Le Mans Q1: #7 Toyota on top despite crash, #8 Toyota struggles
- Published on 12 Jun 2019 23:05
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- By: Fergal Walsh
The #7 Toyota has ended the first qualifying session on top of the standings, while its sister car struggled during the session.
The #7 car set a 3:17.161 with Mike Conway at the wheel, but was involved in an extremely unfortunate crash with an LMP2 car.
The LMP2 DragonSpeed car, which ended that class in P1, spun with Roberto Gonzalez at the wheel during the session. Conway T-boned the car while Gonzalez was recovering to the circuit, forcing both to come back to the pits for repairs.
The #8 car struggled throughout the two hours, and was languishing down in P8 for most of the session - the slowest of all the LMP1 entries.
However, Fernando Alonso managed to improve the time in the final minutes, jumping it up into P4, although it remained 2.471 seconds down on the #7 car.
With the chance of rain coming for Thursday's qualifying sessions, the Q1 times may end up forming the grid for the start of the race which kicks off on Saturday afternoon.
SMP Racing, who Toyota believes will challenge it for pole should tomorrow's sessions go ahead, was second, as the #17 car set a time that just under half a second down on Toyota.
Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK managed to jump to the top of the GTE Pro timesheets in the final moments of the session, with Harry Ticknell moving to the top.
However, the team will have work on its hands as its other car found the barriers during the session.
Ticknell's time that moved him to the head of the GTE Pro class was only marginally faster than #93 Porsche GT team, as just three-hundredths of a second separated the two cars.
Dempsey-Proton Racing was the fastest in the GTE Am category, mixing it up with some of the lower placed Pro cars. However, the other Dempsey-Proton car in the Am class was the only entry not to set a timed lap during the session.
| Pos. | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Mike Conway
|
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 3:17.161 | |
| 2 |
Stéphane Sarrazin
|
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 3:17.633 | 0.472 |
| 3 |
Thomas Laurent
|
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 3:19.603 | 2.442 |
| 4 |
Sébastien Buemi
|
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 3:19.632 | 2.471 |
| 5 |
Henrik Hedman
|
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 3:20.200 | 3.039 |
| 6 |
Neel Jani
|
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 3:20.297 | 3.136 |
| 7 |
Vitaly Petrov
|
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 3:20.934 | 3.773 |
| 8 |
Tom Dillmann
|
ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 3:25.246 | 8.085 |
| 9 |
Roberto Gonzalez
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:26.804 | 9.643 |
| 10 |
Nicolas Lapierre
|
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 3:26.935 | 9.774 |
| 11 |
Philip Hanson
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:27.338 | 10.177 |
| 12 |
Paul Lafargue
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:27.847 | 10.686 |
| 13 |
Nico Jamin
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:28.653 | 11.492 |
| 14 |
Ho-Pin Tung
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:28.738 | 11.577 |
| 15 |
François Perrodo
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:28.840 | 11.679 |
| 16 |
Frits van Eerd
|
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 3:28.909 | 11.748 |
| 17 |
Roman Rusinov
|
Aurus 01 | LMP2 | 3:29.107 | 11.946 |
| 18 |
David Zollinger
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:29.126 | 11.965 |
| 19 |
David Heinemeier Hansson
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:29.498 | 12.337 |
| 20 |
Ryan Cullen
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:29.583 | 12.422 |
| 21 |
Roberto Lacorte
|
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 3:29.748 | 12.587 |
| 22 |
Rene Binder
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:29.821 | 12.660 |
| 23 |
Jakub Smiechowski
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:30.744 | 13.583 |
| 24 |
Tristan Gommendy
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:30.970 | 13.809 |
| 25 |
John Farano
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:31.017 | 13.856 |
| 26 |
Anders Fjordbach
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3:32.945 | 15.784 |
| 27 |
Miro Konopka
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:35.480 | 18.319 |
| 28 |
Erwin Creed
|
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3:38.663 | 21.502 |
| 29 |
Andy Priaulx
|
Ford GT | GTE PRO | 3:49.530 | 32.369 |
| 30 |
Patrick Pilet
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE PRO | 3:49.558 | 32.397 |
| 31 |
Alex Lynn
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | GTE PRO | 3:50.037 | 32.876 |
| 32 |
Gianmaria Bruni
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE PRO | 3:50.099 | 32.938 |
| 33 |
Sven Muller
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE PRO | 3:50.278 | 33.117 |
| 34 |
Michael Christensen
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE PRO | 3:50.468 | 33.307 |
| 35 |
Marco Sorensen
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | GTE PRO | 3:50.812 | 33.651 |
| 36 |
Davide Rigon
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | GTE PRO | 3:50.850 | 33.689 |
| 37 |
Nick Catsburg
|
BMW M8 GTE | GTE PRO | 3:51.476 | 34.315 |
| 38 |
Ryan Briscoe
|
Ford GT | GTE PRO | 3:51.821 | 34.660 |
| 39 |
Jan Magnussen
|
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | GTE PRO | 3:52.109 | 34.948 |
| 40 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | GTE PRO | 3:52.128 | 34.967 |
| 41 |
Satoshi Hoshino
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM | 3:52.454 | 35.293 |
| 42 |
Oliver Gavin
|
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | GTE PRO | 3:52.490 | 35.329 |
| 43 |
Jörg Bergmeister
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM | 3:52.750 | 35.589 |
| 44 |
Pipo Derani
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | GTE PRO | 3:52.997 | 35.836 |
| 45 |
Joey Hand
|
Ford GT | GTE PRO | 3:53.053 | 35.892 |
| 46 |
Matt Campbell
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM | 3:53.408 | 36.247 |
| 47 |
Augusto Farfus
|
BMW M8 GTE | GTE PRO | 3:53.498 | 36.337 |
| 48 |
Paul Dalla Lana
|
Aston Martin Vantage | GTE AM | 3:53.530 | 36.369 |
| 49 |
Thomas Flohr
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:53.793 | 36.632 |
| 50 |
Stefan Mücke
|
Ford GT | GTE PRO | 3:53.793 | 36.632 |
| 51 |
Salih Yoluc
|
Aston Martin Vantage | GTE AM | 3:53.974 | 36.813 |
| 52 |
Louis Prette
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM | 3:54.324 | 37.163 |
| 53 |
Jeff Segal
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:54.513 | 37.352 |
| 54 |
Motoaki Ishikawa
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:54.737 | 37.576 |
| 55 |
Michael Wainwright
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM | 3:55.033 | 37.872 |
| 56 |
Cooper MacNeil
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:55.544 | 38.383 |
| 57 |
Takeshi Kimura
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:56.034 | 38.873 |
| 58 |
Luis Perez Companc
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:56.072 | 38.911 |
| 59 |
Claudio Schiavoni
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:56.147 | 38.986 |
| 60 |
Manuela Gostner
|
Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE AM | 3:56.333 | 39.172 |
| 61 |
Ben Keating
|
Ford GT | GTE AM | 3:56.579 | 39.418 |
| 62 |
Tracy Krohn
|
Porsche 911 RSR | GTE AM |
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Replies (4)
Login to replyxoya
Posts: 583
Of course Alonso improved the time. That man is a beast, however bad for the team he might or might not be.
ajpennypacker
Posts: 2,475
Given the length of the race, is qualifying important at all in WEC?
f1fan0101
Posts: 1,804
Not really
f1fan0101
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Nice one from Alonso. I hope there's no rain today