24 Hours of Le Mans 2023, Hyperpole, qualifying starting grid

On the Circuit de la Sarthe the Ferrari 499P they snap from front row of the 24 Hours of Le Mans which this year celebrates the edition of Centenary. Upon returning to the top class of the FIA WEC the House of Maranello was the protagonist of Hyperpole: Anthony Fire he was the fastest and at the checkered flag he preceded by 0.773 Alessandro Pier Guidi, who starts second in the endurance race staged on Saturday 10 June 2023.

Two Reds start from the first boxes on the grid in the most famous endurance race in the world as it happened in 1973at the last official participation, when Arthur Merzario And Carlos Pace they got the best time with the 312bp before Jacky Ickx And Brian Redman with the same prototype.

The Ferraris on the front row of the starting grid at Le Mans 2023

24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 Hyperpole Ferrari

The Hyperpole at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 belongs to Ferrari with a time of 3’22″982. In the second row in third place is the Toyota GR010 – Hybrid of the crew Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa and in fourth la Porsche 963 of the trio Jaminet/Nasr/Tandy. The Peugeot 9×8 they start from tenth and eleventh place, respectively with the crews Di Resta/Jensen/Vergne And Duval/Menezes/Müller.

Right from the opening bars of the Hyperpole, held in conditions of dry track with an asphalt temperature of 28.9°C, the 499P occupied the top positions.

Antonio Fuoco with the Ferrari 499P conquered the Hyperpole at Le Mans 2023

On Hypercar number 51 the task of challenging the stopwatch was entrusted to Alessandro Pier Guidiauthor on the first pass of a 3’23”897 earned the momentary leadership. Despite the traffic on the track in the session – reserved for the best eight cars for each class, according to the result of Wednesday’s qualifying – the 39-year-old driver therefore managed to lower his time by signing a 3’23”755 for crew completed by James Calado And Antonio Giovinazzi.

Ferrari hypercar number 51 starts in 2nd position

Anthony Fire in the second part of the timed thirty minutes he closed the distance compared to his teammate, first stopping the clock with a delay of only 0”008 compared to Pier Guidi, then completing a lap in 3’22”982.

The time obtained by the Italian driver, who shares the cockpit with Miguel Molina And Nicklas Nielsen, earned the historic pole position for the Prancing Horse, who returned to compete for overall victory on the La Sarthe circuit after half a century of absence. For the team Ferrari – AF Corse it is the second pole in the current season after the one that Fuoco obtained at the opening act of sebring.

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Hyperpole 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023, STARTING GRID

