Qualifying
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Suprising results on Saturday
Until the last minute all teams fought for the pole position for the 6 hours of the Nürburgring. While Toyota snatched the pole position in LMP1, G-Drive delivered a breathtaking top-end with Jackie Chan DC Racing. In the LMGTE-Pro Porsche were fastest and secured the first starting position for the race. [tabs] [tab title=”LMP1″ start=open]…
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Porsche take Spa pole, Ferrari head up GTE Pro
The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of André Lotterer, Neel Jani and Nick Tandy will start tomorrow’s Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps from pole position after an incident-filled qualifying session at the Belgian track. LMP2 pole went to the #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca, with Ferrari and Porsche fastest in GTE Pro and GTE Am respectively. The session…
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Silverstone Pole for Toyota
Toyota will start tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Silverstone from pole position ahead of Porsche. G-Drive will lead away the LMP1 field. Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway set the fastest combined time of LMP qualifying to put themselfs at the front of tomorrow’s grid, with a fastest indivudal lap time of 1:36.793. Anthony Davidson and Kazuki…
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Ford Dominate GTE Qualifying
The sun came out for GTE qualifying at Silverstone, and with it, quick times for Ford. Harry Tincknell and Andy Priaulx claiming pole position in GTE-Pro. Aston Martin replicated Ford’s dominance themselves in Am, taking pole by 1.3 seconds. The #67 Ford of Andy Priaulx, Pipo Derani and Harry Tincknell will start from a class pole…
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Audi claim final pole position
Audi have taken the final pole position of the year, and of their World Endurance Championship careers. Porsche have managed to put themselves ahead of Toyota on the grid, placing Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Roman Dumas in the box seat to claim their first WEC title. Audi’s #8 car set the fastest combined time…
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Audi, RGR Sport and Aston Martin claim Mexican Poles
Audi have taken pole for the inaugural 6 Hours of Mexico in the LMP1 class. In LMP2 it was a home pole for the RGR Sport team, with thanks to a time from home favorite and team owner Ricardo Gonzalez. The #8 Audi set the fastest time to gain pole position for tomorrow’s 6 Hours…
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Audi and Aston Martin on top in Qualifying
Audi stun in qualifying to steal a 1-2 at the Nurburgring, to take pole for their home race. Aston Martin topped the GTE times. Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler will start from pole for tomorrow 6 Hours of the Nurburgring thanks to a combined time of 1:39.444. Second fastest was the #8 Audi which managed a 1:39.710.…
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Q3 red flagged after deluge
The weather once again dominated proceedings in the third qualifying session for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. The session began in damp conditions, but a full-on deluge hit the track after just 15 minutes. However, a respite from the rain and a drying track meant that at least some running was possible in…
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Rene Rast: “The car felt very good yesterday in the dry”
Rene Rast set pole position in LMP2 alongside Roman Rusinov for G-Drive Racing today for tomorrow’s FIA WEC season opener at Silverstone. Rast confirmed that despite the qualifying session taking place in the wet, the #26 Ligier was being run on the dry set up the team had worked on over the free practice sessions…