Lopez clinch pole at Le Castellet

ELMS

Jul 15

Overall ranking

Astonishing lineup in LMP2 this weekend with WEC Hypercar drivers like Pechito Lopez, Alexander Lynn, Jimmy Bruni, Neel Jani, Paul Di Resta, Tristan Vautier as well as several WEC LMP2 or IMSA champiosnhip drivers. This championship as well as IMSA will decide the LMP2 that will participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as this class is not due to run the 2024 WEC championship.

Oliver Jarvis with United Autosports Oreca #22 lost any chance to set a time as he caused a red flag after 4:32 minutes by stopping at the pit entry.

The session could restart with a bit more than 9:30 minutes to go.

Paul Loup Chatin with #28 IDEC Sport took pole from Job Van Uitert with 2’ left for 2 thousandths of a second!

📷 Luc Warnotte Le Castellet: Cool Racing Oreca #47.

11 seconds before the end of the session, Jose Maria Lopez, clinched pole beating Chatin with 0.266 seconds in 1:44.253. The #47 trio Vladislav Lomko, Reshad De Gerus and Jose Maria Lopez will start from pole the 4 Hours of Le Castellet tomorrow at 11:30 am.

📷 Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet: IDEC Sport Oreca #28.

Paul Lafargue, Paul Loup Chatin and Laurents Hörr with IDEC Sport #28 will also start from first row as Chatin was second fastest during the qualifying session.

Manuel Maldonado, Job Van Uitert and Tillman Van Der Helm with #65 Panis Racing will start from second row as Van Uitert set the third fastest lap 0.347 seconds slower than Lopez’s benchmark.

LMP2 Pro/Am ranking

Second pole this season for Salih Yoluc with #34 Racing Team Turkey by setting the fastest lap in 1:46.178, relegating all competitors in the LMP2 Pro/Am to more than a second except…

📷 Luc Warnotte at Paul Ricard: Racing Team Turkey Oreca #34.

Giorgio Roda with #99 Proton Competition was second with his fastest lap 0.830 seconds slower than Yoluc.

📷 Luc Warnotte at Paul Ricard: Proton Competition Oreca #99.

LMP3 ranking

Oscar Tunjo driving #12 WTM By Rinaldi Racing took pole with 3’ to go. In the next minute, he was pushed back by 0.066 second in P3 by #10 and 0.023 seconds by #7 to end his very last lap by setting the benchmark after the end of the 15’ session in 1:51.267. Also notice that #12 is one of the only two Duqueine M30 in class with all the other teams running with the Ligier JS P320.

📷 Luc Warnotte at le Castellet: #12 WTM By Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08.

Glenn Van Berlo #10 Eurointerntional will start from first row also as he clinched the second fastest lap in 1:51.326 + 0.059

📷 Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet: #10 Eurointernatinal Ligier JS P320.

#7 Nielsen Racing is third of class, 0.082 slower than the class benchmark.

LMGTE ranking

Christian Ried, owner of Proton Competition, did set the fastest lap of LMGTE in 1:56.260, 0.147 second ahead of Duncan Cameron with #55 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.