Le Mans: Kevin Estre admits pole lap nearly didn’t happen: “The car was almost out of fuel”

Kevin Estre: “It’s an indescribab𝓰le feeling to be on pole at Le Mans. The team put a mega car on the track for me”.

Kevin Estre Le Mans
Kevin Estre Le Mans

Kevin Estre was the star of the show during Hyperpole qualifying at Le🎉 Mans, putting his #6 Porsche on top in♉ the dying seconds.

The championship leader, along with 📖Andre Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor,🦂 was outside the first two rows for much of the session.

Instead, it was Cadillac who was proving to be the car to beat🉐 in the hands of S෴ebastien Bourdais.

The home🃏 favourite was on provisio⛎nal pole following the opening stint, and when Ferrari failed to out-perform the Cadillac driver, pole appeared to be his.

However, Alex Lynn in the second Cadillac shocked Bourdais with a stunning finaꦇl sector, gaining over half a second to move onto provisional p𒊎ole.

But the Brit was soon pushed down to second as Estre also delivered a💛 brilliant final sector to take over top spot.

“It’s an indescribable feeling to be on pole at Le Mans,” said Estre. “The team put a mega car on the track for me. Things got really stressf🦩ul at the end.

“There was only just♑ enough time on the clock for two hot laps and the car was almost ou🅰t of fuel.

“Bꦺut it was a lot of fun to drive the Porsche 963 with the tyre🌼s in the ideal operating window. I simply stayed on the gas and pulled off the lap.

“Iౠ’m so proud – of the pole and the amazing wor🌱k from the entire team over the past few months.

“Now, we get to start the biggest r♕ace in the world from the very front!”

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