Toyota runs 1-2 in 2nd LeMans Qualifying Session

#7 Toyota still on top

In Thursday evening's 2nd qualifying session for the 24 Hours of LeMans, the #7 TS050 HYBRID driven by Kamui Kobayashi remained on provisional pole by taking more than a second and a half off his Wednesday time.

Kazuki Nakajima elevated the #8 car he shares with double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Buemi from fourth to second 0.411 seconds behind the #7.

Mikhail Aleshin held the lead momentarily in the #11 SMP Racing entry before being knocked back by the Toyotas, but his 3m16.953s effort did jump the BR Engineering-AER BR1 he shares with Stoffel Vandoorne and Vitaly Petrov ahead of the sister #17 car.

LMP2 – Maldonado on top

[adinserter name="GOOGLE AD"]Pastor Maldonado improved on his provisional pole time to retain top spot in LMP2 for DragonSpeed.

He set a 3m26.490s in the #31 ORECA, three tenths quicker than he managed on Wednesday night.

The DragonSpeed crew had an uneventful session after Roberto Gonzalez's clash with Mike Conway on Wednesday caused a spell in the pits, with its closest challenge coming from Stephane Richelmi's #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing ORECA – which finished 0.331s in arrears.

GTE – Porsche on top

A late performance from Michael Christensen moved Porsche into provisional GTE-Pro pole as the Dane beat Harry Tincknell’s (#67 Ford GT) lap from Wednesday's session.

Christensen posted a 3:49.388 in his No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR, while Antonio Garcia moved the No. 63 Corvette C7.R into second, with Tincknell’s No. 67 Ford GT relegated to third.

Matteo Cairoli’s GTE-Am time still stands from last night, with the No. 88 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche on top with a 3:52.454.

One more two-hour qualifying session will be held to decide the grid for the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, starting at 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. EDT).

Q2 Results