WEC – Porsche dominates qualifying at the Nürburgring

The new aero package for the 919 Hybrid seems more than successful. Porsche dominated qualifying for the 6 Hours of the Nürburgring by securing the first two places on the grid. Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb took pole on the No. 18 with an average time of 1’36”473, ahead of the No. 7 led by Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard by only 17 hundredths.

Audi blames the blow since its two R18 e-tron quattros are more than a second behind the reference. The No. 8 of Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Jarvis precedes the No. 3 of Benoît Tréluyer and André Lotterer by 7 tenths. As to Toyota, the two TS040s are more than 2 seconds behind, the n°1 of Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson preceding No. 2 of Stéphane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz.

KCMG took pole in LMP2 with the Oreca 05-Nissan of Matthew Howson and Nick Tandy credited with a time of 1'46"132 which is more than 3 tenths ahead of the Ligier JS P2-Nissan n°26 of G-Drive Racing of Sam Bird and Julien Channel. Signatech completes the top three in the category with theAlpine A450b piloted by Vincent Capillaire and Nelson Panciatici.

The Ferrari from AF Corse were the fastest in GTE Pro during qualifying for the 6 Hours of the Nürburgring (Germany). Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander took the category pole in the #51 Ferrari with an average time of 1'54"275, ahead of their teammates James Calado and Davide Rigon in the #71 by half a tenth.

Aston Martin took 3rd place with the No. 95 of Christoffer Nygaard and Marco Sorensen which was 2 tenths off the benchmark, ahead of the two Porsche 911 RSRs from Team Manthey. SMP Racing took pole in the GTE Am with the #72 Ferrari of Shaytar-Bertolini-Basov credited with an average time of 1’56”528.

The start of the 6 Hours of the Nüburgring will be given tomorrow at 13 p.m.