Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Kamui Kobayashi received pole place for tomorrow’s Six Hours of Monza, interrupting the homecoming get together for Ferrari after its landmark victory within the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

13 vehicles have been battling for pole place within the premier Hypercar class, however the quantity seven Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Jose Maria Lopez stood on high of the timesheets – by simply 0.017 seconds from the quantity 50 Ferrari 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, and Nicklas Nielsen.

The highest three qualifiers, together with the quantity eight Toyota of Brendon Hartley, crossed the beginning/end line simply metres aside from one another on their flying laps. Kobayashi, in the midst of the queue, set a brand new Hypercar lap file together with his time of 1’35.358.

Hartley and co-drivers Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa lead the Hypercar championship standings by 25 factors after their irritating runner-up end at Le Mans final month.

Jean-Eric Vergne was fourth-fastest within the quantity 93 Peugeot 9X8. Vergne had set the quickest time within the morning’s free observe session, unlocking extra of the Peugeot’s potential.

Alex Lynn was fifth-fastest within the quantity two Cadillac V-Collection.R, and in sixth place, four-tenths off the pole, was the Le Mans-winning quantity 51 Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi, Alessandro Pier Guidi, and James Calado.

The quantity 94 Peugeot of Gustavo Menezes was simply behind him in seventh, adopted by the factory-run #6 Penske Porsche 963 of Frederic Makowiecki, and the privateer-run quantity 38 Group Jota Porsche of Yifei Ye, with the quantity 5 Penske Porsche of Kevin Estre finishing the highest ten.

Final yr’s shock pole-winning automotive, the quantity 708 Glickenhaus 007 of Olivier Pla, certified eleventh this day out, 1.2 seconds behind the pole time and over a second away from co-driver Romain Dumas’ pole-winning lap time.

The Hypercar area grew by one this weekend with the addition of one other privateer-run Porsche 963, from German workforce Proton Competitors. Harry Tincknell certified twelfth within the quantity 99 Porsche, almost a second and a half up on the quantity 4 Vanwall Vandervell 680 of Esteban Guerrieri.

In LMP2, Robert Kubica received his first pole place within the championship-leading quantity 41 Group WRT Oreca 07/Gibson.

Sarah Bovy received her second pole of the season in GTE Am within the quantity 85 Iron Lynx Porsche 911 RSR-19. Corvette Racing can win the GTE Am championship tomorrow with at the least a second place end.

Pos
No.
Class
Group
Automotive
Drivers
Time

1
7
Hypercar (H)
Toyota Gazoo Racing
Toyota GR010
Mike Conway/Kamui Kobayashi/Jose Maria Lopez
1’35.358

2
50
Hypercar (H)
Ferrari AF Corse
Ferrari 499P
Antonio Fuoco/Miguel Molina/Nicklas Nielsen
1’35.375

3
8
Hypercar (H)
Toyota Gazoo Racing
Toyota GR010
Sebastien Buemi/Brendon Hartley/Ryo Hirakawa
1’35.460

4
93
Hypercar (H)
Peugeot Totalenergies
Peugeot 9X8
Paul di Resta/Mikkel Jensen/Jean-Eric Vergne
1’35.662

5
2
Hypercar (H)
Cadillac Racing
Cadillac V-Collection.R
Earl Bamber/Alex Lynn/Richard Westbrook
1’35.720

6
51
Hypercar (H)
Ferrari AF Corse
Ferrari 499P
Alessandro Pier Guidi/James Calado/Antonio Giovinazzi
1’35.771

7
94
Hypercar (H)
Peugeot Totalenergies
Peugeot 9X8
Loic Duval/Gustavo Menezes/Nico Mueller
1’35.780

8
5
Hypercar (H)
Porsche Penske Motorsport
Porsche 963
Dane Cameron/Michael Christensen/Frederic Makowiecki
1’35.973

9
38
Hypercar (H)
Hertz Group JOTA
Porsche 963
Antonio Felix Da Costa/Will Stevens/Yifei Ye
1’36.188

10
6
Hypercar (H)
Porsche Penske Motorsport
Porsche 963
Kevin Estre/Andre Lotterer/Laurens Vanthoor
1’36.497

11
708
Hypercar
Glickenhaus Racing
Glickenhaus 007
Romain Dumas/Olivier Pla/Nathanael Berthon
1’36.614

12
99
Hypercar (H)
Proton Competitors
Porsche 963
Gianmaria Bruni/Harry Tincknell/Neel Jani
1’36.668

13
4
Hypercar
Floyd Vanwall Racing Group
Vanwall Vandervell 680
Esteban Guerrieri/Tristan Vautier/Joao Paulo de Oliveira
1’38.089

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