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<strong> Le Mans Q1:</strong> #7 Toyota on top despite crash, #8 Toyota struggles

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 Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	3:17.161
2	Stéphane Sarrazin Egor Orudzhev Sergey Sirotkin	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	3:17.633	0.472
3	Thomas Laurent Nathanael Berthon Gustavo Menezes	Rebellion R13	LMP1	3:19.603	2.442
4	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Fernando Alonso	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	3:19.632	2.471
5	Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley Renger van der Zande	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	3:20.200	3.039
6	Neel Jani Andre Lotterer Bruno Senna	Rebellion R13	LMP1	3:20.297	3.136
7	Vitaly Petrov Mikhail Aleshin Stoffel Vandoorne	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	3:20.934	3.773
8	Tom Dillmann Oliver Webb Paolo Ruberti	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	3:25.246	8.085
9	Roberto Gonzalez Pastor Maldonado Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:26.804	9.643
10	Nicolas Lapierre Andre Negrao Pierre Thiriet	Alpine A470	LMP2	3:26.935	9.774
11	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Paul di Resta	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:27.338	10.177
12	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:27.847	10.686
13	Nico Jamin Pierre Ragues Romain Dumas	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:28.653	11.492
14	Ho-Pin Tung Stéphane Richelmi Gabriel Aubry	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:28.738	11.577
15	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Loic Duval	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:28.840	11.679
16	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Nyck de Vries	Dallara P217	LMP2	3:28.909	11.748
17	Roman Rusinov Job Van Uitert Jean-Eric Vergne	Aurus 01	LMP2	3:29.107	11.946
18	David Zollinger Andrea Pizzitola John Falb	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:29.126	11.965
19	David Heinemeier Hansson Jordan King Ricky Taylor	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:29.498	12.337
20	Ryan Cullen Alex Brundle	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:29.583	12.422
21	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Andrea Belicchi	Dallara P217	LMP2	3:29.748	12.587
22	Rene Binder Julien Canal Will Stevens	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:29.821	12.660
23	Jakub Smiechowski James Winslow Nigel Moore	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:30.744	13.583
24	Tristan Gommendy Vincent Capillaire Jonathan Hirschi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:30.970	13.809
25	John Farano Arjun Maini Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:31.017	13.856
26	Anders Fjordbach Dennis Andersen Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	3:32.945	15.784
27	Miro Konopka Henning Enqvist Konstantin Tereshchenko	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:35.480	18.319
28	Erwin Creed Romano Ricci Nicholas Boulle	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3:38.663	21.502
29	Andy Priaulx Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito	Ford GT	GTE PRO	3:49.530	32.369
30	Patrick Pilet Earl Bamber Nick Tandy	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE PRO	3:49.558	32.397
31	Alex Lynn Maxime Martin Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE PRO	3:50.037	32.876
32	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE PRO	3:50.099	32.938
33	Sven Muller Mathieu Jaminet Dennis Olsen	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE PRO	3:50.278	33.117
34	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE PRO	3:50.468	33.307
35	Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE PRO	3:50.812	33.651
36	Davide Rigon Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	GTE PRO	3:50.850	33.689
37	Nick Catsburg Martin Tomczyk Philipp Eng	BMW M8 GTE	GTE PRO	3:51.476	34.315
38	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Scott Dixon	Ford GT	GTE PRO	3:51.821	34.660
39	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Corvette C7R	GTE PRO	3:52.109	34.948
40	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	GTE PRO	3:52.128	34.967
41	Satoshi Hoshino Giorgio Roda Matteo Cairoli	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM	3:52.454	35.293
42	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Marcel Fassler	Chevrolet Corvette C7R	GTE PRO	3:52.490	35.329
43	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM	3:52.750	35.589
44	Pipo Derani Oliver Jarvis Jules Gounon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	GTE PRO	3:52.997	35.836
45	Joey Hand Dirk Muller Sébastien Bourdais	Ford GT	GTE PRO	3:53.053	35.892
46	Matt Campbell Christian Ried Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM	3:53.408	36.247
47	Augusto Farfus Antonio Felix da Costa Jesse Krohn	BMW M8 GTE	GTE PRO	3:53.498	36.337
48	Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	GTE AM	3:53.530	36.369
49	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:53.793	36.632
50	Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla Billy Johnson	Ford GT	GTE PRO	3:53.793	36.632
51	Salih Yoluc Euan Hankey Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage	GTE AM	3:53.974	36.813
52	Louis Prette Philippe Prette Vincent Abril	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM	3:54.324	37.163
53	Jeff Segal Rodrigo Baptista Wei Lu	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:54.513	37.352
54	Motoaki Ishikawa Olivier Beretta Eddie Cheever III	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:54.737	37.576
55	Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Thomas Preining	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM	3:55.033	37.872
56	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Robert Smith	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:55.544	38.383
57	Takeshi Kimura Kei Cozzolino Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:56.034	38.873
58	Luis Perez Companc Matthew Griffin Matteo Cressoni	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:56.072	38.911
59	Claudio Schiavoni Andrea Piccini Sergio Pianezzola	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:56.147	38.986
60	Manuela Gostner Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE AM	3:56.333	39.172
61	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga	Ford GT	GTE AM	3:56.579	39.418
62	Tracy Krohn Nic Jönsson Patrick Long	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE AM

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Replies (4)

xoya

Posts: 583
Of course Alonso improved the time. That man is a beast, however bad for the team he might or might not be.
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- Jun 13 2019 - 07:21
ajpennypacker

Posts: 2,475
Given the length of the race, is qualifying important at all in WEC?
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- Jun 13 2019 - 07:25
- f1fan0101
  
  Posts: 1,804
  Not really
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  Jun 13 2019 - 10:23
f1fan0101

Posts: 1,804
Nice one from Alonso. I hope there's no rain today
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- Jun 13 2019 - 10:23