Giovinazzi puts Ferrari on pole in Austin, Alpine in the second line!

• Antonio Giovinazzi confirmed what Ferrari demonstrated since the start of the weekend by signing the pole position for Lone Star Le Mans this Saturday at the wheel of the 499P n°51 with a time of 1:50.390. The Italian beat Robert Kubica (AF Corse n°83) by 0.277 seconds for a 100% Ferrari front row.
• The great feeling of this session is to be put to the benefit of Charles Milesi, the Frenchman signing a very good fourth time to place theAlpine No. 35 in the second row, the best result for the French LMDh in this exercise.
• Alex Lynn sandwiched the #2 Cadillac between the two Ferraris and theAlpine. Antonio Fuoco completed the top five at the wheel of the #5 Ferrari. The first Porsche is only sixth with Matt Campbell at the wheel of the n°5. On the side of Toyota, the n°7 will only start from ninth place, behind the two BMWs.
• Big surprise with the elimination in the first phase of qualifying of Kévin Estre at the wheel of the Porsche n°6, the car which is leading the championship.
• Another feeling: the non-passage in Hyperpole of Sébastien Buemi driving the No. 8 Toyota, only 12th.
• If Charles Milesi succeeded in placing theAlpine No. 35 in Hyperpole, this is not the case of Mick Schumacher who set the 12th fastest time at the wheel of the No. 36. The German was bothered by a wasp in his cockpit and had to open his left door to get it out.
• Peugeot came close to placing a car in Hyperpol through Mikkel Jensen, but the Dane failed to finish 11th by just 20 thousandths.
• Jenson Button crashed in the No. 963 Hertz Team JOTA Porsche 38 and finished in 17th and penultimate place.
• Daniil Kvyat closed the qualifying session with the Lamborghini SC63 n°18.

Lone Star Le Mans Ranking – Hypercar Qualifying:

Ian James takes pole in GT3

• Ian James caused a surprise by taking pole position in the LMGT3 class on Sunday. The 50-year-old Englishman beat Sarah Bovy by just 0.172 seconds to put his team The Heart Racing, which will run the LMGTXNUMX class, in the lead.Aston Martin en WEC and IMSA next year, at the top of the timesheets at home. It is the first pole position in WEC for the American team.
• François Heriau took third place in the category at the wheel of the #296 Vista AF Corse Ferrari 55, 0.414 seconds behind. Aleksandr Malykhin, who has been formidable in the flying lap exercise since the start of the season, took fourth place, 0.589 seconds behind the best time.
• For his return to the World Championship ofEndurance FIA's Ben Keating qualified ninth in the No. 88 Proton Competition Ford Mustang.
• Join us at 20:00 p.m. (French time) this Sunday for the start of Lone Star Le Mans, the sixth round of the 2024 FIA WEC season.

  Lone Star Le Mans Ranking – LMGT3 Qualifying: