Qualifying report
WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Tandy tops shortened Q2 at Le Mans
Porsche remains at the top of the board in Le Mans qualifying.
Edited: Jun 11, 2015, 7:43 PM
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Nick Tandy set the fastest time in a shortened second qualifying session at Le Mans this evening. The two hour session was stopped after 1hr 14mins when Jan Magnussen suffered an accident in the Porsche Curves.
Tandy, driving the No.19 Porsche 919 Hybrid set a best of 3m18.862 as Porsche concentrated on evaluating race rubber on long stints. The vast majority of times this evening were slower than yesterday’s best but Tandy improved on the No.19's time by just over 0.5s.
Andre Lotterer registered the second fastest lap of the session by setting a 3m20.561 in the No.7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro. Along with the No.19 Porsche improvement, this was one of the few times which bettered last night’s best effort.
Tristan Gommendy was quickest in LMP2 in the Thiriet by TDS ORECA 05 but was once again reported to the stewards for track limit violations at Tertre Rouge.
The N0.21 Nissan GT-R LM NISMO driven by Tsugio Matsuda went quicker than its best time from yesterday and jumped to 18th position overall.
Aston, Ferrari lead GTE classes
Aston Martin again headed the LMGTE Pro class but this time it was the No.97 Aston Martin driven by Darren Turner that led the pack on a 3m57.447s.
Andrea Bertolini broke the Aston Martin stranglehold in LMGTE Am with a 3m58.837s lap in the SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia. The time though was still 2.6s off Pedro Lamy’s best from yesterday evening and 1.6 away from his ultimate best.
The session was shortened because of Magnussen’s accident and organisers decided to end it there and then, preferring to opt for an earlier start and a thirty minute extension to the final qualifying which will now take place at 21.30 local time.
Other incidents
Other incidents in the session saw the No.13 Rebellion R-One-AER driven by Dominik Kraihamer hit the wall at the first Mulsanne Chicane. This brought out the first red flag of the session as workers had to rebuild the tyre-barrier.
The provisional pole sitting KCMG ORECA 05-Nissan also suffered an accident just after Mulsanne Corner. Matt Howson was at the wheel when the LMP2 Coupe suffered a suspected mechanical breakage pitching the British racer in to a lurid spin.
Many drivers were warned about track limit violations, particularly at Tertre Rouge, during the session with the most noteworthy penalty coming the way of the No.1 Toyota Gazoo Racing entry.
The final qualifying session begins at 21.30 local time.
Complete session results
Cla No. Driver Car / Engine Time Delay Laps km/h 1 19 Nico Hülkenberg
Earl Bamber
Nick Tandy Porsche 3'18.862 20 246.725 2 7 Marcel Fässler
André Lotterer
Benoît Tréluyer Audi 3'20.561 1.699 18 244.635 3 18 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 3'20.974 2.112 15 244.133 4 17 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 3'20.980 2.118 7 244.125 5 8 Lucas di Grassi
Loïc Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi 3'21.681 2.819 19 243.277 6 9 F.Albuquerque
Marco Bonanomi
René Rast Audi 3'22.494 3.632 12 242.300 7 1 Anthony Davidson
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Toyota 3'25.233 6.371 20 239.066 8 2 Alexander Wurz
S.Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 3'26.380 7.518 15 237.738 9 12 Nicolas Prost
Mathias Beche
Nick Heidfeld Rebellion/AER 3'28.745 9.883 12 235.044 10 4 Simon Trummer
Pierre Kaffer
Tiago Monteiro CLM/AER 3'36.825 17.963 11 226.285 11 13 A.Imperatori
D.Kraihamer
Daniel Abt Rebellion/AER 3'38.044 19.182 3 225.020 12 23 Olivier Pla
J.Mardenborough
Max Chilton Nissan 3'38.954 20.092 12 224.085 13 21 Tsugio Matsuda
M.Shulzhitskiy
