Tandy tops shortened Q2 at Le Mans
Porsche remains at the top of the board in Le Mans qualifying.
Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
Nick Tandy set the fastest time in a shortened second qualifying session at Le Mans this evening. The two hour session was stopped after 1hr 14mins when Jan Magnussen suffered an accident in the Porsche Curves.
Tandy, driving the No.19 Porsche 919 Hybrid set a best of 3m18.862 as Porsche concentrated on evaluating race rubber on long stints. The vast majority of times this evening were slower than yesterday’s best but Tandy improved on the No.19's time by just over 0.5s.
Andre Lotterer registered the second fastest lap of the session by setting a 3m20.561 in the No.7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro. Along with the No.19 Porsche improvement, this was one of the few times which bettered last night’s best effort.
Tristan Gommendy was quickest in LMP2 in the Thiriet by TDS ORECA 05 but was once again reported to the stewards for track limit violations at Tertre Rouge.
The N0.21 Nissan GT-R LM NISMO driven by Tsugio Matsuda went quicker than its best time from yesterday and jumped to 18th position overall.
Aston, Ferrari lead GTE classes
Aston Martin again headed the LMGTE Pro class but this time it was the No.97 Aston Martin driven by Darren Turner that led the pack on a 3m57.447s.
Andrea Bertolini broke the Aston Martin stranglehold in LMGTE Am with a 3m58.837s lap in the SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia. The time though was still 2.6s off Pedro Lamy’s best from yesterday evening and 1.6 away from his ultimate best.
The session was shortened because of Magnussen’s accident and organisers decided to end it there and then, preferring to opt for an earlier start and a thirty minute extension to the final qualifying which will now take place at 21.30 local time.
Other incidents
Other incidents in the session saw the No.13 Rebellion R-One-AER driven by Dominik Kraihamer hit the wall at the first Mulsanne Chicane. This brought out the first red flag of the session as workers had to rebuild the tyre-barrier.
The provisional pole sitting KCMG ORECA 05-Nissan also suffered an accident just after Mulsanne Corner. Matt Howson was at the wheel when the LMP2 Coupe suffered a suspected mechanical breakage pitching the British racer in to a lurid spin.
Many drivers were warned about track limit violations, particularly at Tertre Rouge, during the session with the most noteworthy penalty coming the way of the No.1 Toyota Gazoo Racing entry.
The final qualifying session begins at 21.30 local time.
Complete session results
Cla | No. | Driver | Car / Engine | Time | Delay | Laps | km/h |
1 | 19 | Nico Hülkenberg Earl Bamber Nick Tandy |
Porsche | 3'18.862 | 20 | 246.725 | |
2 | 7 | Marcel Fässler André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer |
Audi | 3'20.561 | 1.699 | 18 | 244.635 |
3 | 18 | Romain Dumas Neel Jani Marc Lieb |
Porsche | 3'20.974 | 2.112 | 15 | 244.133 |
4 | 17 | Timo Bernhard Mark Webber Brendon Hartley |
Porsche | 3'20.980 | 2.118 | 7 | 244.125 |
5 | 8 | Lucas di Grassi Loïc Duval Oliver Jarvis |
Audi | 3'21.681 | 2.819 | 19 | 243.277 |
6 | 9 | F.Albuquerque Marco Bonanomi René Rast |
Audi | 3'22.494 | 3.632 | 12 | 242.300 |
7 | 1 | Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima |
Toyota | 3'25.233 | 6.371 | 20 | 239.066 |
8 | 2 | Alexander Wurz S.Sarrazin Mike Conway |
Toyota | 3'26.380 | 7.518 | 15 | 237.738 |
9 | 12 | Nicolas Prost Mathias Beche Nick Heidfeld |
Rebellion/AER | 3'28.745 | 9.883 | 12 | 235.044 |
10 | 4 | Simon Trummer Pierre Kaffer Tiago Monteiro |
CLM/AER | 3'36.825 | 17.963 | 11 | 226.285 |
11 | 13 | A.Imperatori D.Kraihamer Daniel Abt |
Rebellion/AER | 3'38.044 | 19.182 | 3 | 225.020 |
12 | 23 | Olivier Pla J.Mardenborough Max Chilton |
Nissan | 3'38.954 | 20.092 | 12 | 224.085 |
13 | 21 | Tsugio Matsuda M.Shulzhitskiy Lucas Ordóñez |
Nissan | 3'39.992 | 21.130 | 12 | 223.028 |
14 | 46 | Pierre Thiriet Tristan Gommendy Ludovic Badey |
ORECA/Nissan | 3'40.441 | 21.579 | 18 | 222.573 |
15 | 47 | Matt Howson Richard Bradley Nicolas Lapierre |
ORECA/Nissan | 3'40.624 | 21.762 | 7 | 222.389 |
