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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Le Mans 24h: Hartley beats Kobayashi in dramatic pole duel
Brendon Hartley secured a sixth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours pole position for Toyota in a dramatic Hyperpole qualifying session, leading a one-two for the marque ahead of Kamui Kobayashi.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jun 11, 2022, 12:14 PM
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Toyota's pair of GR010 Hybrids locked out the front row of the grid for the 90th running of the FIA World Endurance Championship centrepiece, with Hartley taking top spot in the #8 machine he shares with Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa with a time of 3m24.408s.
That compares to a 3m23.900s with which Kobayashi took pole for last year's race.
Kobayashi was aiming to secure a fifth pole in six years aboard the #7 Toyota, but came up 0.420s shy with his best lap of 3m24.828s after his best lap was scratched for a track limits violation.
Behind the Toyotas, Alpine's grandfathered A480-Gibson LMP1 took third spot on the grid thanks to a 3m24.850s effort from Nicolas Lapierre, which proved good enough to beat the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs.
Hartley led the way after the initial runs with a 3m25.213s, but with just a few minutes left in the 30-minute shootout that was surpassed by the 3m24.850s set by Alpine driver Lapierre.
Kobayashi then took the top spot back for Toyota with a 3m24.585s that was initially scratched for a track limits infringement, but reinstated before it was beaten anyway by Hartley - only to be then finally disallowed.
Glickenhaus driver Ryan Briscoe briefly occupied second place on a 3m25.841s at the wheel of the #709 car, but was demoted to fourth in the final reckoning ahead of Olivier Pla, who could only manage a 3m26.359s in the #708 example.
WRT, Corvette get class poles
Pole in the LMP2 class went to WRT, as Robin Frijns went more than a second clear of the opposition with a best time of 3m28.394s at the wheel of the #31 Oreca 07-Gibson he shares with Sean Gelael and Rene Rast.
Norman Nato made it a one-two for the Belgian team in the #42 Realteam by WRT-entered car with his best time of 3m29.697s ahead of Filipe Albuquerque in the best of the United Autosports machines, the #22 car.
Rounding out the Hyperpole order in LMP2 were the #38 JOTA car of Antonio Felix da Costa, Louis Deletraz in the sole Prema entry and Alex Lynn in the #23 United machine.
Corvette Racing secured a front-row lockout in GTE Pro, as Nick Tandy set the only sub-3m50s effort in the class at the wheel of the American brand’s #64 C8.R.
Tandy’s best of 3m49.985s compared to 3m50.177s set by Antonio Garcia in the sister #63 car and a 3m50.377s from the best of the works Porsche 911 RSR-19s in third place, the #91 example of Frederic Makowiecki.
Porsche swept the second row of the grid as Laurens Vanthoor took fourth place in the #92 car ahead of the two AF Corse-run Ferrari 488 GTE Evos, Antonio Fuoco leading James Calado.
Pole in GTE Am went to AF Corse Ferrari driver Vincent Abril by just under two tenths from Mikkel Jensen in the Kessel Racing example.
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2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - Hyperpole results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Avg Time Gap 1 8 Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'24.408 2 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'24.828 0.420 3 36 Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'24.850 0.442 4 709 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Franck Mailleux
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'25.841 1.433 5 708 Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'26.359 1.951 6 31 Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'28.394 3.986 7 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'29.697 5.289 8 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Will Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.070 5.662 9 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.373 5.965 10 9 Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.115 6.707 11 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.596 7.188 12 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'49.985 25.577 13 63 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'50.177 25.769 14 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Frédéric Makowiecki
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'50.377 25.969 15 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Laurens Vanthoor
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'50.522 26.114 16 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.779 27.371 17 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.816 27.408 18 61 Louis Prette
Conrad Grunewald
Vincent Abril
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'52.594 28.186 19 57 Takeshi Kimura
Frederik Schandorff
Mikkel Jensen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'52.751 28.343 20 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'53.006 28.598 21 98 Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'53.578 29.170 22 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.757 29.349 23 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.869 29.461 View full results
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