Qualifying report
WEC Monza
Monza WEC: Toyota locks out front row ahead of Alpine
Toyota driver Jose Maria Lopez bounced back from a mistake on his first hot lap in qualifying to claim pole for Sunday's FIA World Endurance Championship round at Monza.
Gary Watkins
Edited: Jul 19, 2021, 6:08 AM
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Lopez went straight on at the first chicane on his opening attempt, but two laps later he was able to get down to a 1m35.899s in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid to snatch the pole from teammate Brendon Hartley.
Hartley's 1m35.961s left him just six hundredths behind Lopez, who has been fastest in every session of the Monza weekend so far, and was good enough for second position.
Lopez said: "It's not usual to be quickest in every session: I felt confident, but I put a bit of suspense into it.
"We'd discussed with the team that we were only going to go once, so I went for it and still managed to do the lap after three laps on the tyres."
Nicolas Lapierre was only two tenths off Lopez in the Alpine A480-Gisbon grandfathered LMP1 car with a best lap of 1m36.121s.
The Frenchman made a last bid for pole after the 10-minute session was red-flagged when Stoffel Vandoorne crashed his JOTA Oreca 07 LMP2 on the exit of the second Lesmo righthander, but failed to improve his time.
The best of the two Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMHs got within a second of the pace after a late improvement from fourth-placed Pipo Derani.
The Brazilian found three tenths with a 1m36.686s right at the end of the session, although he did not improve his position in the five-car Hypercar field.
Richard Westbrook, who didn't go for a time after the red flag, ended up fifth with a best lap of 1m38.323s.
Charles Milesi took a maiden WEC pole in LMP2 for the Belgian WRT squad.
The Frenchman's 1m38.527s aboard his Oreca 07 set before the red flag secured him the top spot despite a late improvement from Filipe Albuquerque after the break.
The United Autosports Oreca driver got to within three hundredths of the WRT car with a 1m38.557s to move up to second.
Ben Hanley took third position for DragonSpeed with a 1m38.663s, while Nyck de Vries was fourth for Racing Team Nederland.
Kevin Estre maintained his monopoly on the GTE Pro pole with his third qualifying top spot of the season — and fourth in a row — for Porsche.
The Frenchman posted a 1m45.412s on his second flier after straightlining the first chicane on his opening lap to just do enough to beat Alessandro Pier Guidi in the best of the factory AF Corse Ferraris.
Pier Guidi's 1m45.477s in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo gave him a margin of just over a tenth over the second Porsche 911 RSR in which Gianmaria Bruni made a late improvement to 1m45.844s.
Miguel Molina took fourth in the #52 Ferrari with a 1m46.214s.
Ben Keating came out on top in a battle for GTE Am pole with Francois Perrodo that continued after the chequered flag had fallen.
Both drivers set their fastest times on their last laps of the 10-minute session, TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage driver Keating's 1m47.272s just shading Perrodo's 1m47.541s in the AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.
Hypercar and LMP2 results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Avg Time Gap 1 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'35.899 2 8 Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Brendon Hartley
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'35.961 0.062 3 36 Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 1'36.121 0.222 4 708 Pipo Derani
Gustavo Menezes
Olivier Pla
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 1'36.686 0.787 5 709 Romain Dumas
Franck Mailleux
Richard Westbrook
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 1'38.323 2.424 6 31 Robin Frijns
Ferdinand Habsburg
Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.527 2.628 7 22 Philip Hanson
Fabio Scherer
Filipe Albuquerque
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.557 2.658 8 21 Henrik Hedman
Juan Pablo Montoya
Ben Hanley
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.663 2.764 9 29 Frits van Eerd
Paul-Loup Chatin
Nyck de Vries
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.726 2.827 10 82 Ryan Cullen
Oliver Jarvis
Felipe Nasr
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.829 2.930 11 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Anthony Davidson
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.890 2.991 12 70 Esteban Garcia
Loic Duval
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.472 3.573 13 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Renger van der Zande
Alex Brundle
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.491 3.592 14 1 Tatiana Calderon
Sophia Flörsch
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.905 4.006 15 20 Jan Magnussen
Anders Fjordbach
Dennis Andersen
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'40.026 4.127 16 44 Miro Konopka
Oliver Webb
Matej Konopka
Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 1'40.413 4.514 17 28 Sean Gelael
Stoffel Vandoorne
Tom Blomqvist
Oreca 07 LMP2 View full results
GTE results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Laps Avg Time Gap 1 92 Kevin Estre
Neel Jani
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 5 1'45.412 2 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 5 1'45.477 0.065 3 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 5 1'45.844 0.432 4 52 Daniel Serra
Miguel Molina
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 5 1'46.214 0.802 5 33 Ben Keating
Dylan Pereira
Felipe Fraga
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 6 1'47.272 1.860 6 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 6 1'47.541 2.129 7 47 Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto
Antonio Fuoco
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 6 1'47.950 2.538 8 56 Egidio Perfetti
Matteo Cairoli
Riccardo Pera
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 6 1'48.057 2.645 9 61 Christoph Ulrich
Simon Mann
Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 6 1'48.227 2.815 10 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 5 1'48.403 2.991 11 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 6 1'48.437 3.025 12 98 Paul Dalla Lana
Augusto Farfus
Marcos Gomes
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 5 1'48.457 3.045 13 388 Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 5 1'48.700 3.288 14 77 Christian Ried
Jaxon Evans
Matt Campbell
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 6 1'48.766 3.354 15 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Andrew Watson
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 5 1'49.128 3.716 16 88 Andrew Haryanto
Marco Seefried
Alessio Picariello
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 5 1'49.211 3.799 17 86 Michael Wainwright
Benjamin Barker
Tom Gamble
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 6 1'49.244 3.832 18 46 Dennis Olsen
Anders Buchardt
Maxwell Root
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 5 1'51.051 5.639 19 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Andrea Piccini
Matteo Cressoni
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2 View full results
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