16 | 36 | N.Panciatici Paul-Loup Chatin V.Capillaire |
Alpine/Nissan | 3'41.477 | 22.615 | 20 | 221.532 |
17 | 48 | Karun Chandhok Mark Patterson N.Berthon |
ORECA/Nissan | 3'41.827 | 22.965 | 18 | 221.183 |
18 | 22 | Harry Tincknell Michael Krumm Alex Buncombe |
Nissan | 3'42.230 | 23.368 | 17 | 220.782 |
19 | 30 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel David Hansson |
Ligier/HPD | 3'42.862 | 24.000 | 16 | 220.155 |
20 | 29 | Leo Roussel David Cheng Ho-Pin Tung |
Morgan/Nissan | 3'43.824 | 24.962 | 11 | 219.209 |
21 | 34 | Chris Cumming Laurens Vanthoor Kévin Estre |
Ligier/HPD | 3'43.853 | 24.991 | 16 | 219.181 |
22 | 41 | Gary Hirsch Gaëtan Paletou Jon Lancaster |
Gibson/Nissan | 3'44.123 | 25.261 | 17 | 218.917 |
23 | 31 | Ed Brown J.van Overbeek Jon Fogarty |
Ligier/HPD | 3'44.631 | 25.769 | 16 | 218.422 |
24 | 42 | Nick Leventis Danny Watts Jonny Kane |
Dome/Nissan | 3'44.704 | 25.842 | 13 | 218.351 |
25 | 40 | Tracy Krohn Nic Jönsson João Barbosa |
Ligier/Judd | 3'44.854 | 25.992 | 19 | 218.205 |
26 | 38 | Simon Dolan Mitchell Evans Oliver Turvey |
Gibson/Nissan | 3'45.770 | 26.908 | 14 | 217.320 |
27 | 28 | Gustavo Yacamán Luis Derani Ricardo González |
Ligier/Nissan | 3'46.504 | 27.642 | 14 | 216.616 |
28 | 26 | Roman Rusinov Julien Canal Sam Bird |
Ligier/Nissan | 3'47.713 | 28.851 | 13 | 215.465 |
29 | 37 | Mikhail Aleshin Kirill Ladygin Anton Ladygin |
BR Engineering/Nissan | 3'52.383 | 33.521 | 6 | 211.135 |
30 | 27 | Maurizio Mediani Devi Markozov N.Minassian |
BR Engineering/Nissan | 3'54.065 | 35.203 | 4 | 209.618 |
31 | 97 | Darren Turner Stefan Mücke Rob Bell |
Aston Martin | 3'57.447 | 38.585 | 17 | 206.633 |
32 | 51 | Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander G.Fisichella |
Ferrari | 3'57.503 | 38.641 | 18 | 206.584 |
33 | 91 | Richard Lietz M.Christensen Jörg Bergmeister |
Porsche | 3'57.843 | 38.981 | 14 | 206.289 |
34 | 71 | Davide Rigon James Calado Olivier Beretta |
Ferrari | 3'58.398 | 39.536 | 16 | 205.808 |
35 | 92 | Patrick Pilet F.Makowiecki Wolf Henzler |
Porsche | 3'58.721 | 39.859 | 16 | 205.530 |
36 | 72 | Viktor Shaitar Andrea Bertolini Aleksey Basov |
Ferrari | 3'58.837 | 39.975 | 16 | 205.430 |
37 | 95 | Marco Sørensen C.Nygaard Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin | 3'58.983 | 40.121 | 15 | 205.304 |
38 | 35 | Jacques Nicolet Jean-Marc Merlin Erik Maris |
Ligier/HPD | 3'59.244 | 40.382 | 6 | 205.081 |
39 | 99 | Fernando Rees Alex MacDowall Richie Stanaway |
Aston Martin | 3'59.263 | 40.401 | 19 | 205.064 |
40 | 63 | Jan Magnussen Antonio García Ryan Briscoe |
Chevrolet | 3'59.754 | 40.892 | 12 | 204.644 |
41 | 64 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Jordan Taylor |
Chevrolet | 4'00.025 | 41.163 | 16 | 204.413 |
42 | 98 | Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin | 4'00.110 | 41.248 | 17 | 204.341 |
43 | 61 | Peter Mann R.Giammaria Matteo Cressoni |
Ferrari | 4'00.311 | 41.449 | 17 | 204.170 |
44 | 53 | J.Bleekemolen Ben Keating Marc Miller |
SRT/Dodge | 4'01.501 | 42.639 | 15 | 203.164 |
45 | 88 | Christian Ried K.Al Qubaisi Klaus Bachler |
Porsche | 4'02.361 | 43.499 | 7 | 202.443 |
46 | 68 | Han Chen Chen Gilles Vannelet Mike Parisy |
Porsche | 4'02.789 | 43.927 | 17 | 202.086 |
47 | 50 | Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti Kristian Poulsen |
Chevrolet | 4'02.871 | 44.009 | 14 | 202.018 |
48 | 83 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Águas |
Ferrari | 4'03.641 | 44.779 | 17 | 201.379 |
49 | 55 | Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin Alex Mortimer |
Ferrari | 4'03.765 | 44.903 | 16 | 201.277 |
50 | 66 | A.Al Faisal Kuba Giermaziak Michael Avenatti |
Ferrari | 4'03.881 | 45.019 | 18 | 201.181 |
51 | 96 | Roald Goethe Stuart Hall F.Castellacci |
Aston Martin | 4'04.193 | 45.331 | 17 | 200.924 |
52 | 67 | Jun San Chen Alex Kapadia Xavier Maassen |
Porsche | 4'05.137 | 46.275 | 17 | 200.150 |
53 | 62 | Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell Jeff Segal |
Ferrari | 4'05.332 | 46.470 | 15 | 199.991 |
54 | 77 | Patrick Dempsey Patrick Long Marco Seefried |
Porsche | 4'08.157 | 49.295 | 9 | 197.715 |
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