POS	#	RIDERS	CAR	CLASS	TIME	GAP
1	50	Anthony Fire Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	3’22,982
2	51	James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	3’23,755	0.773
3	8	Sebastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 – Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3’24.451	1,469
4	75	Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr Nick Tandy	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	3’24.531	1,549
5	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López	Toyota GR010 – Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3’24.933	1951
6	2	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	3’25.170	2.188
7	5	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frederic Makowiecki	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	3’25.176	2.194
8	3	Sebastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Renger van der Zande	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	3’25.521	2,539
9	6	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	3’26,900	3,918
10	93	Paul di Resta Michael Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	3’27.260	4,278
11	94	Loïc Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	3’27,850	4,868
12	708	Ryan Briscoe Romain Dumas Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3’28.497	5,515
13	311	Jack Aitken Pipo Derani Alexander Sims	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	3’28,767	5,785
14	709	Nathanaël Berthon Esteban Gutiérrez Frank Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3’29.082	6,100
15	4	Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Tristan Vautier	Vanwall Vandervell 680	HYPERCAR	3’29,745	6,763
16	38	António Felix Da Costa Will Stevens Ye Yifei	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
17	48	Paul-Loup Chatin Laurents Hörr Paul Lafargue	Hour 07	LMP2	3’32,923	9,941
18	28	Peter Fittipaldi David Heinemeier Hansson Oliver Rasmussen,	Hour 07	LMP2	3’33.035	10.053
19	41	Rui Andrade Louis Délétraz Robert Kubica	Hour 07	LMP2	3’33.240	10,258
20	47	Reshad de Gerus Vlad Lomko Simon Pagenaud	Hour 07	LMP2	3’33,580	10,598
21	63	Mirko Bortolotti Daniil Kvyat Doriane Pin	Hour 07	LMP2	3’33,983	11.001
22	14	Mathias Beche Ben Hanley Rodrigo Sales	Hour 07	LMP2	3’34.021	11.039
23	9	Juan Manuel Correa Filip Ioan Ugran Bent Viscaal	Hour 07	LMP2	3’34.658	11,676
24	10	Gabriel Aubry Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.091	12.109
25	45	James Allen Colin Braun George Kurtz	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.578	12,596
26	22	Philip Albuquerque Philip Hanson Frederick Lubin	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35,587	12.605
27	923	Tom Gamble Dries Vanthoor Salih Yoluç	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.658	12,676
28	65	Tijmen Van Der Helm Manuel Maldonado Job Van Uitert	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.691	12,709
29	34	Albert Costa Fabio Luca Scherer Jakub Smiechowski	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35,755	12,773
30	23	Tom Blomqvist Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.853	12,871
31	31	Robin Frijns Sean Gelael Ferdinand Habsburg-Lothringen	Hour 07	LMP2	3’35.853	12,871
32	37	Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre	Hour 07	LMP2	3’36.271	13,289
33	80	Ben Barnicoat Norman Born Francois Perrodo	Hour 07	LMP2	3’36.483	13.501
34	43	Maxime Martin Tom Van Hugh de Wilde	Hour 07	LMP2	3’37.146	14,164
35	35	Olli Caldwell André Negrao Memo Rojas	Hour 07	LMP2	3’37.498	14,516
36	30	Rene Binder Neel Jani Nicolas Pino	Hour 07	LMP2	3’37,584	14,602
37	32	Anders Fjordbach Mark Kvamme Jan Magnussen	Hour 07	LMP2	3’39.303	16,321
38	39	Giedo van der Garde Robert Lacorte Patrick Pilet	Hour 07	LMP2	3’49.288	26.306
39	36	Julien Canal Charles Milesi Matthieu Vaxivière	Hour 07	LMP2	3’59.171	36,189
40	13	René Rast Ricky Taylor Thomas Stevens	Hour 07	LMP2
41	33	Nick Catsburg Ben Keating Nicolas Varro	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE AM	3’52.376	29,394
42	25	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charlie Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3’53.905	30,923
43	54	Francis Castellacci Thomas Flohr David Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’54.582	31,600
44	21	Simon Mann Ulysse De Pauw Julien Piguet	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’54.744	31,762
45	83	Luis Perez-Companc Alessio Rovera Lilou Wadoux	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’55.033	32.051
46	57	Scott Huffaker Takeshi Kimura Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’55.637	32,655
47	55	Gustav Birch Jens Reno Moller Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3’57.240	34,258
48	74	Kei Cozzolino Yorikatsu Tsujiko Naoki Yokomizo	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’59.648	36,666
49	77	Julien Andlauer Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’53.481	30,499
50	86	Ben Barker Richard Pera Michael Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’53.531	30,549
51	100	Andrew Haryanto Chandler Hull Jeff Segal	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’53,590	30.608
52	85	Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’53.603	30,621
53	60	Matthew Cressoni Alessio Picariello Claudio Schiavoni	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’53.626	30,644
54	72	Valentin Hasse-Clot Arnold Robin Maxime Robin	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3’53.703	30,721
55	56	Matthew Cairoli PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeanette	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’53,947	30,965
56	911	Michael Fassbender Richard Lietz Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’54.129	31.147
57	16	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’54.293	31.311
58	98	Ian James Daniel Mancinelli Alex Riberas	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3’54.498	31,516
59	66	Neubauer Thomas James Petrobelli Louis Prette	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3’55,991	33.009
60	88	Jonas Ried Harry Tincknell Don Young	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	3’58.486	35,504
61	777	Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
62	24	Jenson Button Jimmie Johnson Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1	INNOVATIVE CAR	3’47,976	24,994