Toyota on pole in Shanghai

Si Porsche semblait bien parti, c’est finalement une Toyota qui s’élancera demain depuis la pole position. Il s’agit de la n°7 confiée durant cette session à Kamui Kobayashi et Mike conway. Credited with an average time of 1'42"832, the Japanese car is 0"440 ahead of the No. 919 Porsche 1 Hybrid of Jani-Lotterer-Tandy. The leading quarter is completed by the No. 8 Toyota (Buemi-Davidson-Nakajima) and the 919 Hybrid n°2 (Bamber-Bernhard-Hartley) which follow at 0”6.

In LM P2, Julien Canal and Bruno Senna offer pole position to the No. 07 Oreca 31 from the Vaillante Rebellion team. The two men also return to the championship with nine points behind the No. 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing crew, fourth in LM P2 today. G-Drive Racing (N. Müller-Rusinov-Roussel) set the second fastest time, ahead of the second car from Vaillante Rebellion. L'Alpine A470 n°36 of Stone-negrao-Menezes is fifth.

In GTE Pro, on a circuit giving pride of place to engine power, theAston Martin n°95 of Thiim-Sorensen signed the best average time in 1'59"697, relegating the n°0 Porsche 219 RSR (Estre-Christensen) and 0"550 respectively to 911"92 and XNUMX"XNUMX. Ferrari 488 GTE n°51 (Calado-Pier Guidi). Followed by the two Ford GTs, the #911 Porsche 91 RSR and the #97 Aston Martin (Adam-Turner).

Aston Martin scored a double blow as the #98 of Dalla Lana-Lamy-Lauda took pole position for GTE Am in 2’02”357. The category trifecta is completed by the No. 911 Porsche 77 RSR from Dempsey-Proton Racing (Cairoli-Dienst-Ried) and the No. 488 Ferrari 54 GTE from Spirit of Race (Flohr-Molina-Castellacci).

The start of the race will be given tomorrow at 4 a.m. French time.