Ferrari will start the 24 Hours of Le Mans from pole. The Italian team had a perfect day in the hyperpole for the hypercars, as Ferrari also took second place. In LMP2 there was a surprise pole for IDEC Sport. Corvette got the pole in GT.
From the first moment in the hyperpole, the two Ferrari cars were at the top of the timessheet. The pole time: 3:22.982. With that, the team beat the by far favorite Toyota. Hartley managed to take third place, but the second Toyota had to tolerate a Porsche in front of them. Cadillac had a big issue at the end of the session. The car caught fire, and Sebastian Bourdais lost his time for causing a red flag.
Hypercar results
Hyperpole LMP2 results
In the LMP2 cars there was a surprise pole for IDEC Sport. JOTA, with Haas F1 reserve Fittipaldi, did not get better than second place this time after an excellent Wednesday. The Belgian Team WRT (including Robert Kubica) will start third.
Hyperpole LMGTE Am results
The only Corvette was the best in the GT class. Favorite Ben Keating put the car on pole, and on Saturday he and his Dutch teammate Nick Catsburg, among others, will have an excellent chance to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Toyota is by far the fastest, so it is fitted with weights and run.It is simply a bad joke, a cheat rigged.
I agree that the BoP rules are a joke. But Ferrari is penalized with the second most weight after Toyota, and the difference between the two weight penalties is not that much.
Well Ferrari is always good at qualifying!! It's race pace that matters however as we have seen with there f1 cars! Let's hope Ferrari can pull off a win and somehow this can rub off on their f1 team.
Well, without the weight adding rules, they wouldn't be that good. This system is a joke
Yeah, it's really a shame. I hope this kind of rules don't make it to F1... but I kinda have a bad feeling about it
Agreed, but with LM trying to close the gap between the teams, you never know!!
Overall, these cars are pretty slow. About 8 seconds slower per lap than the Toyota's qualifying time back in 2017. Not so impressive. I thought with all this technology, speeds would be greater. I guess the formula is limiting. I remember the Toyota LMP1 hybrids would lose electric assist on the straights due to battery depletion or limits on electric motor speed. Their top speed was rather lame. Remember, hybrids just turn in to regular combustion powered vehicles with a big net power drop under sustained driving.
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