Toyota and Ferrari on pole at Silverstone

The second and third free practice sessions set the tone: despite a revised and very disadvantageous EoT, Toyota will monopolize the first row of the starting grid tomorrow for the 4 Hours of Silverstone, the opening round of the WEC 2019-2020. Thanks to an average time of 1’36”015, the TS050 Hybrid n°7 of Conway-Kobayashi-Lopez will start from pole position, just in front of the No. 8 of Buemi-Hartley-Nakajima (+0 »315).

The two Rebellion R13s follow the two Japanese, the n°1 (Nato-Menezes-Senna) and the n°3 (Duval-Berthon-Derani) having conceded 0”529 and 0”647 to the reference mark. Ginetta brings up the rear but is not that far behind, the two English riders not conceding more than a second to the winner of the last two editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In LM P2, Job van Uitert being classified "Silver", it was written that it would be hard to get the 07 n°29 of Racing Team Nederland in qualifying. The Dutch team is therefore starting its collaboration with Oreca and TDS Racing in the best possible way. The Van der Garde-Van Eerd-Van Uitert trio will have the No. 07 Oreca 22 from United Autosports (Di Resta-Albuquerque-Hanson) at their side, while the leading fifth is completed by Jackie Chan DC Racing, Cool Racing and Signatech Alpine.

Interrupted for several minutes following the puncture suffered at the front left by the Porsche 911 RSR n°91 by Gianmaria Bruni-Richard Lietz, the session reserved for GTEs is in sight Ferrari take pole position in the GTE Pro thanks to the average time of 1'54"171 signed by the 488 GTE n°51 of James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi. The Briton and his Italian friend are ahead of their stablemates Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina by 0”131 and by 0”690.Aston Martin #97 of Alex Lynn and Maxime Martin, while the #911 Porsche 91 RSR is fourth.

In GTE Am, TF Sport made a splash with its No. 90 Aston Martin Vantage AMR and confirms that it will have to be counted on this season. The Yoluc-Eastwood-Adam trio precedes the Porsche 911 RSR n°56 of Team Project-1, the Aston Martin n°98 and the Ferrari 488 GTE n°83 of AF Corse at the wheel of which Emmanuel Collard, François take turns Perrodo and Nicklas Nielsen.

The start of the race will be given tomorrow at 13 p.m. French time.