WEC season 10: 6 Hours of Monza 2022 LMh & LMP2 qualifications
The qualification session has now set the positions in the grid for tomorrow’s 6 Hours race at Autodromo Nationale Monza.
Hypercar
Romain Dumas with #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH was, by almost 1 sec., the fastest in qualifying session and will start on pole the 6 Hours of Monza tomorrow at 12:00. The gap with second is exactly of 0.919 sec.
Brendon Hartley with the #8 Toyota is second and, together with Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa they’ll start from front row.
The third best lap was set by Nicolas Lapierre with #36 Alpine A480, 1.073 sec. slower than Dumas.
Kamui Kobayashi is fourth with Toyota GR010 HYBRID #7.
The two Peugeot 9X8 will start from third row as Gustavo Menezes did set the 5th performance overall in #94 and Mikkel Jensen on #93 who was not able to set a time during the session.
Is BoP playing a role? Hard to have a definite position as the Balance of Performance’s target is to allow cars of different engineering designs to compete in the same category. The FIA and the ACO’s Endurance Committee make adjustments to the BoP every race based on specific formulas developped by both parties. It is too complex to make a judgment with the few elements we have. Following table show you a summary of Monza’s specific LMh BoP.
TABLE 1: Balance of Performance LMh at Monza
LMP2
Filipe Albuquerque was first LMP2 with United Autosport #22. As usual, the #22 squad is among the best of class. Let us now hope that the 2019-20 champion and his teammates Phil Hanson and Will Owen have more luck with the #22 United Autosports’ ORECA Gibson-07 (they share with ) than in the three first races of the season.
Mathias Beche with #44 ARC Bratislava was second, 0.328 sec. Behind Albuquerque.
Ferdinand Habsburg was 0.049 sec. behind Beche with his #41 Realteam by WRT.
