Porsche wins pole in Shanghai

What if they held a race but no one showed up? Shanghai was a ghost town on Friday. Race fans could care less about the WEC's horrible sounding hybrid engines. Like F1 they have stepped on their dicks.

Porsche took pole in qualifying for round six of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the 5.451-kilometer track in Shanghai.

Neel Jani and Romain Dumas combined for a four-lap average of 1:48.300, the identical aggregate time that Toyota’s Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi recorded in the 25-minute session.

The pole went to the No. 14 Porsche 919 Hybrid as a result of Jani and Dumas recording their quick laps prior to the pairing in the No. 8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid.

Jani and Dumas will share the wheel of the Porsche with Marc Lieb on Sunday.

The sister No. 20 car, qualified by Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley, will roll off third, with a combined average that was only 0.024 seconds slower than the pole-winning time.

Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima qualified the No. 7 Toyota in fourth, while the pair of Audi R18 e-tron quattros were relegated to fifth and sixth after another disappointing qualifying run for the diesel-powered entries.

Top-10 Qualifying results

1 Dumas/Jani/Lieb (Porsche) 1m 48.300s
2 Buemi/Davidson (Toyota) 1m 48.300s
3 Bernhard/Hartley/Webber (Porsche) 1m 48.324s
4 Nakajima/Sarrazin/Wurz (Toyota) 1m 48.534s
5 Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 1m 49.454s
6 Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 1m 50.072s
7 Beche/Heidfeld/Prost (Rebellion-Toyota) 1m 52.431s
8 Belicchi/Kraihamer/Leimer (Rebellion-Toyota) 1m 53.314s
9 Canal/Pla/Rusinov (Ligier-Nissan) 1m 54.327s
10 Bradley/Howson/Imperatori (Oreca-Nissan) 1m 55.301s