Qualifying report
WEC Monza
Monza WEC: Glickenhaus takes pole, trouble for Peugeot
Glickenhaus Racing secured pole position for this weekend's Monza FIA World Endurance Championship round in a qualifying session shortened by an issue for one of the brand-new Peugeot Le Mans Hypercars.
Gary Watkins
Edited: Jul 10, 2022, 2:37 AM
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Romain Dumas took the top spot by nearly a second aboard the solo #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH after setting a sequence of laps good enough for pole over the course of the 10-minute session, which was red-flagged with around 90 seconds left on the clock.
That was due to the #93 Peugeot 9X8 of Mikkel Jensen coming to a stop on-track between the two Lesmo Curves, the Dane having gone off at the first chicane on his first run before coming into the pits for a new set of tyres.
Dumas, who shares the #708 entry with Olivier Pla and Pipo Derani, set a best of 1m35.416s to go nine tenths up on the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, in which Brendon Hartley set a late improvement of 1m36.335s to bring the gap down to under a second.
Glickenhaus's second pole of the WEC season follows a Balance of Performance adjustment ahead of the Monza event that has given the car an extra 13kW or 18bhp of engine power.
Dumas said: "I was very happy to do some good laps. We had good speed and the lap times were very consistent."
Nicolas Lapierre was two tenths behind the best of the Toyotas aboard the Alpine A480 on a 1m36.489s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a second over Kamui Kobayashi in the second of the Japanese cars.
Kobayashi ended up on a 1m36.919s, but had lost a time that was four tenths faster to a track limits infringement.
The best of the new Peugeot 9X8s was a further three tenths back in the hands of Gustavo Menezes, his 1m37.253s leaving him nearly two seconds off the pace, while Jensen did not set a laptime in the sister car.
Filipe Albuquerque grabbed LMP2 pole for United Autosports right at the end of the session.
He jumped to the head of the class times with a 1m38.403s aboard the #22 Oreca 07-Gibson to knock Mathias Beche down to second in ARC Bratislava’s Pro-am entry.
Beche’s 1m38.731s lap gave him a narrow margin over the 1m38.780s set by Ferdinand Habsburg in the best of the WRT Orecas.
Alessio Rovera was fourth for AF Corse, while James Allen and Robert Kubica rounded out the top six in P2 for Algarve Pro and Prema respectively.
Ferrari claimed its first pole position of the season after bringing up the rear of the GTE Pro field at each of the WEC qualifying sessions so far this year.
Alessandro Pier Guidi leapfrogged AF Corse teammate Antonio Fuoco on his final lap to take qualifying honours in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.
The Italian driver’s 1m45.270s gave him the top spot by just under a tenth after Corvette man Nick Tandy managed to split the Ferraris right at the end with 1m45.324s.
The Briton had earlier set a time good enough for pole, a 1m45.238s that was cancelled by race control for a track limits violation.
Fuoco’s 1m45.328s was still half a second clear of the best of the Porsche 911 RSR-19s.
Ferrari’s change of fortunes follows a BoP break for Monza: the 488 has gained between 12 and 14bhp under a so-called black ball change outside the scope of the automatic BoP system.
Gianmaria Bruni took fourth in the #91 Porsche with a 1m45.804s, which was two tenths up on teammate Michael Christensen’s 1m46.024s in the #92 car.
Sarah Bovy snatched pole position in GTE Am after the chequered flag aboard the Iron Dames Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.
A 1m47.431s gave her the top spot in class by two tenths ahead of TF Sport Aston Martin driver Ben Keating, who had lowered his pole mark by three tenths on his final lap.
The Monza 6 Hours, round four of the 2022 WEC, begins at 12:00 local time on Sunday.
Hypercar/LMP2 results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Avg Time Gap 1 708 Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 1'35.416 2 8 Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'36.335 0.919 3 36 Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 1'36.489 1.073 4 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'36.919 1.503 5 94 Loic Duval
Gustavo Menezes
James Rossiter
Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR 1'37.253 1.837 6 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Will Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.403 2.987 7 44 Miro Konopka
Tijmen van der Helm
Mathias Beche
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.731 3.315 8 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.780 3.364 9 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.817 3.401 10 45 Steven Thomas
James Allen
Rene Binder
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.122 3.706 11 9 Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.203 3.787 12 10 Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen
Sébastien Bourdais
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.481 4.065 13 31 Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.654 4.238 14 1 Lilou Wadoux
Paul-Loup Chatin
Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.682 4.266 15 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle
Esteban Gutierrez
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.692 4.276 16 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.723 4.307 17 35 Jean Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye
François Heriau
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'40.387 4.971 18 28 Oliver Rasmussen
Edward Jones
Jonathan Aberdein
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'44.763 9.347 19 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.159 3.743 20 93 Paul di Resta
Mikkel Jensen
Jean-Eric Vergne
Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR View full results
GTE results:
Cla # Drivers Car Avg Time Gap 1 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'45.270 2 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R 1'45.324 0.054 3 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'45.328 0.058 4 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'45.804 0.534 5 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'46.024 0.754 6 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'47.431 2.161 7 33 Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves Jr.
Marco Sorensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 1'47.658 2.388 8 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'48.206 2.936 9 21 Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich
Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'48.296 3.026 10 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'48.406 3.136 11 98 Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 1'48.534 3.264 12 56 Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy
Ben Barnicoat
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'48.813 3.543 13 86 Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera
Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'48.842 3.572 14 46 Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen
Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'48.966 3.696 15 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Charlie Fagg
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 1'48.987 3.717 16 71 Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues
Gabriel Aubry
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'49.990 4.720 17 88 Fred Poordad
Patrick Lindsey
Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'50.221 4.951 18 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 1'50.296 5.026 View full results
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