Qualifying report
WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Le Mans 24h: Toyota edges Glickenhaus in first qualifying
Kamui Kobayashi put Toyota at the head of the order in a rain-hit first qualifying session for the Le Mans 24 Hours on Wednesday evening, leading the two Glickenhaus entries.
Gary Watkins
Edited: Jun 11, 2022, 12:05 PM
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Kobayashi posted a 3m27.247s lap early in the one-hour qualifying period from which the fastest six cars in each class go through to Thursday evening’s Hyperpole session ahead of this weekend’s double-points round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The Japanese driver’s time aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid gave him a margin of almost exactly one tenth over the best of the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs.
Olivier Pla posted a 3m27.355s in the #708 entry to beat Ryan Briscoe in the sister car, which ended up six tenths behind on a 3m27.978s.
The Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 car ended up fourth in the hands of Nicolas Lapierre on a 3m29.656s.
The #8 Toyota was in the pits receiving attention to its rear suspension early in the session when the quick times were posted and only made it out on track after a brief red-flag period after half an hour.
Light rain was already falling when Brendon Hartley began his lap, the New Zealander ending up with an unrepresentative 3m40.842s on an increasingly wet track.
With only five cars in the Hypercar class, the #8 car will still take part in the Hyperpole shoot-out on Thursday.
Kobayashi’s time compared with the 3m26.279s he posted in the initial qualifying session for last year’s 24 Hours.
Robin Frijns was fastest in LMP2 in the lead WRT Oreca 07-Gibson with a 3m29.898s.
That gave him a margin of two tenths over Antonio Felix da Costa, who managed a 3m30.124s in the best of the JOTA Orecas.
WRT’s second full-season WEC car, fielded in conjunction with Swiss entrant Realteam, took third position with Norman Nato on a 3m30.440s.
The two United Autosports entries took fourth and fifth positions, Alex Lynn edging out Filipe Albuquerque by less than a tenth.
The final P2 car to make it through to Hyperpole was the Prema Oreca thanks to a late improvement from Louis Deletraz shortly before the red flag.
Laurens Vanthoor led the way in GTE Porsche in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR with a 3m50.999s.
Antonio Garcia took second spot with a 3m51.132s in the best of the Corvette C8.Rs, while Frederic Makowiecki ended up third in the second of the two Manthey-run factory Porsches.
Nick Tandy was fourth in the second Chevy, while the two works AF Corse Ferrari took the final spots for Hyperpole in fifth and sixth positions.
James Calado ended up half a second off the pace in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo on a 3m51.502s, while Antonio Fuoco was just over a tenth behind in the #52 sister car.
The only car not to make it through in GTE Pro was the privateer Ferrari run by Riley Motorsports.
The NorthWest AMR Aston Martin Vantage GTE ended up quickest in GTE Am courtesy of a 3m52.599s from Nicki Thiim, which was nearly a second up on second-place Mikkel Jensen in the Kessel Racing Ferrari.
The other cars to make the cut for Hyperpole were the #54 AF Corse Ferrari, the #85 Iron Dames Ferrari, the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche and the #61 AF Ferrari.
Marco Sorensen lost a time good enough to make it through to a track limits violation in the TF Sport Aston, as did Spirit of Race Ferrari man Gabriel Aubry.
The session was red flagged for approximately 12 minutes at the halfway point when actor Michael Fassbender crashed his Proton Porsche at the first chicane on the Mulsanne Straight.
The 30-minute Hyperpole session begins at 20:00 on Thursday.
