Qualifying report
WEC Silverstone
Webber and Hartley take Silverstone WEC pole for Porsche
Porsche celebrated a 1-2 in qualifying for the first round of the 2015 World Endurance Championship at Silverstone on Saturday.
Edited: Apr 11, 2015, 10:50 PM
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The #17 car driven by antipodean duo Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley outpaced the sister 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani and Romain Dumas by 0.619s over the two-lap average, with a combined effort of 1m39.721. Hartley secured the pole with the fastest lap of qualifying – a 1m39.534s lap.
Forming the second row of the grid will be the #8 Audi R18 e-tron quattro and the #1 Toyota TS 040 HYBRID, with the #7 Audi and #2 Toyota Racing sharing the final ‘manufacturer LMP1 row.’
As expected, it was a close session with just 1.9 seconds separating the top six cars.
As per the Free Practice sessions it was the G-Drive Racing team that topped the times with the ‘Latin’ flavoured No.28 Ligier-Nissan of Gustavo Yacaman, Pipo Derani and Ricardo Gonzalez starting from pole. Gonzalez and Derani set a combined 1m48.021s to shade the #26 G-Drive car by just 0.062s.
The new ORECA 05-Nissan of the Hong Kong entered KCMG team placed third, with their Porsche ‘loaned’ driver Nick Tandy putting in an impressive last ditch effort to secure the position.
The #95 Aston Martin Racing entry achieved the best LMGTE Pro two-lap average with Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorenson setting the times which resulted in a 1m59.970s average. This was despite WEC debutant Sorensen stating he had a scrappy lap when he made a couple of small mistakes.
Joining the Aston on the front row in the LMGTE Pro class will be the #99 car of Fernando Rees, Alex MacDowall and Richie Stanaway. The Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke Vantage V8 placed third to make it an Aston clean sweep on their home turf.
Aston Martin Racing celebrated another pole in the LMGTE Am class with the #98 Vantage V8 driven by Pedro Lamy and Paul Dalla Lana setting a combined 2m01.998s lap. Their time was 0.939s quicker than the Larbre Competition Chevrolet Corvette C7, driven by Gianluca Roda and Paolo Ruberti.
Tomorrow’s first round of the WEC is scheduled to begin at 12.00 local time.
Pos Driver Car / Engine Time Gap 1 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 1'39.721 2 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 1'40.340 0.619 3 Lucas di Grassi
Loìc Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi 1'40.352 0.631 4 Anthony Davidson
Sebastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Toyota 1'40.382 0.661 5 Marcel Fassler
Andre Lotterer
Benoit Tréluyer Audi 1'41.153 1.432 6 Alexander Wurz
S.Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 1'41.694 1.973 7 Gustavo Yacamán
Luis Derani
Ricardo González Ligier/Nissan 1'48.021 8.300 8 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 1'48.083 8.362 9 Matt Howson
Richard Bradley
Nick Tandy ORECA/Nissan 1'49.389 9.668 10 N.Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
V.Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 1'49.498 9.777 11 Simon Trummer
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Christian Klien CLM/AER 1'50.622 10.901 12 Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel
David Hansson HPD 1'51.551 11.830 13 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 1'52.284 12.563 14 Jacques Nicolet
Jean-Marc Merlin
Erik Maris Ligier/Nissan 1'53.457 13.736 15 Ed Brown
Jon Fogarty
David Brabham HPD 1'55.491 15.770 16 C.Nygaard
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin 1'59.970 20.249 17 Alex MacDowall
Fernando Rees
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 2'00.175 20.454 18 Darren Turner
Stefan Mücke Aston Martin 2'00.333 20.612 19 Richard Lietz
M.Christensen Porsche 2'00.651 20.930 20 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander Ferrari 2'00.701 20.980 21 Patrick Pilet
F.Makowiecki Porsche 2'01.591 21.870 22 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 2'01.998 22.277 23 Davide Rigon
James Calado Ferrari 2'02.156 22.435 24 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 2'02.937 23.216 25 Christian Ried
K.Al Qubaisi
Klaus Bachler Porsche 2'03.134 23.413 26 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Águas Ferrari 2'03.482 23.761 27 Viktor Shaitar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov Ferrari 2'04.114 24.393 28 F.Castellacci
Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall Aston Martin 2'05.050 25.329 29 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 2'06.024 26.303
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