Le Mans 24 Jam: Kobayashi dan Toyota rebut pole provisional
Pembalap Toyota #7, Kamui Kobayashi, berhasil merebut pole provisional setelah memuncaki sesi kualifikasi pertama Le Mans 24 Jam yang berlangsung pada hari Rabu malam.
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Sesi sempat tertunda 20 menit setelah adanya perbaikan pada pagar pembatas di sekitar kompleks tikungan Porsche – akibat kecelakaan yang terjadi pada sesi latihan balapan pendukung Road to Le Mans.
Dengan sisa waktu 1 jam 40 menit, sesi kualifikasi pertama akhirnya bisa dimulai. Catatan waktu Neel Jani pada sesi latihan sebelumnya, 3 menit 20,362 detik, langsung dikalahkan oleh Timo Bernhard yang mencetak waktu 3 menit 19,710 pada putaran pembuka di mobil Porsche 919 Hybrid #2.
Raihan pembalap Jerman tersebut sempat bertahan di puncak sebelum Kobayashi mencatat waktu 3 menit 18,793 detik.
Catatan waktu terbaik Kobayashi bertahan hingga bendera finis dikibaskan. Mantan pembalap Sauber dan Caterham F1 itu mengamankan pole provisional bersama rekan satu mobilnya, Mike Conway dan Stephane Sarrazin.
Kazuki Nakajima melengkapi hasil 1-2 Toyota setelah mobil TS050 Hybrid #8 mengitari Circuit de La Sarthe dalam waktu 3 menit 19,431 detik, terpaut 0,638 detik lebih lambat dari kompatriot Kobayashi.
Bernhard menempati urutan ketiga, terpaut 0,917 detik lebih lambat dari pemuncak sesi, tapi unggul di depan mobil ketiga Toyota, mobil #9 yang dikemudikan Nicolas Lapierre.
Porsche #1 melengkapi lima mobil LMP1 manufaktur di urutan kelima setelah Jani mencatat waktu 3 menit 21,165 detik, terpaut 1,2 detik di belakang Lapierre.
Satu-satunya peserta LMP1 privatir, ByKolles ENSO CLM #4, terpaut 10 detik lebih lambat dari raihan Kobayashi setelah Dominik Kraihamer mencetak waktu 3 menit 28,887 detik.
Sementara pembalap tuan rumah, Matthieu Vaxiviere, berhasil mengamankan pole provisional untuk kelas LMP2 setelah mencetak waktu 3 menit 29,333 detik, mengemudikan mobil TDS Oreca #28.
Aston sapu bersih kelas GTE
Marco Sorensen mencatat waktu 3 menit 52,748 detik, yang kemudian bisa pertajam menjadi 3 menit 52,117 detik untuk membawa mobil Aston Martin Vantage #95, yang ia kemudikan bersama Nicki Thiim dan Richie Stanaway, ke posisi teratas kelas GTE Pro hingga bendera finis dikibaskan.
Pemuncak sesi latihan, Sam Bird, terpaut 0,1 detik lebih lambat setelah rekan satu mobilnya di AF Corse #71, Davide Rigon dan Miguel Molina, tidak mampu memperbaiki raihan 3 menit 52,235 detik.
Sementara mobil kedua AF Corse, Ferrari 488 #51, yang dikemudikan James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi, dan Michele Rugolo, menempati urutan ketiga, terpaut 0,888 detik lebih lambat dari mobil rekan satu tim mereka.
Di kelas GTE Am, sesi kualifikasi pertama juga dikuasai kubu Aston Martin. Pembalap Portugal, Pedro Lamy, mengemudikan mobil Vantage #98 untuk mencatat waktu 3 menit 55,232 detik, yang kemudian dipertajam rekan satu mobil, Mathias Lauda, menjadi 3 menit 55,134 detik.