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Cars advancing to Hyperpole:
Hypercar
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Kobayashi/Conway/Lopez)
#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa)
#36 Alpine Elf Team (Lapierre/Vaxiviere/Negrao)
#708 Glickenhaus Racing (Pla/Dumas/Derani)
#709 Glickenhaus Racing (Briscoe/Westbrook/Mailleux)
LMP2
#9 Prema Orlen Team (Kubica/Deletraz/Colombo)
#22 United Autosports USA (Hanson/Albuquerque/Owen)
#23 United Autosports USA (Jarvis/Lynn/Pierson)
#31 WRT (Gelael/Frijns/Rast)
#38 JOTA (Da Costa/Gonzalez/Stevens)
#41 Realteam by WRT (Nato/Habsburg/Andrade)
GTE Pro
#51 AF Corse (Pier Guidi/Calado/Serra)
#52 AF Corse (Molina/Fuoco/Rigon)
#63 Corvette Racing (Catsburg/Garcia/Taylor)
#64 Corvette Racing (Sims/Milner/Tandy)
#91 Porsche GT Team (Bruni/Lietz/Makowiecki)
#92 Porsche GT Team (Estre/Christensen/Vanthoor)
GTE Am
#54 AF Corse (Flohr/Castellacci/Cassidy)
#57 Kessel Racing (Kimura/Schandorff/Jensen)
#61 AF Corse (Prette/Grunewald/Abril)
#77 Dempsey-Proton Racing (Ried/Tincknell/Priaulx)
#85 Iron Dames (Frey/Gatting/Bovy)
#98 Northwest AMR (Thiim/Dalla Lana/Pittard)
2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - first qualifying results:
Pos. # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 7 
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'27.247 2 708 
Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'27.355 0.108 3 709 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Franck Mailleux Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'27.978 0.731 4 36 André Negrão
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxivière Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'29.656 2.409 5 31 
Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast Oreca 07 LMP2 3'29.898 2.651 6 38 
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.124 2.877 7 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.440 3.193 8 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.568 3.321 9 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
William Owen Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.639 3.392 10 9 
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.651 3.404 11 1 Lilou Wadoux
Sébastien Ogier
Charles Milesi Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.368 4.121 12 65 Julien Canal
Nico Jamin
Job Van Uitert Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.382 4.135 13 5 Dane Cameron
Emmanuel Collard
Felipe Nasr Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.462 4.215 14 32 Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Dries Vanthoor Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.808 4.561 15 30 Richard Bradley
Guillermo Rojas
Reshad de Gerus Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.000 4.753 16 37 Ye Yifei
Ricky Taylor
Niklas Kruetten Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.008 4.761 17 28 
Oliver Rasmussen
Ed Jones
Jonathan Aberdein Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.138 4.891 18 48 Paul Lafargue
Paul Loup Chatin
Patrick Pilet Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.285 5.038 19 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle
Esteban Gutierrez Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.549 5.302 20 24 Rodrigo Sales
Matt Bell
Ben Hanley Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.956 5.709 21 35 Jean-Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye
Francois Heriau Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.463 6.216 22 44 
Miroslav Konopka
Bent Viscaal
Tristan Vautier Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.480 6.233 23 39 Eric Trouillet
Sebastien Page
David Droux Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.483 6.236 24 3 Laurents Hörr
Jean Glorieux
Alexandre Cougnaud Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.524 7.277 25 47 Sophia Floersch
John Falb
Jack Aitken Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.371 9.124 26 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.548 9.301 27 27 Cresp Christophe
Michael Jensen
Steven Palette Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 3'38.136 10.889 28 43 David Heinemeier Hansson
Fabio Scherer
Pietro Fittipaldi Oreca 07 LMP2 3'38.491 11.244 29 8 Sebastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'40.842 13.595 30 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'50.999 23.752 31 63 
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nicky Catsburg Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'51.132 23.885 32 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'51.382 24.135 33 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'51.491 24.244 34 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.502 24.255 35 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.614 24.367 36 98 
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'52.559 25.312 37 57 Takeshi Kimura
Frederik Schandorff
Mikkel Jensen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.489 26.242 38 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.690 26.443 39 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'54.081 26.834 40 74 Felipe Fraga
Sam Bird
Shane van Gisbergen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'54.116 26.869 41 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.224 26.977 42 61 
Louis Prette
Conrad Grunewald
Vincent Abril Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'54.316 27.069 43 86 Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera
Ben Barker Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.323 27.076 44 56 Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy
Ben Barnicoat Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.510 27.263 45 46 Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen
Nicolas Leutwiler Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.533 27.286 46 79 Cooper MacNeil
Julien Andlauer
Thomas Merrill Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.912 27.665 47 99 Andrew Haryanto
Alessio Picariello
Martin Rump Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.076 27.829 48 59 Alexander West
Côme Ledogar
Marvin Klein Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.162 27.915 49 21 Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich
Toni Vilander Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.308 28.061 50 55 Duncan Cameron
Matt Griffin
David Perel Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.617 28.370 51 75 Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook
Nicolas Varrone Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.672 28.425 52 66 Renger van der Zande
Mark Kvamme
Jason Hart Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.008 28.761 53 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Charles Fagg Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'56.437 29.190 54 88 Fred Poordad
Max Root
Jan Heylen Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.516 29.269 55 33 Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves
Marco Sørensen Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'57.044 29.797 56 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Alessandro Balzan
Raffaele Giammaria Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 4'05.633 38.386 57 93 
Michael Fassbender
Matthew Campbell
Zacharie Robichon Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 4'07.907 40.660 58 80 Matteo Cressoni
Giancarlo Fisichella
Richard Heistand Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 4'23.223 55.976 59 10 Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen
Sebastien Bourdais Oreca 07 LMP2 60 13 Philippe Cimadomo
Mathias Beche
Tijmen van der Helm Oreca 07 LMP2 3.658 61 45 Steven Thomas
James Allen
Rene Binder Oreca 07 LMP2 62 71 Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues
Gabriel Aubry Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM
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