 leader of the championship will start 11th and the yellow number 83 will be 13th. The Porsche, third and fifth, are interspersed, interspersed with the BMW number 15 of Dries Vanthor. In difficulty instead Toyotawith the best that will start from tenth place.
Two Ferraris outside 10
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According to the new qualifications regulation, a first session took place on Wednesday 11 June to determine the 15 qualified for the hyperpole on the 21 hypercars registered. Thus the two Peugeot, an Aston Martin, the Porsche di Proton and, surprisingly, the Toyota in red livery by De Vries-Conway-Kobayashi. Then came the disqualification from the session for the Porsche of the champions of the extreme world and Vanthortogether with Campbell, found underweight. Thursday 12 June at 9.15 pm the first session of Hyperpole kicked off, where the 15 qualified cars took to the track to reach the top 10 and thus playing the pole position. The first surprise was the exclusion of the Ferrari number 51 world leader, 11th with Alessandro Pier Guidi. Outside the other 499p number 83 by Ye Yifei, who will start 13th on the grid. Both have not been able to improve enough with the last attempt, but the race will be long and there will be strategic opportunities to go up.
Rossi third in GT3
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Before the session reserved for the hypercars, the Hyperpole for class cars LMP2 and LMGT3 took place. In the latter category, Valentino Rossi He brought his BMW M4 GT3 Evo number 46 of the WRT team in a great time Third positiondemonstrating a good feeling with the Sarthe circuit. The doctor intends to redeem the disappointment of last year, when the car ended up against the barriers during the night while his teammate Ahmad Al-Harthy was behind the wheel. The Pyo -pilot ranked two other Italians behind him: the pole position was caught by the official pilot Aston Martin Mattia Drudion the Ventage number 27 of Heart of Racing, immediately in front of the Ferrari 296 GT3 of Alessio Rovera.
Hypercar qualification: the ranking
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Here are the top ten classified in the Hypercar class Hyperpole, with the pilot author of the best time scored first:
- Cadillac #12 (Lynn-Lare-STEVENS) 3’23 “166
- Cadillac #38 (Bamber-Bourdais-Button) 3’23 “333
- Porsche #5 (Jaminint-Christesen-Andlauer) 3’23 “475
- BMW #15 (D. Vanthor-Marciello-Magnussen) 3’23 “659
- Porsche #4 (Tandy-Nasr-Wehrlein) 3’23 “983
- BMW #20 (S. Van der Linde-Frijns-Rast) 3’24 “009
- Ferrari #50 (fire-molina-nielsen) 3’24 “213
- Cadillac #311 (Drugovich-Aitken-Vesti) 3’24 “380
- Alpine #36 (Makowiecki-Schumacher-Gounon) 3’24 “398
- Toyota #8 (Buemi-Hartley-Hirakawa) No time
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