Hasil kualifikasi pertama Le Mans 24 Jam:
Pos | # | Pembalap | Mobil | Kelas | Lap | Waktu | Gap | Interval |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Stéphane Sarrazin Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 26 | 3'18.793 | ||
2 | 8 | Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 26 | 3'19.431 | 0.638 | 0.638 |
3 | 2 | Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 21 | 3'19.710 | 0.917 | 0.279 |
4 | 9 | Nicolas Lapierre Jose Maria Lopez Yuji Kunimoto |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 27 | 3'19.958 | 1.165 | 0.248 |
5 | 1 | Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 21 | 3'21.165 | 2.372 | 1.207 |
6 | 4 | Marco Bonanomi Oliver Webb Dominik Kraihamer |
ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 21 | 3'28.887 | 10.094 | 7.722 |
7 | 28 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 22 | 3'29.333 | 10.540 | 0.446 |
8 | 31 | Bruno Senna Julien Canal Nicolas Prost |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 19 | 3'29.851 | 11.058 | 0.518 |
9 | 25 | Vitaly Petrov Simon Trummer Roberto Gonzalez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 23 | 3'30.502 | 11.709 | 0.651 |
10 | 24 | Jean-Eric Vergne Jonathan Hirschi Tor Graves |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 25 | 3'30.847 | 12.054 | 0.345 |
11 | 38 | Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 25 | 3'31.024 | 12.231 | 0.177 |
12 | 36 | Romain Dumas Gustavo Menezes Matthew Rao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 25 | 3'31.065 | 12.272 | 0.041 |
13 | 35 | Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues André Negrao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 20 | 3'31.439 | 12.646 | 0.374 |
14 | 13 | Nelson Piquet Jr. David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 23 | 3'31.636 | 12.843 | 0.197 |
15 | 26 | Roman Rusinov Pierre Thiriet Alex Lynn |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 25 | 3'31.945 | 13.152 | 0.309 |
16 | 22 | Jose Gutierrez Memo Rojas Ryo Hirakawa |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 18 | 3'31.963 | 13.170 | 0.018 |
17 | 40 | Richard Bradley James Allen Franck Matelli |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 19 | 3'32.477 | 13.684 | 0.514 |
18 | 39 | James Winslow Eric Trouillet Enzo Guibbert |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 18 | 3'32.987 | 14.194 | 0.510 |
19 | 29 | Jan Lammers Rubens Barrichello Frits van Eerd |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 23 | 3'33.796 | 15.003 | 0.809 |
20 | 21 | Felix Rosenqvist Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 18 | 3'34.046 | 15.253 | 0.250 |
21 | 32 | Filipe Albuquerque William Owen Hugo Sadeleer |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 20 | 3'34.166 | 15.373 | 0.120 |
22 | 27 | Sergey Sirotkin Viktor Shaytar Mikhail Aleshin |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 7 | 3'34.407 | 15.614 | 0.241 |
23 | 47 | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Andrea Belicchi |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 15 | 3'34.846 | 16.053 | 0.439 |
24 | 23 | Nathanael Berthon Fabien Barthez Timothé Buret |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 24 | 3'35.559 | 16.766 | 0.713 |
25 | 49 | Rik Breukers Miro Konopka Konstantins Calko |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 23 | 3'37.226 | 18.433 | 1.667 |
26 | 45 | Vincent Capillaire Mark Patterson Matt McMurry |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 24 | 3'37.814 | 19.021 | 0.588 |
27 | 17 | Patrice Lafargue Paul Lafargue David Zollinger |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 24 | 3'40.162 | 21.369 | 2.348 |
28 | 43 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Ricky Taylor |
Riley Mk. 30 | LMP2 | 18 | 3'40.813 | 22.020 | 0.651 |
29 | 37 | David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3 | 3'41.393 | 22.600 | 0.580 |
30 | 34 | Karun Chandhok Nigel Moore Philip Hanson |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 11 | 3'41.628 | 22.835 | 0.235 |
31 | 33 | Jacques Nicolet Erik Maris Pierre Nicolet |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 22 | 3'42.660 | 23.867 | 1.032 |
32 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim Richie Stanaway |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 19 | 3'52.117 | 33.324 | 9.457 |
33 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon Miguel Molina |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 3'52.235 | 33.442 | 0.118 |
34 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Michele Rugolo |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 3'53.123 | 34.330 | 0.888 |
35 | 97 | Darren Turner Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 23 | 3'53.296 | 34.503 | 0.173 |
36 | 67 | Pipo Derani Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 24 | 3'54.118 | 35.325 | 0.822 |
37 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Dirk Werner |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 18 | 3'54.243 | 35.450 | 0.125 |
38 | 82 | Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander Pierre Kaffer |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 17 | 3'54.305 | 35.512 | 0.062 |
39 | 91 | Richard Lietz Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 19 | 3'54.564 | 35.771 | 0.259 |
40 | 63 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor |
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 3'54.827 | 36.034 | 0.263 |
41 | 64 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 3'54.876 | 36.083 | 0.049 |
42 | 68 | Tony Kanaan Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 20 | 3'55.059 | 36.266 | 0.183 |
43 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'55.134 | 36.341 | 0.075 |
44 | 69 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 3'55.553 | 36.760 | 0.419 |
45 | 77 | Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'55.692 | 36.899 | 0.139 |
46 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla Billy Johnson |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 20 | 3'55.803 | 37.010 | 0.111 |
47 | 90 | Rob Bell Salih Yoluc Euan Hankey |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 19 | 3'55.953 | 37.160 | 0.150 |
48 | 83 | Andrea Bertolini Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'55.966 | 37.173 | 0.013 |
49 | 50 | Fernando Rees Romain Brandela Christian Philippon |
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE AM | 19 | 3'56.259 | 37.466 | 0.293 |
50 | 61 | Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 23 | 3'56.333 | 37.540 | 0.074 |
51 | 88 | Khaled Al Qubaisi Klaus Bachler Stéphane Lemeret |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'56.507 | 37.714 | 0.174 |
52 | 84 | Will Stevens Robert Smith Dries Vanthoor |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 17 | 3'56.890 | 38.097 | 0.383 |
53 | 62 | Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler Cooper MacNeil |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 20 | 3'57.267 | 38.474 | 0.377 |
54 | 60 | Alvaro Parente Richard Wee Hiroki Katoh |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'57.321 | 38.528 | 0.054 |
55 | 99 | Andrew Howard Oliver Bryant Ross Gunn |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'57.463 | 38.670 | 0.142 |
56 | 93 | Patrick Long Abdulaziz Al Faisal Mike Hedlund |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 22 | 3'58.196 | 39.403 | 0.733 |
57 | 65 | Christina Nielsen Alessandro Balzan Bret Curtis |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 19 | 3'58.249 | 39.456 | 0.053 |
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