BMW has inherited pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans following a penalty for Cadillac, as #27 Heart of Racing takes back-to-back LMGT3 poles.
Hypercar
BMW will begin this weekend’s 94th edition of the twice-round-the-clock contest from the top spot on the starting grid, after Jack Aitken lost the fastest time of Hyperpole 2 to a penalty.
Aitken, in the #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA entry claimed a 3m22.559s lap to go just 0.005s faster than Dries Vanthoor’s 3m22.564s in the #15 BMW M Team WRT car, but it is the Bavarian marque that will start the race from pole.
The first session, that reduced 15 Hypercars to 10, witnessed a fastest time of 3m.23.018s set by Charles Milesi in the #35 Alpine A424 Hypercar.
LMGT3
The Heart of Racing Team will start from pole position in the ultra-competitive LMGT3 category. Mattia Drudi in the #27 Aston Martin Vantage claimed his second consecutive LMGT3 pole at Le Mans after reprising his 2025 heroics.
The Italian outpaced the #21 VISTA AF Corse Ferrari driven by Alessio Rovera just under a second.
LMP2
LMP2 saw the #29 Forestier by Panis entry set the best time in the Hyperpole after Esteban Masson set a blistering lap of 3m32.885s, heading the #28 IDEC Sport entry driven by Job van Uitert by 0.387s. But it will be the IDEC entry that will start from the pole itself after the #29 will serve a one place grid drop for a qualifying penalty issued on Wednesday evening.
In the earlier Hyperpole 1 session for LMP2 and LMGT3 cars, the times were topped by Tom Dillman in the #43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca-Gibson and #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin driven by Zacharie Robichon respectively.
Full report to follow
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