Heading to Japan this weekend for the FIA WEC which is also celebrating an anniversary, since the 6 Hours of Fuji is the hundredth race of the championship since its beginnings in 2012. As in the Le Mans and Interlagos rounds, it was the British driver Alex Lynn who took pole position at the wheel of the Cadillac n°12, while the sister car, the n°38, will start from second position on the starting grid. Aston Martin et Peugeot share the second line, while the Ferrari will start from sixth, tenth and seventeenth positions. The Italian brand can win the constructors' world title this weekend in the Land of the Rising Sun.
In LMGT3, it was Aston Martin who took pole position with the n°10 Racing Spirit of Léman, ahead of the McLaren United Autosports No. 95, the last winning machine in the WEC category. The 6 Hours of Fuji starts at 4 a.m. tonight.
WEC – 6 Hours of Fuji
The starting grid
Hypercar
1) Cadillac V-Series.R n°12 (Lynn / Nato / Stevens)
2) Cadillac V-Series.R n°38 (Bamber / Bourdais / Button)
3) Aston Martin Valkyrie n°9 (Riberas / Sørensen)
4) Peugeot 9X8 n°93 (Di Resta / Jensen / Vergne)
5) BMW M Hybrid V8 n°20 (Rast / Frijns / S. van der Linde)
6) Ferrari 499P n°51 (Pier Guidi / Calado / Giovinazzi)
7) Porsche 963 n°5 (Andlauer / Jaminet)
8) Toyota GR010 – Hybrid n°8 (Buemi / Hartley / Hirakawa)
9) Alpine A424 n°35 (Chatin / Habsburg / Milesi)
10) Ferrari 499P n°83 (Kubica / Ye / Hanson)
11) Aston Martin Valkyrie n°7 (Tincknell / Gamble)
12) Peugeot 9X8 n°94 (Duval / Jakobsen / Vandoorne)
13) BMW M Hybrid V8 n°15 (Vanthoor / Marciello / Magnussen)
14) Toyota GR010 – Hybrid n°7 (Conway / Kobayashi / De Vries)
15) Ferrari 499P n°50 (Fuoco / Molina / Nielsen)
16) Alpine A424 n°36 (Gounon / Makowiecki / Schumacher)
17) Porsche 963 n°6 (Estre / Vanthoor)
18) Porsche 963 n°99 (Jani / Pino / Varrone)
LMGT3
19) Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 n°10 (Mcintosh / Barrichello / Hasse Clot)
20) McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo n°95 (Leung / Gelael / Sato)
21) McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo n°59 (Cottingham / Baud / Saucy)
22) Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 n°27 (James / Robichon / Drudi)
23) Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 n°92 (Hardwick / Pera / Lietz)
24) Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R n°33 (Keating / Edgar / Juncadella)
25) Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R n°81 (Van Rompuy / Andrade / Eastwood)
26) Ferrari 296 LMGT3 n°54 (Flohr / Castellacci / Rigon)
27) Ford Mustang LMGT3 n°88 (Gattuso / Levorato / Olsen)
28) Ferrari 296 LMGT3 n°21 (Heriau / Mann / Rovera)
29) BMW M4 LMGT3 n°46 (Al Harthy / Rossi / K. van der Linde)
30) Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 n°61 (Berry / Hodenius / Martin)
31) Lexus RC F LMGT3 n°78 (Robin / Gehrsitz / Barnicoat)
32) BMW M4 LMGT3 n°31 (Shahin / Boguslavskiy / Farfus)
33) Lexus RC F LMGT3 n°87 (Umbrarescu / Schmid / Lopez)
34) Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 n°60 (Gilbert / Hanafin / Rueda)
35) Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 n°85 (Martin / Frey / Gatting)
36) Ford Mustang LMGT3 n°77 (Sousa / Tuck / Barker)
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