LMP2 @ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021 Qualifications & Hyperpole

The position on the grid has been set in 2 different sessions: the qualifications on Wednesday took P7 to the last in LMP2 class ; yesterday at 9PM the 6 first in qualification ran for the Hyperpole session.

📷 by Willy Chanteloup at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021.

Antonio Felix da Costa dominated both sessions and claimed the LMP2 class pole with the JOTA #38, which he shared with Roberto Gonzales and Anthony Davidson.

📷 by Willy Chanteloup at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021.

Louis Deletraz driving WRT’s ELMS #41 Orlen Team WRT Oreca followed with half a second. With his teammates Robert Kubica and Yifei Ye they will start in row 4 (second after the Hypercars).

📷 by Willy Chanteloup at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021.

Will Stevens was 3rd with his #65 Panis Racing Oreca in front of the new World Champion in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship Nyck De Vries driving his #26 G-Drive Aurus.

The two United Autosports competed the top 6 cars participating in the Hyperpole session, with #32 in the hands of N. Jamin, J. Aberdeen and M. Maldonado 5th and #23 piloted by P. di Resta, P. Lynn and W. Boyd 6th.

📷  6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2021.

Surprisingly, the WEC points-leading #22 entry of Filipe Albuquerque, Phil Hanson and Fabio Scherer only managed the 12th quickest lap and was not qualified for the Hyperpole session. JOTA # 28 with S. Gelael, S. Vandoorne and T. Blomqvist qualified 7th.

The LMP2 class suffered a series of accidents that impacted the running of FP3 Wednesday evening after the qualification session. Merriman lost control of his #17 IDEC at the entrance of the Dunlop Curves and was followed a bit later by Juan Pablo Montoya with his DragonSpeed #21. More LMP2 had incidents like Patrick Pilet’s #65 IDEC Sport Oreca, Marco Soensen’s #20 High Class Racing, #1 Richard Mille Racing Oreca of Sophia Floersch and #29 Racing Team Nederland Oreca.

A special thanks you to Willy Chanteloup, who shared his work at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021 .