168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2020 L🎃e Mans 24 Hours - Pre-Qualifying Results

Toyota emphasised its odds-on favourite status for the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours with its two factory cars well clear of its slim LMP1 opposition in first qualifying around th💫e iconi𝄹c French circuit.

With this year’s event being postponed due to the coronavirus, it is only𓄧 the third time💖 it has been held outside of its traditional June date slot. With only the 1968 race being held in September too, as a consequence it is subject to an earlier dusk and a longer night-time stretch than usual, plus likely lower temperatures than previous years.

It also means mucꦛh of the running has been completed on a Thursday, including the first part of a new  qualifying format that will see 🌠the top six from each class qualify for a ‘Hyper Pole’ shootout session on Friday.

In LMP1 terms, this is i🍸nconsequential as only 5 cars have made the trip to France - the two world Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrids, a pair of Rebellion Racing ♏R13 Gibson machines and the ByKolles Racing ENSO CLM-Gibson P1/01.

As expected, Toyota were dominant to be more than four seconds a lap faste💜r than their rivals, 🎶with the #7 machine of Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi taking provisional pole with a 3m 17.089s lap courtesy of the latter. The #8 car is campaigned by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Kazuki Nakajima.

With such a slim LMꩲP1 entry, the LMP2 class is by contrast thronging with 23 entries - all Oreca-Gibson based, save for three Ligiers and a Dallara - and with a good chance to make it on the overall ♌podium at least if they can be more reliable than their faster counterparts.

Toppin🍸g the timesheets here was 2019 F2 champion Nyck de Vries in the Racing Team Nederland car he shares with fellow Dutchmen Fritz van 🍷Eerd and Giedo van der Garde.

Ex-F1 driverဣ Will Stevens placed the Jack Chan DC Racing Oreca into second place, ahead of another former F1 pedaller Paul di Resta driving the United Autosport car.

Jean-Eric Vergne briefly went top before a track limits time deletion, but he was still third best in the G-Drive Aurus (rebadged Oreca), with Alex Brundle get🗹ting the second United Aut♎osport car into the top six shootout in fourth.

They will be joined ♊by the High Class Racing, who impressed in sixth with Ken🤪ta Yamashita at the wheel.

In LMGTE Pro, Aston Martin sealed a 1-2 with Marco Sorensen ge♎tting the better of Alex Lynn by less than a tenth, ahead of the AF Corse Ferraris, the #51 leading the #71. As expected, the factory Porsche pair🔜 filled the top six to put the three manufacturer entries directly against each other.

In LMGTE Am, th♈e Paul Dalla Lana, Augusto Farfus and Ross Gunn entry topped the timesheets in 36th overall.

The Le Mans 24 Hours - and by extension the WEC - are in a transition phase ahead of new regulations that will see Toyota joined by Alpine (using ex-Rebellion chassis’) and Glickenhaus next year, with Peugeot to join the fray from 2022.