He Porsche number 6, French pilot Kevin Estre during the Hyperpole, he achieved the first place on the grid for the 92nd Edition of the 24 Hours of Le Manswhich follows the favoritism of the leaders of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) in a classification where the Miguel Molina’s Ferrari achieved the room place, while the Alex Palou’s Cadillac have to live in a seventh position.
Seventh place after adding to second place in the classification the five-place penalty they suffered in the last WEC race, after causing an accident at the 6 Hours of Spa (Belgium).
The ‘pole’ went to the Porsche 6, which arrived at the last moment, which was the last to complete the lap after a red flag halted the session with 7 minutes and 41 seconds remaining, after exiting the track of the number 15 BMW, which was fastest in qualifying on Wednesday.
moment where Cadillac number 3driven by the Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais, was leading with 782 thousandths of an advantage over the others, but he got out of the car, never got out of the track again and ended up costing him pole position, although he would start second on Saturday in a 24-hour race that starts at 16:00 CEST (-2 GMT).
Historic test in which the Ferrari number 50, of the Spaniard Miguel Molina, together with the Italian Antonio Fuoco and the Dane Nicklas Nielsen, cannot repeat the pole they achieved in 2023, and will start in fourth place, behind of the Ferrari 51.
LMP2 and LMGT3
Three more Spaniards battled for pole position in their respective categories this Thursday. In LMP2, the second category, which only competes at Le Mans and not the rest of the championship, Lorenzo Fluxá (Oreca Cool Racing) had to settle for sixth place in a Hyperpole with Danish Malthe Jakobsen leading the way.
On the other hand, in LMGT3, the touring car category, the Aston Martin-Heart of Racing team where participating Alex Riberas -although his teammate, American Ian James, who took to the track in the qualifying session- will start fifth.
Furthermore, the team Dani Juncadella (Chevrolet-TF Sport) will start from seventh place after the classification with Japanese Hiroshi Koizumi setting the times.
Source: La Verdad
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