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WEC Bahrain: Toyota takes pole to shut factors hole on Porsche
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WEC Bahrain: Toyota takes pole to shut factors hole on Porsche

By Miles Cooper November 1, 2024
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Toyota claimed pole place for the Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale to maneuver one level nearer to Porsche within the producers’ standings.

Brendon Hartley took the highest spot within the Hyperpole session on Friday night aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar, his first pole since this race final 12 months.

It implies that Toyota goes into Saturday’s Bahrain 8 Hours solely 9 factors behind Porsche within the producers’ classification.

Hartley’s 1m46.714s gave him the highest spot by three tenths from team-mate Nyck de Vries, who lapped in 1m47.037s aboard the sister Toyota.

“We had a troublesome day yesterday and weren’t proud of the few issues,” stated Hartley.

“I learnt from quali one the place I didn’t get the tyre prep fairly proper after which the automobile got here alive in Hyperpole.”

Antonio Giovinazzi took third with a 1m47.080s, solely 4 hundredths behind the second Toyota, in the very best of the manufacturing unit Ferrari 499P LMHs.

WEC Bahrain: Toyota takes pole to shut factors hole on Porsche

#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi

Photograph by: Shameem Fahath

Prime Porsche was the shopper Proton 963 LMDh within the palms of Neel Jani, who was an additional two tenths again on a 1m47.234s.

Antonio Fuoco took fifth on the grid within the second of the AF Corse-run manufacturing unit Ferraris with a 1m47.527s.

That put him simply forward of the championship-leading manufacturing unit Penske-run Porsche wherein Kevin Estre took sixth with a 1m47.542s.

The second of the Penske vehicles was seventh in Matt Campbell’s palms, whereas Norman Nato was eighth in the one one of many two Jota buyer Porsches to make it by to Hyperpole for the quickest 10 vehicles in opening qualifying.

The 2 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDhs introduced up the rear of the instances, Dries Vanthoor forward of Robin Frijns.

Frijns, nevertheless, did a time misplaced to a observe limits infringement that will have put him seventh.

Cadillac did not make it by to Hyperpole with its solo V-Collection.R LMDh run by Chip Ganassi Racing, Alex Lynn ending up thirteenth after solely posting a consultant time when the chequered flag had already fallen.

Each Peugeot 9X8 2024 LMHs and Alpine A424 LMDhs had been knocked out on the first stage of qualifying.

#95 United Autosports McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: Joshua Caygill, Nicolas Pino, Marino Sato

#95 United Autosports McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: Joshua Caygill, Nicolas Pino, Marino Sato

Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Pictures

The United Autosports staff locked out the LMGT3 entrance row as McLaren took its second class pole of the season after the Inception Racing IMSA SportsCar Championship squad took qualifying honours on the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.

Josh Caygill grabbed the highest spot within the instances in the very best of the McLaren 720S GT3 EVOs when he lapped in 2m02.201s, simply two thousandths of second faster than team-mate James Cottingham’s 2m02.203s.

The McLarens ended up greater than a tenth away from Francois Heriau, who posted a 2m02.367s in the very best of the AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3s.

Sarah Bovy, the one driver to take two poles in LMGT3 this 12 months, ended up fourth within the Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2.

Alex Malykhin, who has already been topped LMGT3 champion with team-mates Joel Sturm and Klaus Bachler, took fifth within the Manthey PureRxing Porsche 911 GT3-R regardless of carrying 35kg of success ballast.

Each WRT BMW M4 GT3s did not make the lower for Hyperpole within the palms of Darren Leung and Ahmad Al Harthy.

The Bahrain 8 Hours, the eighth and remaining spherical of the 2024 WEC, begins at 14:00 native time on Saturday.

WEC Bahrain 8 Hours – Qualifying outcomes

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