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Nurburgring WEC: Porsche lock out front row
The Porsche #18 car will start from pole position on home ground for tomorrow’s fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Nurburgring.
Edited: Aug 29, 2015, 4:21 PM
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Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb ensured Porsche’s 100% pole record in 2015 remained intact as their two lap average of 1m36.473s was enough to ward off the advances of team-mates Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard in the #17 919 Hybrid.
Dumas was the star of the session, setting an outright fastest lap of 1m36.192s in the early stages.
Audi was again forced to settle for the second row in qualifying and ended up just over a second adrift of the outright pace. Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Jarvis in the #8 Audi R18 e-tron quattro headed Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler in the #7 machine by just under 0.3s.
Toyota was slightly nearer the pace in qualifying but remained in their customary fifth and sixth positions. The #1 TS 040 led the #2 car, which began the session with Alex Wurz just surviving a lurid gravelly moment at the final chicane.
KCMG continued its Le Mans-winning form by claiming a second pole in as many races. The Hong Kong entered team took the best average away from the #26 G-Drive Ligier Nissan in the final minutes. Nick Tandy made the difference in the blue ORECA-Nissan and was able to lap faster than the similarly rapid Sam Bird.
LMGTE Pro saw reigning champions AF Corse claim a front-row lockout as Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni set a best average of 1m54.275s to claim the class pole position.
Bruni and Vilander’s stablemates at the Prancing Horse – James Calado and Davide Rigon in the #71 AF Corse car - were just 0.055s in arrears. Third in class was the leading Aston Martin, driven by the Danish pairing of Marco Sorensen and Christoffer Nygaard.
The #72 SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia made it a fine day for Maranello’s finest as Victor Shaytar and Alexei Basov ensured the car will start from the LMGTE Am class pole. An average best two laps of 1m56.528s was good enough for the top spot.
The #98 Aston Martin Racing trio of Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy and Mathias Lauda suffered more issues when their Vantage V8 ground to a halt in the dying moments of the session. They will, however, from second in class as they look to claim their third class win of the season after previous successes at Silverstone and Spa.
Tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Nurburgring is scheduled to start at 13.00 local time.
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 1'36.473 2 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 1'36.542 0.069 3 Lucas di Grassi
Loïc Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi 1'37.476 1.003 4 Marcel Fässler
André Lotterer
Benoît Tréluyer Audi 1'37.783 1.310 5 Anthony Davidson
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Toyota 1'38.689 2.216 6 Alexander Wurz
S.Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 1'39.371 2.898 7 Nicolas Prost
Mathias Beche
Nick Heidfeld Rebellion/AER 1'42.513 6.040 8 A.Imperatori
D.Kraihamer
Daniel Abt Rebellion/AER 1'42.985 6.512 9 Simon Trummer
Pierre Kaffer CLM/AER 1'44.886 8.413 10 Matt Howson
Richard Bradley
Nick Tandy ORECA/Nissan 1'46.132 9.659 11 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 1'46.505 10.032 12 N.Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
V.Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 1'47.174 10.701 13 Gustavo Yacamán
Luis Derani
Ricardo González Ligier/Nissan 1'47.179 10.706 14 Pierre Ragues
Oliver Webb
Archie Hamilton Morgan/SARD 1'47.572 11.099 15 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 1'48.250 11.777 16 Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel
David Hansson Ligier/HPD 1'48.342 11.869 17 Ed Brown
J.van Overbeek
Jon Fogarty Ligier/HPD 1'50.594 14.121 18 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander Ferrari 1'54.275 17.802 19 Davide Rigon
James Calado Ferrari 1'54.330 17.857 20 Marco Sørensen
C.Nygaard Aston Martin 1'54.498 18.025 21 Patrick Pilet
F.Makowiecki Porsche 1'54.688 18.215 22 Richard Lietz
M.Christensen Porsche 1'54.729 18.256 23 Fernando Rees
Alex MacDowall
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 1'54.933 18.460 24 Darren Turner
Stefan Mücke
Jonathan Adam Aston Martin 1'55.387 18.914 25 Viktor Shaitar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov Ferrari 1'56.528 20.055 26 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 1'57.060 20.587 27 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 1'57.232 20.759 28 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Águas Ferrari 1'57.246 20.773 29 Christian Ried
K.Al Qubaisi
Earl Bamber Porsche 1'57.563 21.090 30 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 1'57.647 21.174 31 F.Castellacci
Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall Aston Martin 1'59.993 23.520
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