Le Mans Series

Rebellion Racing on pole for 6 Heures Du Castellet

© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat

Rebellion Racing will start from pole position in tomorrow’s 6 Heures Du Castellet after setting the fastest lap in qualifying this afternoon. The Swiss driver was the only driver capable of doing a 1:46, securing the pole position on his last flying lap.

Jani’s fastest lap time was also the fastest time set in all sessions this weekend. Pescarolo Team’s Emmanuel Collard secured his place on the front row of the start grid by posting a 1:47.025, 0.242 seconds slower than the Rebellion Racing Lola B10/60 Coupé Toyota. Olivier Pla claimed the third place by setting a 1:47.231

The new Aston Martin AMR-One also took part in the qualifying session, but with limited running so far the team completed a total of eight laps primarily used as further testing of the car. Stefan Mücke posted the fastest lap of the car, a 1:52.267.

In the LMP2 class it was a Nissan 1-2-3. TDS Racing’s Matthias Beche lapped the track in 1:48.928, a lap time that puts the team’s Orea 03 Nissan in fifth on the grid for tomorrow’s race. The Boutsen Energy Racing Oreca 03 Nissan was second quickest, albeit 0.764 seconds behind the #46. The Greaves Motorsport Zytek Z11SN Nissan completed the Nissan top three, with Tom Kimber-Smith securing the Nissan clean sweep.

Hardly unexpected the two HPD ARX-01d were not the quickest cars out on the track in qualifying. The RML car did not even complete a flying lap and returned to the pit after hitting problems just after it had started its first flying lap. The Strakka Racing car joined late, but even on a less crowded track Danny Watts was unable to impress and finished last of the cars that posted a lap time.

Hope Racing’s Nicolas Marroc secured pole position for Hope Racing in the Formula Le Mans class. The #91 Oreca FLM 09 was around four tenths of a second quicker than the Genoa Racing and Neil Garner Motorsport cars.

Porsche was blown away in LM GTE Pro as the Ferrari’s were finally on the pace in qualifying trim. Gianmaria Bruni took the pole position for AF Corse, the Italian setting a 1:58.522 in his Ferrari F458 Italia. Tomas Enge in the young Driver AMR Aston Martin Vantage was just a quarter of a second slower and finished qualifying in second place, while Rob Bell put the Dunlop-shod JMW Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia in third. Vilander and Simonsen taking fourth and fifth for Ferrari. Marco Holzer was the first Porsche driver in sixth place.

Nicolas Armindo secured pole position in the GTE Am category. His lap time of 1:59.370 puts him in front of two out of three GTE Pro Porsches. Second in class was the Team Felbermayr-Proton #88, almost a second slower than the IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche #67. Marco Cioci took third in the AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT2.