What a finish at Le Mans
What a show in Hyperpole of the 101st edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Estre’s Porsche, the world championship leaders, will start in pole position on Saturday at 4pm, alongside him will be the #3 Cadillac. Then the Ferraris #51 and #50. In the LMP2 class pole for the Oreca #14 driven by Louis Deletraz, in the LMGT3 class the Inception Racing McLaren driven by Iribe will start in front of everyone. That’s all for the Hyperpole news, thanks for joining us. We greet you with the complete starting grid of the Hypercar class. Have a nice evening in the company of FormulaPassion.itappointment on Saturday at 4pm for the live coverage of the race.
9.35pm – This is the picture of the Hyperpole regarding the LMGT3 class.
9.30pm – This is the picture of the Hyperpole regarding the LMP2 class.
9.25pm – Below is the picture of the Hyperpole regarding the Hypercar class.
Checkered flag
9.17pm – Pole position for Estre’s Porsche #6, 3’24″634. Second fastest time for Lynn who will move up five positions, so the #3 Cadillac will be on the front row. Second row for the Ferraris of Pier Guidi and Fuoco.
9.15pm – Lynn’s delay rises to half a second. Estre is 87 thousandths behind Bourdais in T2.
21.14 – Lynn signs the best T1.
21.12 – Pier Guidi climbs to second place, half a second behind Bourdais. Pier Guidi still has one lap to go, but Fuoco returns to the pits. Lynn is fifth.
21.11 – Exaggerates in T1 Fuoco, losing the rear at the Dunlop S, raises his foot and lets Pier Guidi pass.
21.10 – The Cadillac #2 launches followed by the Ferraris #50 and #51.
21.07 – The riders are pushing hard on this launch lap. It won’t be easy to pass in time to do two quick laps.
21.05 – Green lightLet’s start once again.
21.04 – Bourdais will not return to the track with the #3 Cadillac.
9.00pm – The clock is frozen at 7 minutes and 41 seconds from the checkered flag. There will be time for a flying lap or two when track action is resumed.
8.59pm – This red flag prevented Fuoco from closing the lap, he had almost two tenths of an advantage over the Cadillac. As a result of the regulations, Vanthoor’s BMW will lose all laps and will start eighth or seventh based on the placing of the #2 Cadillac,
8.58pm – Vanthoor in gravel at the Indianapolis corner, Red flag.
8.57pm – Best overall partial by Fuoco in T2.
8.56pm – Fuoco scores his best partial in T1. Vanthoor too, but he pays three tenths to the Ferrari driver.
8.55pm – Ten minutes left on the clock, the riders are on track for the second and final run.
8.53pm – The #2 Cadillac failed to close the lap on the previous run.
8.51pm – The other Hypercars were in the pits changing tyres, Chatin with the Alpine is the only one with soft tyres, the others have medium tyres. This is the ranking: Cadillac #3, Ferrari #50, Ferrari #51, Alpine #35, Porsche #6, BMW #15.
8.50pm – Bourdais lowers the reference to 2’24″816. Over the radio, the Cadillac team warned him that they didn’t have telemetry and therefore to close the lap if he saw that he was improving.
8.48pm – Bourdais is flying, he is three tenths ahead of himself.
8.47pm – Sebastian Bourdais with the #3 Cadillac takes the lead in 3’25″294, three tenths from Fuoco. Third Pier Guidi.
8.46pm – Continues to push Fuoco with the #50, he has a three-tenths lead in T2.
8.45pm – The times are still high and we will improve until the end. Now Lynn’s #2 Cadillac scores the best T1.
8.43pm – At the end of the first lap Pier Guidi is on provisional pole in 3″26″142, followed by Fuoco at three tenths and Vanthoor at half a second.
8.42pm – The Ferraris were faster in T2, especially Pier Guidi’s.
8.41pm – Same time 32″7 in T1 for Vanthoor and the two Ferraris of Fuoco and Pier Guidi.
8.40pm – Vanthoor launches.
8.37pm – Vanthoor’s BMW #15 leads the group of cars that are launching. The asphalt temperature is 21.8 C°.
8.35pm – Green light, the Hyperpole of the 24 Hours of Le Mans takes place. 30 minutes available to pilots.
8.33pm – The cars leave the pits to line up at the end of the pit lane.
8.30pm – We need another 5 minutes, we will start at 8.35pm. Rain could hit the final part of Hunaudières.
8.25pm – In the Ferrari garage there is Frederic Vasseur, in the Alpine garage there is Pierre Gasly.
8.20pm – The works are in the area leading to Mulsanne after an accident in the ‘Road to Le Mans’ race.
8.15pm – Start of the Hyperpole confirmed at 8.30pm.
20.10 – Below we summarize the 8 LMP2 and 8 LMGT3 participating in this Hyperpole.
20.05 – Now comes the communication from the Race Direction: we will start at 8.30pm.
8.00pm – More work on the track, the start of the session is postponed.
7.55pm – The Jota will be able to do a test at the nearby airport tomorrow to verify that the assembly has been carried out perfectly. The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024 already has some winners, namely the mechanics of the Jota team who are rebuilding a Porsche 963 piece by piece.
7.50pm – For now it’s not raining on the La Sarthe track. Great action can be expected on the track straight away as the risk of rain cannot be ruled out.
7.45pm – In yesterday’s Qualifying the Ferraris #51 and #83 also collected a 10 second penalty which they will serve during the first pit stop of the race.
7.40pm – We remind you that the #2 Cadillac will have to serve a five-place penalty on the starting grid as a result of the penalty relating to Earl Bamber’s mistake at Spa.
7.35pm – There will only be seven Hypercars on the track: Porsche #12 will not participate due to the damage suffered in the accident that occurred in FP2.
7.30pm – We begin our report with the details relating to the exclusion of Toyota #7 from the Hyperpole due to Kamui Kobayashi leaving the track at the end of the Qualifying session which forced the display of the red flag.
Good evening dear readers of FormulaPassion.it and welcome to the appointment dedicated to the live writing of the Hyperpole of 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. 24 cars participate in this session, 8 per class (Hypercar, LMP2 and LMGT3), the best 8 in yesterday’s Qualifying.
Among the eight Hypercars on the track there are also two Ferrari 499P officials #50 and #51, together with them the BMW #15, the Porsches #6 and #12, the Alpine #35 and the Cadillacs #2 and #3 will compete for pole.
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