On Saturday, Cadillac No. 12 by Will Stevens, Norman Nato and Alex Lynn will go in pole position in the Category-Reine, that of the Hypercar, at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Saturday at 4 p.m., Roger Federer will start the 93rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. And in the Reine category, that of hypercar, it is Cadillac n ° 12 which will start in pole position. On Thursday, the fifteen best cars in the category after Wednesday’s qualifying tests were found between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., under a great heat, for the hyperpole, an exercise introduced in 2020 “to revalue and restore meaning to the speed of speed”, according to the organizers.
And during this half hour when competitors are not allowed to enter their stand or refueling, but can change tires within the limits of the eight allocated, the Englishman Alex Lynn had time to do four laps and signed the best time behind the wheel of Cadillac No. 12 in 3’23 ″ 166. He will therefore leave for pole, with his teammates Will Stevens and Norman Nato, who hope to bring to the American team his very first victory in Le Mans.
Alpine n ° 36 will leave ninth
Lynn has ahead of Cadillac n ° 38 piloted by the New Zealander Earl Bamber (who has the former F1 pilots Sébastien Bourdais and Jenson Button as teammates) of 167 thousandths, while the French Mathieu Jaminet allowed the Porsche n ° 5 to take third place, 493 thousandths (he teams up with Julien Andlauer and Michael Christensen). The Ferrari n ° 50, title holder and piloted by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina, will leave seventh.
The first French car, the Alpine n ° 36, will start in ninth position, with the wheel Mick Schumacher, Frédéric Makowiecki and Jules Gounon. The two Peugeot did not participate in this hyperpole, because they had finished the qualifications outside the top 15. They will leave 17th and 18th. But everything can obviously happen during a 24 -hour race and having a good place on the grid is not synonymous with a guaranteed victory, far from it. Last year, Porsche n ° 6, which left in pole, finished fourth, while the victorious Ferrari was a fifth.
