Ex♎-Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen believes BMW has a chance at scoring pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans after being pleasantly “surprised” by its pac♏e in first qualifying.

168澳洲5💯最新开奖结果:Dries ꦗVanthoor set the second-quickest time in the No. 15 BMW M Hybrid V8 he shares with Magnussen and Raffaele Marciello in Wednesday’s opening segment of qualifying, just 0.040s down on the chart-setting No. 12 Jota Cadillac V-Series.R🏅 of Alex Lynn.

The other factory BMW qualifie🧸d by Robin🦩 Frijns finished eighth and also secured a safe passage into Hyperpole, which will decide the first 15 positions on the starting grid.

Asked by wuqian0821.com if the qualifying results were a real reflection of the competitive order, Magnussen said: “I hope it's real. That's all I can say. It was a little bit surprising maybe for us, but then on the other ༒hand it's Le Mans, it is a long lap.

“Sometimes you think, ‘Oh we're six tenths behind or we'✨re a second behind’ and you think that's a long way off, but actually equivalent on a different track, it's two te🦩nths or something.

“It can swing around quite 🏅a bit here and a clean lap, a good lap can be easily half a second, one second.”

🗹Pressed further if a pole position is possible for BMW on Thursday, 12 months after Dries Vanthoor topped the opening qualifying, Magnussen said: “I can only judge 🌄from that [qualifying] and looking at that [it] should be possible.

“He did a very, very good lap yesterday, so we hope. All the others also 🔴did a very, very good lap. But we'll have to wait and see.”

BMW has been rapid in qualifying this season, having scored𝔉 four consecutive pole positions at the start of the season in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and regularly qualifying near the front in the Worl♏d Endurance Championship.

However, BMW ꧟has not quite been able to convert that one-lap pace into top results in races, leaving the German manufacturer chasing a first victory of 2025.

Magnussen admitted thಌat BMW has squandered some opportunities to win races this year, but is confident the team can put everyt🐼hing together at Le Mans.

“We've had more speed in the car than the results [show],” he explained. “I think we fee🌊l we missed some opportunities to probably win some race☂s.

🐼“In Daytona, we re🌺ally feel like we should have won that with the pace we had in the car = that was a missed one.

“And there were a couple of other times where I think we didn't probably execute the best we could. But we ha𝄹ve more chances and this is the biggest one, so this is the one where we really want to get it right.”

Asked if a first win of 2025 must ꧅be coming for BMW, the Dane replied: “Oh it's comi🍎ng, for sure.”