Lucas Ordóñez Nissan 3'39.992 21.130 12 223.028 14 46 Pierre Thiriet
Tristan Gommendy
Ludovic Badey ORECA/Nissan 3'40.441 21.579 18 222.573 15 47 Matt Howson
Richard Bradley
Nicolas Lapierre ORECA/Nissan 3'40.624 21.762 7 222.389 16 36 N.Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
V.Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 3'41.477 22.615 20 221.532 17 48 Karun Chandhok
Mark Patterson
N.Berthon ORECA/Nissan 3'41.827 22.965 18 221.183 18 22 Harry Tincknell
Michael Krumm
Alex Buncombe Nissan 3'42.230 23.368 17 220.782 19 30 Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel
David Hansson Ligier/HPD 3'42.862 24.000 16 220.155 20 29 Leo Roussel
David Cheng
Ho-Pin Tung Morgan/Nissan 3'43.824 24.962 11 219.209 21 34 Chris Cumming
Laurens Vanthoor
Kévin Estre Ligier/HPD 3'43.853 24.991 16 219.181 22 41 Gary Hirsch
Gaëtan Paletou
Jon Lancaster Gibson/Nissan 3'44.123 25.261 17 218.917 23 31 Ed Brown
J.van Overbeek
Jon Fogarty Ligier/HPD 3'44.631 25.769 16 218.422 24 42 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 3'44.704 25.842 13 218.351 25 40 Tracy Krohn
Nic Jönsson
João Barbosa Ligier/Judd 3'44.854 25.992 19 218.205 26 38 Simon Dolan
Mitchell Evans
Oliver Turvey Gibson/Nissan 3'45.770 26.908 14 217.320 27 28 Gustavo Yacamán
Luis Derani
Ricardo González Ligier/Nissan 3'46.504 27.642 14 216.616 28 26 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 3'47.713 28.851 13 215.465 29 37 Mikhail Aleshin
Kirill Ladygin
Anton Ladygin BR Engineering/Nissan 3'52.383 33.521 6 211.135 30 27 Maurizio Mediani
Devi Markozov
N.Minassian BR Engineering/Nissan 3'54.065 35.203 4 209.618 31 97 Darren Turner
Stefan Mücke
Rob Bell Aston Martin 3'57.447 38.585 17 206.633 32 51 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander
G.Fisichella Ferrari 3'57.503 38.641 18 206.584 33 91 Richard Lietz
M.Christensen
Jörg Bergmeister Porsche 3'57.843 38.981 14 206.289 34 71 Davide Rigon
James Calado
Olivier Beretta Ferrari 3'58.398 39.536 16 205.808 35 92 Patrick Pilet
F.Makowiecki
Wolf Henzler Porsche 3'58.721 39.859 16 205.530 36 72 Viktor Shaitar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov Ferrari 3'58.837 39.975 16 205.430 37 95 Marco Sørensen
C.Nygaard
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin 3'58.983 40.121 15 205.304 38 35 Jacques Nicolet
Jean-Marc Merlin
Erik Maris Ligier/HPD 3'59.244 40.382 6 205.081 39 99 Fernando Rees
Alex MacDowall
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 3'59.263 40.401 19 205.064 40 63 Jan Magnussen
Antonio García
Ryan Briscoe Chevrolet 3'59.754 40.892 12 204.644 41 64 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
Jordan Taylor Chevrolet 4'00.025 41.163 16 204.413 42 98 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 4'00.110 41.248 17 204.341 43 61 Peter Mann
R.Giammaria
Matteo Cressoni Ferrari 4'00.311 41.449 17 204.170 44 53 J.Bleekemolen
Ben Keating
Marc Miller SRT/Dodge 4'01.501 42.639 15 203.164 45 88 Christian Ried
K.Al Qubaisi
Klaus Bachler Porsche 4'02.361 43.499 7 202.443 46 68 Han Chen Chen
Gilles Vannelet
Mike Parisy Porsche 4'02.789 43.927 17 202.086 47 50 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 4'02.871 44.009 14 202.018 48 83 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Águas Ferrari 4'03.641 44.779 17 201.379 49 55 Duncan Cameron
Matt Griffin
Alex Mortimer Ferrari 4'03.765 44.903 16 201.277 50 66 A.Al Faisal
Kuba Giermaziak
Michael Avenatti Ferrari 4'03.881 45.019 18 201.181 51 96 Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall
F.Castellacci Aston Martin 4'04.193 45.331 17 200.924 52 67 Jun San Chen
Alex Kapadia
Xavier Maassen Porsche 4'05.137 46.275 17 200.150 53 62 Bill Sweedler
Townsend Bell
Jeff Segal Ferrari 4'05.332 46.470 15 199.991 54 77 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 4'08.157 49.295 9 197.715
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