Toyota dominates qualifying at Silverstone

La Toyota n ° 7 of Mike conway et Kamui Kobayashi won pole at the 6 Hours of Silverstone (Great Britain) with an average time of 1’37”304. The TS050 Hybrid precedes the sister car driven in this session by Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima the Porsche 919 Hybrid, qui disposent du kit aéro faibles appuis qui sera utilisé aux 24 Hours of Le Mans, are more than a second behind with the n°1 of Tandy-Lotterer-Jani 3rd ahead of the n°2 of Bernhard-Bamber-Hartley.

In LMP2, it was the No. 07 G-Drive Racing Oreca 26 of Thiriet-Rusinov-Lynn which was the fastest with an average lap of 1’44”387. This is a few hundredths better than theAlpine n ° 36 of Stone-Rao-Menezes. The No. 38 of Jackie Chan DC Racing of Tung-Jarvis-Laurent and the No. 31 Vaillante Rebellion of Canal-Cheers-Senna are in 2nd line.

Porsche lagging behind GTE Pro

The No. 67 Ford GT of Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell took pole in the GTE Pro category at the 6 Hours of Silverstone with an average time of 1:56. The American was 202 tenths ahead of the Ferrari 488 n°71 by Davide Rigon and Sam Bird, while theAston Martin #95 of Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen followed almost a second behind.

The second Ford led by Olivier Pla and Stefan Mücke completed the leading quartet ahead of the No. 97 Vantage of Turner-Adam-Serra. The Porsche 911 RSRs were the least efficient, clocking in at almost 2s from the benchmark.

In GTE Am, it was no surprise that the #98 Aston Martin of Paul Dalla-Lana and Pedro Lamy was the fastest with an average time of 1’59”562.